ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday, April 14, 1937
Man Suffers Fatal Hurts in Cellar Solder Explosion
His skull was fractured when an explosion hurled a mass of cold solder out of a pail of boiling lead in the cellar of his home yesterday afternoon. Earl Armstrong, 45 [sic], of Honeoye Falls died in Strong Memorial Hospital last night.
Armstrong and Neil Sherman, 33, were working on a new pipeline from the center of Lehigh Street to the Armstrong residence, a nursing home for aged persons, when the accident happened.
A few minutes after Armstrong went into the cellar with a pot of lead, Sherman heard an explosion and rushed in to investigate. He found Armstrong lying on the floor, a deep gash extending from his jaw to the left ear.
The injured man's wife, Mrs. Clara [sic] Armstrong, who manages the nursing home as a trained nurse, stopped the flow of blood. Dr. Murray S. Bratt of Honeoye Falls and Dr. William Kob__ of Lima then attended the man and ordered his removal to the hospital where he died late last night.
Just how the accident happened was not determined but Sherman and Sheriff Deputy Stanley Edick, who investigated, theorized that Armstrong dropped the cold metal into the hot lead and the resultant combustion blasted particles at him and through windows and the floor above him.
Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday, April 14, 1937
Man Suffers Fatal Hurts in Cellar Solder Explosion
His skull was fractured when an explosion hurled a mass of cold solder out of a pail of boiling lead in the cellar of his home yesterday afternoon. Earl Armstrong, 45 [sic], of Honeoye Falls died in Strong Memorial Hospital last night.
Armstrong and Neil Sherman, 33, were working on a new pipeline from the center of Lehigh Street to the Armstrong residence, a nursing home for aged persons, when the accident happened.
A few minutes after Armstrong went into the cellar with a pot of lead, Sherman heard an explosion and rushed in to investigate. He found Armstrong lying on the floor, a deep gash extending from his jaw to the left ear.
The injured man's wife, Mrs. Clara [sic] Armstrong, who manages the nursing home as a trained nurse, stopped the flow of blood. Dr. Murray S. Bratt of Honeoye Falls and Dr. William Kob__ of Lima then attended the man and ordered his removal to the hospital where he died late last night.
Just how the accident happened was not determined but Sherman and Sheriff Deputy Stanley Edick, who investigated, theorized that Armstrong dropped the cold metal into the hot lead and the resultant combustion blasted particles at him and through windows and the floor above him.
ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday, April 14, 1937
Man Suffers Fatal Hurts in Cellar Solder Explosion
His skull was fractured when an explosion hurled a mass of cold solder out of a pail of boiling lead in the cellar of his home yesterday afternoon. Earl Armstrong, 45 [sic], of Honeoye Falls died in Strong Memorial Hospital last night.
Armstrong and Neil Sherman, 33, were working on a new pipeline from the center of Lehigh Street to the Armstrong residence, a nursing home for aged persons, when the accident happened.
A few minutes after Armstrong went into the cellar with a pot of lead, Sherman heard an explosion and rushed in to investigate. He found Armstrong lying on the floor, a deep gash extending from his jaw to the left ear.
The injured man's wife, Mrs. Clara [sic] Armstrong, who manages the nursing home as a trained nurse, stopped the flow of blood. Dr. Murray S. Bratt of Honeoye Falls and Dr. William Kob__ of Lima then attended the man and ordered his removal to the hospital where he died late last night.
Just how the accident happened was not determined but Sherman and Sheriff Deputy Stanley Edick, who investigated, theorized that Armstrong dropped the cold metal into the hot lead and the resultant combustion blasted particles at him and through windows and the floor above him.
Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday, April 14, 1937
Man Suffers Fatal Hurts in Cellar Solder Explosion
His skull was fractured when an explosion hurled a mass of cold solder out of a pail of boiling lead in the cellar of his home yesterday afternoon. Earl Armstrong, 45 [sic], of Honeoye Falls died in Strong Memorial Hospital last night.
Armstrong and Neil Sherman, 33, were working on a new pipeline from the center of Lehigh Street to the Armstrong residence, a nursing home for aged persons, when the accident happened.
A few minutes after Armstrong went into the cellar with a pot of lead, Sherman heard an explosion and rushed in to investigate. He found Armstrong lying on the floor, a deep gash extending from his jaw to the left ear.
The injured man's wife, Mrs. Clara [sic] Armstrong, who manages the nursing home as a trained nurse, stopped the flow of blood. Dr. Murray S. Bratt of Honeoye Falls and Dr. William Kob__ of Lima then attended the man and ordered his removal to the hospital where he died late last night.
Just how the accident happened was not determined but Sherman and Sheriff Deputy Stanley Edick, who investigated, theorized that Armstrong dropped the cold metal into the hot lead and the resultant combustion blasted particles at him and through windows and the floor above him.
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