Here's the dangerous inventiveness of youth. Ruth The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, June 28, 1889 Disastrous Ingenuity 6/28/1889 Harry and William JESSER, 15 and 17 years old respectively, and possessing a mechanical turn of mind, were killed at Philadelphia, last Saturday, by the explosion of an old range boiler with which they were experimenting. they had connected it by lead pipe with a small engine and were preparing to turn the crank of the family ice cream freezer by motive power when the boiler blew up with tremendous power. Harry was thrown with great force against a fence and instantly killed. His legs and arms were broken, and one side of his head was horribly crushed. William was thrown further under a shed, and a flying brick evidently struck him in the head, fracturing the skull. Both his legs were frightfully crushed. He was taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he died in about an hour. Little henry KNIESS, who was watching the experiment from a shed, was cut under the eye, and Miss Flora KNIESS was severely scalded about the back. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT