The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-13
FIVE MEN BURNED
sY z VERY! PECULIAR CASUALTY,
All Partially i,Jsrsd, aud Gao ot Two vsry So
iioa.iy -E,e,pinxt Gas fron, the Nav
Pips on Twelfth Street Accidentally y
Il : Isnisss with Dl'Astrous Eject. lfl5

4 About half.past nine O'Clock yesterday
forenoon a peculiar and distressing accident
occurred on Twelfth street near the Court
House, by which i've Of the lAborers epssgsd
In laying the nav city gas mainiwere shock.
ipgly burned, ono or two Of them receiving.
Injuries Of dangerous character. The gas
had been lot 10 the pipe at the works to test
the Joints before the trench was filled up
with earth. Tde open end OF ths pipe wns
firmly In Its position. 1tis usual TO allow
tho pressure to remain on for Ave minutes,
and this wa, done at this test. The men sun.
posed that the time had elapsed, and tie
plug was removed, This act was apparently
simultaneous with the turning OIL st the rus
from the pipes, and OF course more or l,s.
gas was left In tue MAN,, and enough OF an
impstus was given this 10 forcs q quantity
out at the end Of tho pips when 1t was
opened. A strong current OF air was blow.
ipg, and some Of the escaping gsB was car
ried along the trench distance OF thirty fsei
10 where 10 plumber was repairing d lead
water p'pa: His lamp iguited thu gsv, and
the flame flashed along the trench and sat
tivs To- the gas at the end Of the pipe, which
blszsd up several feet into the air, 2}gIl9ss
Around the end Of the pips were mum.
Der OF the worknon. and others were scatter
cd along from the end Of tue p'pa for several
yards toward the origin OF the Il .ma, Fiye OF
hem were more or les burned by The
tl'me, which lasted probably miHr,,c or a
minuta and halls The Injured men are ~
Z ALrAHD THOMAS. assistant blacksmith at the
works, badly burned about the face ant head
and on ths hsndi; lives on MpCollooh street,
MILrs BURKE, lsbofer, also psinfully burn.
ed about. the head; livts at % Twenty. sey.
enth street Z Y u z. 4 rs (. I'M 'ti.6l5
WILLIAM JERpo, a lamo man, face, n. ok
and hands burned; lives In the Green Row"
near the Top Mil. VS. IS 5, I5l;sl.
WALKER and CYRus PRYoH, brothers. color.
ed, formsr slightly burned aud latter terrib y
soorched on the back, aud hair burned Of;
both live on L fl atrsst, south Of Tenth. "A 3
Thomas, Burke acd Cyrus Pryor were m ost
SERIOUSLY Injured. Thomas was carried In to
Or. A. +. sulel's office, and Drs. Wilson ar d
stiiel dressed bis burns. DE-. Wilson said
last evening that The exact extent OF his In
iuries cou d not yet be told but he did mo-,
think they would prove fatal. DR., D,ckey
attended to the othsr injured men. Il. ha,
no fear OF fatal result lin any OF the o,ses,
Cyrus Pryor received his IL juries in nobly
rescuing Jer.o from the flaming trench. Blu.
Tor his heroic el1rts To save liz fellow la.
borer's life he would hays escaped compare.
lively uninjured. & 32,if, - r
The burned men we're all removed To their
homes, and everything was done for them
that could 4meliorate their scfrerincs. {, M
blame for tho accident can justly he st.ribu-
| ted to anyone. But for peculiar combina.
ton OF circumstances 1t could not have &C.
CURED. Any careful man would not have
hssitated to risk1 his safety at tho mouth oil
the PIPE at the time, nor could the mishap
have been provided against, Ia d, j I5.S-,i