The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-30
SUDDEN DEATH
OF WIN, Lodge, Through an Explosion
at the Norway Tack Fnctory Yesterday
Morning.

OF WIN. Lodge. Through an Explosion
at the Norway Taek Factory Yesterday
Morning.
A terrible accident took place ct the
Norway Tack Factory about o'clock yes.
terday morning, by which a considerable
loss Of money was caused to the company,
and VIM. Lodge, the engineer, lost his
life. The circumstances Of the accident
are about as follows: Lodge, the engineer,
had been at work for some time getting up
steam against the hour Of going to work, z
O'Clock, and when that hour arrived was
about ready to begin. About Ave minutes
before I be tried his machinery and Lad
started the engine, which the opera.
tives noticed, but almost immedl'
ately stopped 1t again, which be-
ing an unusual. proceeding caused little
remark: and Charley Davis, the foreman
started to the engine.room to ascertain the
reason. Mr.. Davis, however, did not go
clear down stairs as he could see Mr.:
Lodge standing at the steam throttle, and
calling To him asked what was the matter.
"Oh nothing, the fsn.belt Is of and | had
to sop" was the reply satisfactory to Mr..
Davis, who turned to enter the factory
room again when he heard dull, heavy
explosion, aud almost Immediately there
was rush OF escaping steam Into the
room. Calling 10 his men to get out as
best they could, Mr.. Davis made bis way
10 the boiler and engine rooms below.
Here torn up condition Of things at.
tracted his attention, and he could hear
the Rroans and cries OF come one In great
pain, and going forward into the engine
room he found Mr.. Lodge, the engineer,
living In the pit In which the fly wheel re.
wolves, with bis head scarcely above the
water which filled the pit, and which,
horrible 10 tell, was boiling and cooking
the unfortunate man. Immediate assist.
ance was at hand and the sufferer was
taken from the pit, and as soon as posi-
bic thereafter removed to his home on
Eighteenth street, beyond Wood, where
IDrs. Baird and Hoge attended him: A
superficial examination was made OF nv
body, when Il was found that he was 1T
orally boiled, the flesh readily and easily,
peeling from his breast, stomach and
limbs, while he had also inhaled the es'
Gaping steam, and the interior OF MS
mouth aud throat were badly scalded.
His left arm was broken near the elbow,
three or four deep and serious scalp
wounds were on his head, and deep and
deadly scar marked his throat from jaw
bone to iawbone-all the result OF his col:
Ilision with the fly wheel when he had
been hurled from his post at the throttle
by the force OF the explosion.
IfNIr. Lodge asthrown from the point
at which he was last seen by Mr.. Davis he
was carried distance of at least thirteen
feet. Fortunately the fly wheel was not
In motion at the time or the body OF Mr..
Lodge would have been ground into an
unrecognizable mass Of flesh, but the
giving wayof the machinery stopped the
wheel and this calamity was thus averted.
It was Immediately ascertained by the
physicians that the death OF Mr.. Lodge
would be only question Of a few hours
and to alleviate his terrible sutterings
anesthetics were given him, and at 10
o'clock death relieved him. 40
Mr.. Lodge was about thirty.eight or
forty years OF age and had resided in
and about the city all his life, having been
an employee Of the Bodley Brothers, Swee-
ney 1 Son, and of the Tack company for the
last twenty or twenty-five years. He was
a man of good habits, valuable mechanic
generally and good machinist. He leaves
a wife and three children, in only moder-
ate circumstances.