The Daily Dispatch

Two Men Burned Up with Molten Iron.
From the Lewistown (Pa.) True Democrat.

On Wednesday of last week, soon after the 1 o'clock whistle blew for the men to quit work at Freedom Iron and Steel works, the whistle blew an alarm. On reaching the cupola-room it was found that the platform upon which rested the supports of the bottom of the cupola which was in use, which at the time contained five tons of molten iron nearly ready to run, had broken, and that James A. Junkin, furnace-builder, and George Bearly, helper, both of this place, who were engaged in making repairs under the cupola, were caught in the plunging mass of molten iron and cinder, and terribly burned. Mr. Junkin ran out of the cupola-room, followed by Mr. Bearly, their clothes in flames. Some men at work in the rear of the engine-house first saw them, and did all they could to smother the flames and relieve them of their burning clothes. Physicians were sent for at once, and in the mean time everything was done that was possible to alleviate the sufferings of the injured men. They were removed to their homes during the afternoon, and Mr. Bearly, the surface whose body was burnt to a crisp almost from head to foot, died the same evening. Mr. Junkin, whose injuries were chiefly confined to his legs, from the hips down, suffered until Monday, when death ended his sufferings. Mr. Junkin was aged about fifty-two years, and leaves a family. Mr. Bearly was a son of Daniel Bearly, aged twenty-one, and unmarried. Mr. Junkin had taken out a life insurance policy for $5,000 only in February last.