The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-21
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Drawn Down to His Death Sinking
tn "A noI Quieasand with q Fiam-
ing Xet0rt Underneath-A Rope
and Tackle Powerlesa TO save
suRoeated At Last.

| and Tackle P0werless 10 save
suRocated At Last.
New York sun.
In the fall of last year the Brooklyn
Sugar Refining Company completed It's
large refinery At the foot OF South Sec
! ond street, Brooklyn, E. D. Among the
workmen employed in the erection OF
The refinery was John Willen bscher, q
skilled sugsr-refnery hand. After the
refinery was got into operation, Presi-
dent Doscher gave Nillenbscher control
OF the ftter-house. Within the bare
walls ofthis house, rising from the un-
paved floor, TO the slated root, Is q great
iron skeleton that upholds the filters.
An endless elevator band fills the filters
with boue-b!ack. Through this the boil
ing 81 .sr percoIAtes, and is whlte1ed.
Pipes empty the bone-blsck inc great
vsts below the filters. The watts have
conical bottom. A. the point of the
cone is
A HOLE
About foot in diameter. The bone
black, which must Do returned as often
a. n Is used IN the filters. driboles down
through this hole into retort beneath.
As Il falls from the retort the elevator
band catches it and carries it up again to
the filters, This circulation OF The bone
biack il very slow, and one man beside
the engineers 81 the retorts may easily
give attention TO it.
A. about five o'clock on Friday after
neon Willenbacher entered the vat near
est South second street, then containing
about two tons CT bone-bl.ck, presum-
ably to quicken with his weight the g.
most imperccptible dribbllug. He must
have stamped his feet and Trey sank IN
the black mass. As be tried TO Ii: his
feet to get out he probably found him
self
DRAwE DOWN BY THE SUCTION
Of the moving mass, which WAS KEEP. a.
e heat Of $50 degrees. HIS struggles
probably added 70 the downward mo-
ton, and e, fireman entered to rake
his fire, WIllen bscher's terrible plight
became known. He had then sunk to
mis- throat Men ran from every part OF
the refinery and the enteavor 70 rescue
Wllien bscher WAS earnestly begun.
Nothing could stop the ceaseless down
ward auction Of the bone black, because
the hoe ST. the bottom Of the vat opened
into a Rotor: filed with tarce flames.
Even the few seconds that were spared
TO ne consideration OF this gave confirm
alton 10 " illenbaclers doom, for ne
sank until the lower part ot his lace was
hidden.
His comrades shouted cheering words
10 him, and threw pisuEs across tue sur
face OF the boQe-back, the 5rsVest ven
turing out upon them. They scattered
the bone black FROM about WIllen baCher's
shoulders, and srasping hun, tugged to
pull him cut, 5ut they could not Stir
him. He seeuet 10 De
UNCONSCIOUS
| From sutOcis on. A block wss hastily
rugged upon beam above the vat, and
eager men grs;pet tie tsc&le in their
| strong hands and pulled well together
| but thew did not move WIllen oacher.
The digging above the sinking man was
resumed, and the bone black was cleared
away down 10 his thighs. Then those
| who hauled with al their strength upon
the tackle raised Wilenbacher from the
| comeback. Kind hands laid him, limp
and UNCONSCIOUS, upon the p!anks. He
wss breathing family, ard comrsde
ran to summon physician; but while
ais fee. still sounded on the stairway,
| Willen bscher died. Wll!enbscher lived
at no. l4S Leonard street, Brooklyn, Z.
D. He leaves q wife and two children.