Year: 1874

A MAN DELIBERATELY PLCNGES INTO AN


IRON FURNACE WHILE AT WHITE HEAT.


The Scranton pa Republican of the
18th says: Shortly before ! o'clock yestcr-
day morning the men Working ON the
night shift ut the blast furnace Of the
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company were
Mortified by one of the most shocking
cases of self-deStructiOn that have ever Oc-
CURED in this city. The victim of the sui
eide was a strange young man named
Theodore MarOne, who, while the work
men of No. furnace were enjoying a
short respite from their labOrs, took adj
vantage of their temporary absence and
plunged into the seething furnace, which
ut the time was at white hegt. His cries
attracted the attention Of one Of the work
men named Duffy, who, together with his.
companions, ran to the furnace and looked
down only to see the unfortunate MarOne
gyrating amid the liquid fire, and waving
his haEds and feet in the most intense
agony. A long-handled shovel was lower
ed TO him, but he was unconscious of its
presence. One of the men ran immediate
ly and stopped the blast, but human aid
was of no avail to save the unfortunate
man In the furnace, and ne was dragged up
as quickly as possible by large hook, a
chafrcd, disfigured aid unrccOgniZable
mass. He could not have been IN the fur
mace above few minutes. is his first Shrill
cry was heard by the wOrkmeh who hast
ened to his assistance, but the intense heat
of the place was sufficient to destroy life if
he had not been there more than Il second.
He was conveyed to Mr.. Raub'S undertake
ing establishment, where Il large box had
to be constructed to inclOse his remains.
His knees and elbows We're contracted
and so rigid that it was impossible to
straightefI them. He WIS Inferred mt Dun
more Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The
sequel of the suicide goes to show that the
rash act was prcmeditated. Theodore
MarOne was native of POmarn, East
Prussia, where his father occupied splen-
did position, as professor in one OF the
gvmnasiumS or schools OF the place, in
which Theodore was also employed as Il
teacher. He was subsequently engaged in
the war that occurred in 1866 between
Prussia and Austria, and cmigrated to this
country about four years ago. He was
then twenty-five wears of age - being
twenty-hine ut his death-afld might have
done well but for the disSolnte habits
which beset him and reduced him to Il
state of abject misery. He fOttnd work in
the employ of the Oxford Iron Company
as a common labOrcr, and often at his daily
toll, when comparing his position with
what he was at home, he wept in presence
of his tcllOw-wOrkmen, among whom was
a man named Nearle. at present in this
city. These fits of dependency had ter
rible effect upon him, and his friends feared
he would lose his reason while suffering
from one of them. He came to Scranton
on Tuesday last, and found shelter at the
Center street lookup. While there he at
tempted to take his life by heating poker
red-hOt in the stove and placing it TO his
neck to destroy the carotid artery, when
he was detected by one of the officers. He
lay around the blast-furnace during the
evening prior to his destruction in cOnSe-
quence of some men being at work there
with whom he was acquainted at the Ok
ford iron mines.