Instant Death In Explosion

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Tragedy Occurred on Wiese Farm Southwest of Eldridge Sunday

Jamestown, N.D., Dec. 18—Emil F. Wiese, a prominent farmer living seven and one-half miles southwest of Eldridge, Stutsman county, was instantly killed at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in an attempt to thaw out a cap on a metal gasoline barrel with a blow torch. The intense heat from the torch exploded the cap, blowing his head from the lower jaw up. The body saturated with gasoline and horribly burned, was found a distance of 16 to 18 feet from the tank over which Weise was working. A widow and a five-months-old baby survive, she being prostrate over the tragedy.

Mrs. Wiese, hearing the explosion rushed to the scene to discovered the gruesome remains of her husband. She walked a distance of a mile and a half and notified neighboring farmers.

Beach Advance, 12/20/1916