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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 plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co. on Wednesday evening, leaves his wife, his parents, Martin and Mary (Cope) Mushlitz, of Hellertown; two daughters, Velma and Pauline, and one son, Edward; also two brothers and three sisters–Floyd, of Lower Saucon, Robert, Bingen; Mrs. Ernest Goldberg and Mrs. Lawrence Frey, both of Hellertown, and Miss Verna Mushlitz, at home. He was a member of Apple’s Luth
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