Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-14
Il Dreadful Death.
Toledo (Ohio) Commercially

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Last Thursday morning, Jacob Weber. a
iaborer, elghty-five years of age, employed
at eraser & Brands brewery, on St. Ciair
street, met with singular and horrible ac-
cldent. At this season of the wear it is tha
custom of brewers to disinfect their cellars
and store-rooms with lime. Webher was en-
gagged in Stacking large bucketful of it,
and, having turned small amount of
water into the bucket, proceeded to add
more to it. That which had been
thrown IN had, in its action on the lime,
generated terrific heat, and, when the
second quantity of water was cast into the
receptacle, 1t was converted into steam in an
instant by heat more intense than thou
sand ovens. The rather large and heavy
amount of unslacked lime ON top served for
an instant to hold the steam in, but the re-
slstance only tended to make the explosion
which followed the more tearific. While
Weber was bending over the harm
less-looking pail of lime. preparing to
stir it. the entire contents of tho
bucket were suddenly blown upward with
awful force, cleaning out the pail almost ga
completely as if it had been emptied and
carefully washed. Some of the lime struck
the poor man in the face, while the rest was
blown against the ceiling with such violence
that 1t chung there in mass two inches
thick. 1t is beyond the power of the pen to
depict the agony which Weber endured from
the moment that he fell to the floor with his
eyes and ears full of lime.
and his whole face burned raw. To
have been scalded with compound 20
hot would have been terrible enough.
but to have the scalding material corrodine
poison was simply awful. Any one who has
ever dropped little lime in his eye can
| form very faint idea of what Weber suf
fered.
AS soon as the injured mans condition
was discovered, DR.. Chamberlin, the ooro-
ner, was summoned. He had been carried
to bed in the sleeping apartments of the
establishment, and lay there, his face pre-
senting CHASTITY spectacle when the physi-
clan arrived. His eyes were blown SO full of
lime that the doctor was obliged to pull
them apart-they had swollen shut-and
force the poisonous stuff out with an instru-
ment. Had the amount in each eve been
collected together, it would have made ball
OF lime as large as hickory nut. The faos
was so thoroughly cooked that in forcing
the eyes apart the skin and some of the flesh
would stick to the doctors fingers. The
ears were blown so full that tho lime had
become compact, and had to be broken
apart at the expense of a considerable OUTLAW
of strength before it could be taken out.
But, most sickening of all, the doctor
found, when he attempted to remove the
lime from the roots of the chin whiskers;
that the hairs almost dropped out, and would
not endure SO much as slight pull
The intiamed state of the eyes affected the
principal nerves leading to the brain, and
death was caused from Inflammation of that
organ. On Friday night Weber began to rave
like mailman. Five strong men could not
hold him in bed. Those who saw them
say they never witnessed such terrifying
scene. He was continually making efforts
to get out doors, where he said his tonpu.
and teeth were. ''Never did witness cast
! of delirium tremens that could be compared
to it, said the attendant to the Commercial
commissioner.
1t was not antil Saturday, late in the
afternoon, that the distracted man ceased
his rawlings. He suddenly Quilted down, and
the attendants supposed that he was better
At about o'clock DIR. Chamberlin called on
his patient, and was told that he was easier.
He went to the bedside, and, looking @
moment at the CHASTITY sight, turned to The
attendants, and startled them by saving,
"He is dead"