For that much detail these days, you'd have to watch CSI.
Larry 2
--- Ruth Barton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, June 28, 1889
>
> Disastrous Ingenuity 6/28/1889
>
> Harry and William JESSER, 15 and 17 years old respectively, and possessing
> a mechanical turn of mind, were killed at Philadelphia, last Saturday, by
> the explosion of an old range boiler with which they were experimenting.
> they had connected it by lead pipe with a small engine and were preparing
> to turn the crank of the family ice cream freezer by motive power when the
> boiler blew up with tremendous power.
>
> Harry was thrown with great force against a fence and instantly killed.
> His legs and arms were broken, and one side of his head was horribly
> crushed.
>
> William was thrown further under a shed, and a flying brick evidently
> struck him in the head, fracturing the skull. Both his legs were
> frightfully crushed. He was taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he
> died in about an hour.
>
> Little henry KNIESS, who was watching the experiment from a shed, was cut
> under the eye, and Miss Flora KNIESS was severely scalded about the back.
>
> Transcribed by Ruth Barton
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> Ruth Barton
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> Dummerston, VT
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