Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — Fell Into Molten Lead. [ARTICLE]

Fell Into Molten Lead.

About 6 o’clock Thursday night in the Delamater iron foundry at New York six men were engaged in casti og a large cylinder. The mould was about twenty feet in diameter and five feet deep. A board was hi 1 across it and the wortmen took up an enormous ladle of mol tea iron and walked out upon tbe plank with it. Thefrai'support brokeand the‘six men were precipitated into the mould, together with the ladle and the molten iron. Peter Barton and J. B. Laurie were so fearfully burned that they c innot survive, and the other four were also burned, two of them very seriously.