Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — BURNED ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

BURNED ALIVE.

Horrible Fate of a Gang of ‘Workmen In Carnegie’s Homestead Hill. Two men were killed and seven others injured at the Homestead steel-works of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at Homestead, Pa., Friday afternoon, by the boiling over of a ladle containing ten tons of molten steel. Three of the injured will die. About S o’clock a gang of nine men were engaged in the qpen hearth department, casting ingots. They had just filled two molds, when the metal in the ladle boiled over, scattering the molten steel in all directions. The unfortunate men were unable to get out of the pit in time to escape the awful bath, and all engaged at the furnace were horribly burned. Andrew Kebbler was thrown into the mold, in which there were about three inches of hot steel and he was literally roasted alive. Kebbler. was forty-two years of age and married. Nicholas Bowers, the pitman, aged twenty-four, was standing near Kebbler, and was so badly tamed that the flesh dropped from his bones. Be died in a few hour*. The clothing of William Fagan, Joseph Durkes and Isaac Lane was burned from their bodies. There sufferings are terrible, and no hopes are entertained of their recovery. The others—Stephen CMnst, Michael Drerito, John Dudes, and S. S. Schulte—were frightfully burned, but will recover. All are married except Lane. ’ . The cause of the accident is net known. It is supposed foreign gases generating in the ladle caused the metal to bed over, but this is only a surmise. The mill was not damaged.