Served as a private in Co. B., 68th New York Volunteer Infantry (referred to by themselves as the 1st Long Island Volunteers)
∼Distressing Accident
A most distressing accident occured at Haertel's brewery on Tuesday last by which Mr. Anton Smith, one of the workmen, was scalded most fearfully. Mr. Smith was standing on a platform some distance above the floor, adjusting some of the machinery in the brewing department, and losing his foot-hold he fell to the floor, striking an acqueduct which conveyed hot water from one tank to another, and severed it in such a manner that the boiling water was carried on to the lower portion of his person. He was so shocked by the fall, that, it is supposed, he could not help himself at all; but fortunately other workmen were in close proximity, and but a few seconds intervened before they were able to drag him away from under the volume of scalding water that was descending upon him. His burns were of such a character that there was but little hope, from the first, that he would survive them. He lingered along through intense suffering until Thursday morning, when he expired.
∼Distressing Accident
A most distressing accident occured at Haertel's brewery on Tuesday last by which Mr. Anton Smith, one of the workmen, was scalded most fearfully. Mr. Smith was standing on a platform some distance above the floor, adjusting some of the machinery in the brewing department, and losing his foot-hold he fell to the floor, striking an acqueduct which conveyed hot water from one tank to another, and severed it in such a manner that the boiling water was carried on to the lower portion of his person. He was so shocked by the fall, that, it is supposed, he could not help himself at all; but fortunately other workmen were in close proximity, and but a few seconds intervened before they were able to drag him away from under the volume of scalding water that was descending upon him. His burns were of such a character that there was but little hope, from the first, that he would survive them. He lingered along through intense suffering until Thursday morning, when he expired.
Served as a private in Co. B., 68th New York Volunteer Infantry (referred to by themselves as the 1st Long Island Volunteers)
∼Distressing Accident
A most distressing accident occured at Haertel's brewery on Tuesday last by which Mr. Anton Smith, one of the workmen, was scalded most fearfully. Mr. Smith was standing on a platform some distance above the floor, adjusting some of the machinery in the brewing department, and losing his foot-hold he fell to the floor, striking an acqueduct which conveyed hot water from one tank to another, and severed it in such a manner that the boiling water was carried on to the lower portion of his person. He was so shocked by the fall, that, it is supposed, he could not help himself at all; but fortunately other workmen were in close proximity, and but a few seconds intervened before they were able to drag him away from under the volume of scalding water that was descending upon him. His burns were of such a character that there was but little hope, from the first, that he would survive them. He lingered along through intense suffering until Thursday morning, when he expired.
∼Distressing Accident
A most distressing accident occured at Haertel's brewery on Tuesday last by which Mr. Anton Smith, one of the workmen, was scalded most fearfully. Mr. Smith was standing on a platform some distance above the floor, adjusting some of the machinery in the brewing department, and losing his foot-hold he fell to the floor, striking an acqueduct which conveyed hot water from one tank to another, and severed it in such a manner that the boiling water was carried on to the lower portion of his person. He was so shocked by the fall, that, it is supposed, he could not help himself at all; but fortunately other workmen were in close proximity, and but a few seconds intervened before they were able to drag him away from under the volume of scalding water that was descending upon him. His burns were of such a character that there was but little hope, from the first, that he would survive them. He lingered along through intense suffering until Thursday morning, when he expired.
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