Olden Days: Hellertown Man Died in 1918 Steam 'Scalding' Accident
Est. Read Time: 2 mins The following news article appeared in the Jan. 4, 1918 edition of The Morning Call under the headline: “SCALDED TO DEATH IN HIS LOCOMOTIVE, Frightful Death of Stewart Mushlitz, of Hellertown, When Engine Upset.” In the early 1900s it wasn’t unusual for newspapers to graphically report on industrial and other types of accidents, sometimes in grisly detail. With Bethlehem Steel and other titans of industry operating in the area, the pages of these papers were regularly filled with such tales. Stewart Mushlitz*, the engineer who was killed at the Northampton coke p...
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