Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1901 — More About Lute Mallatt’s Death. [ARTICLE]

More About Lute Mallatt’s Death.

The following dispatch in today’s Chicago Inter Ocean gives further particulars of the accident at Watseka, 111., whereby D. L. Mallatt, formerly of Fair Oaks, lost his life: Watseka, 111., Jan. 3. —Bishop’s mill, one of the important landmarks of Watseka, controlled by Richards & Spohrle under the Pure Food Milling company, was wrecked today by an exploding boiler. John Spohrle, one of the proprietors, and Lute the were instantly killed, and Era Jones, miller, is slightly injured. The boiler was thrown 200 feet, striking the wall of Gard’s hardware store and tearing through the building. Scarcely a whole window remainds in the block adjacent. Both of <he dead men have families.