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Two Men Instantly Killed

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
March
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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flïTSBURu, Alaren 4 - By the explosión oL a tank oí sulphuric acid at McKoesport two meu were iustantly killed and two injured. The killed are: W. H. Morgan and William Nill; the injured, William Laveete and Mike Sovoreitch. The three flrst namedwere employés of the National Tube works and wei e engaged in transforriug a caridad of sulphuric acid to a tank inside the works. Suddenly the tank exploded and the meu were hurled many feet. Nill was terribly mangled and died instantly and Morgau had lils neck broken. Laveete was thrown twenty feet and seriously injured. The head of the tank, weighing ,',000 pounds, was blown through the roof of the works and alighted on the roof of a Hungmian boartling house neaiby. Mike iioveritch was sleeping in an upstairs room and when the huge pieco of metal crushed tlirouh the roof a piece of plastering struck him on the head, inÜicting adeep wound. Xo oause lor the explosión is assiirnud.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News