BEN MROTEK
(1884 • 1931)
FATAL ACCIDENT AT UTILITY PLANT
Ben Mrotek, an assistant fireman at the city utilities plant, was badly scalded and injured by inhaling steam at the plant Sunday evening. He is in a precarious condition at this writing at the hospital. Mrotek was passing through the fan room to inspect the oilers when a T blew and he was enveloped in live steam. He did not appear to be seriously injured and was able to walk out to the ambulance but at the hospital it was seen soon that he had internal injuries and he began to sink. This is the first serious personal injury at the plant since the city took over the first public utility almost twenty years ago.
The accident at the plant plunged the city into darkness about 10 pm and hit the theaters hard, as they had to dismiss their audiences after vainly waiting for light for a half hour or so. The lights were out for two hours. Physicians said shortly after the accident that Mr. Mrotek had breathed so much live steam that death was a question of only a few hours. His lungs were badly scalded. He was conscious up to almost the end and sank into death about 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. A brother, Andrew, twenty years ago and one day before this accident, met death in a local gas plant fire and another brother, Albert, was killed in a fall in the city a year ago.
Mrotek served on the Mexican border with the local national guard company and was overseas with the Red Arrow troops and participated in all their major engagements including the Argonne and Chateau Thierry. He was a member of the Eagles and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Mrotek was born in this city August 20, 1882. He was for some years in the engineering department on Great Lakes steamers. He never married.
The funeral was held today with Mass at St. Boniface Church and full military honors with interment at Calvary.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Constance Booth and Mrs. Frank Trastek and two brothers, Alex and Michael, all of this city.
Manitowoc Pilot, Wis., — Thurs., March 12, 1931
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BEN MROTEK
(1884 • 1931)
FATAL ACCIDENT AT UTILITY PLANT
Ben Mrotek, an assistant fireman at the city utilities plant, was badly scalded and injured by inhaling steam at the plant Sunday evening. He is in a precarious condition at this writing at the hospital. Mrotek was passing through the fan room to inspect the oilers when a T blew and he was enveloped in live steam. He did not appear to be seriously injured and was able to walk out to the ambulance but at the hospital it was seen soon that he had internal injuries and he began to sink. This is the first serious personal injury at the plant since the city took over the first public utility almost twenty years ago.
The accident at the plant plunged the city into darkness about 10 pm and hit the theaters hard, as they had to dismiss their audiences after vainly waiting for light for a half hour or so. The lights were out for two hours. Physicians said shortly after the accident that Mr. Mrotek had breathed so much live steam that death was a question of only a few hours. His lungs were badly scalded. He was conscious up to almost the end and sank into death about 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. A brother, Andrew, twenty years ago and one day before this accident, met death in a local gas plant fire and another brother, Albert, was killed in a fall in the city a year ago.
Mrotek served on the Mexican border with the local national guard company and was overseas with the Red Arrow troops and participated in all their major engagements including the Argonne and Chateau Thierry. He was a member of the Eagles and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Mrotek was born in this city August 20, 1882. He was for some years in the engineering department on Great Lakes steamers. He never married.
The funeral was held today with Mass at St. Boniface Church and full military honors with interment at Calvary.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Constance Booth and Mrs. Frank Trastek and two brothers, Alex and Michael, all of this city.
Manitowoc Pilot, Wis., — Thurs., March 12, 1931
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