Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-02-18

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FRIGmTFUL CAsUALrY.-The drownii g
on thursday last OF Rose D,tcheck,
Bohemian girl. in boiling va: in one
OF the mills of the Cleveland, Ohio,
Paper, Company is Que OF the most tel
rble accidents ever put on record. The
vat is 10 feet in diameter, s feet long
and feet high. In it was about i've
feet of boiling water, made caustic 10y a
preparation of soda In this it was the
custom TO cast refuse newspapers
through an opening in the floor of tie
second story of the building for the
purpose OF soaking off the printers ink
prior to remaking the material into pa
per- Rose came to the mill as usual.
Her work was TO carry the old newspa-
pers from one room into another and
throw them down near the opening in
the floor. Another girl would stand
near by and push them down the hole
into the vat below filled with the scald-
ing fluid. The girl who performed this
latter operation had not got to work
and accordingly Rose did not com
mence her work until about 7:l5 a. M
At that time the man whose duty it
was 10 stand upon ladder beside The
vat on the first floor, remarked that she
might commence operations. There
upon he went below, and after n lapse
of FIVE or ten minutes took his position
beside the tub. AS he did SO he
noticed gentle splashing sound, and
supposiDg it TO be rat, called up thro
the apeture that the persons there
should be more careful about letting
things get into the tub. lie then
proceeded TO stir up the papers, and as
be did SO the paddle which he uses
struck the submerged body. AS soon
as possible the body was taken out, bot
il was found TO be literally cooked
through. 1t is supposed that she had
been in :he fluid from i've 10 ten min
utes. Much OF the skin upon the par
boiled surface OF the body had peeled
off and the blood clotted her mouth
aud nostrils. The coroner rendered e
verdict of accidental death by drowning
ard scaldlng.
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