John McNally

ACCIDENTLY BURNED.

ROSS CROZIER WILL LOSE AN EYE

WHILE

An Intoxicated Man is Nearly Burned

to Death at the Boldt Glass Works.

Saturday evening about four o'clock a deplorable accident occurred at the Wysor, Haines & Patterson machine shops on south Mulberry street. Roscoe Crozier is employed in the molding room where he was at work Saturday and while in the act of pouring the moulten metal some of it spilled on the ground and exploded. The bits of iron flew in every direction. One piece hit Crozier in the left eye causing agonizing pain for some time and until it was removed by a fellow-workman. When removed the piece of iron had become cold. This accident will cost the young man an eye.

For some time and until recently John McNally, a young man, was employed as a blower at the Hemingray glass-factory. Saturday he arrived in Muncie from the east en-route to Marion to work in a factory. He stopped off here to see old friends and with several other young men imbibed too freely and became intoxicated. The party went to the Muncie glass Company's factory in Avondale yesterday, all in anything but a sober condition. In some way McNally's clothes caught fire from one of the furnaces and before the fire could be extinguished the man was horribly burned about the breast, face, and hands. He was taken to the city hospital where his condition was found to be very serious but not necessarily fatal. The skin came off of the breast and shoulders and there are several holes half an inch deep and as large as a penny burned in his breast.