St. Louis Republic (Missouri)
6 April 1897
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IN A FLY WHEEL
Albert Craig's Misstep Caused Him Instant and Horrible Death.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Mexico, Mo., April 5 -- This morning at 6 o'clock Albert Craig of Centralia, Ill., was instantly killed in the Electric Light Power-House in this city. Young Craig, in company with A. J. Duputy of Indianapolis, Ind., came in from Kansas city this morning on a visit to his uncle, Morgan Day, chief engineer of the power-house in which he was killed. It being rather late which they got in they decided to make a bunk in the lighthouse.
This morning when awakened, young Craig, in attempting to reach the boiler-room, walked into a monster fly wheel, revolving 80 times a minute, and was carried to the basement and up again and thrown from the wheel at its highest point. He struck the brick wall of the building and fell to the floor dead. The remains will be interred here.
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