THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, Missouri, Friday, Jan. 28, 1927. ARTHUR WHITE HURT IN FALL IN PIT. Arthur White, a member of the pipe fitters' gang of National Lead Company, St. Francois, received painful burns about the hands, arms, feet and legs, Tuesday of this week when he slipped from a scaffold and fell into a pit of hot water near the power house. He was taken to St. Louis immediately, where he was placed in St. Luke's Hospital for treatment. While exceedingly painful, his injuries are not considered dangerous. The pit is one into which the sluiceway* from the boiler room discharges, and the water it contained registered about 140 degrees. White was employed on a scaffold above the pit and near the edge when he lost his balance in some manner and fell, slipping into the hot water. When he reached the hospital in St. Louis he was able to walk and help himself considerably, and surgeons hope for a speedy recovery. *A sluiceway is a man-made channel designed to re-direct excess water.