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Slag run-off from one of the open hearth furnaces of a steel mills, Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio. Slag is drawn off the furnace just before the molten steel is poured into ladles for ingotting (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Orome` said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Molten In The Dark, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• campfe said:

  Great photo of one of the spectacular views in a steel plant, molten metal. However this is of a cast of molten pig iron from a blast furnace, not the steel or slag from an open hearth furnace. The next photo is of a blast furnace cast as well.

Caption is erroneously permuted, should be "E. Youngstown -- Vigilantes under Oscar Diser, City Solicitor" In 1914, Oscar R. Diser of Youngstown (Ohio) was a State Representative and republican candidate for Congress, see The Mahoning dispatch., August 07, 1914, Image 4, with photo. He didn't win the election. in 1916 he formed a committee of safety and helped stop the rioting in East Youngtown (according to The Mahoning dispatch., January 21, 1916, Image 4, column 4). The Mahoning dispatch., January 07, 1916, Image 6 reported that attorney Oscar E. Diser had been elected solicitor of East Youngstown by the council of that municipality. news.nnyln.net/tupper-lake/tupper-lake-herald-1914-1915/t..., column 1 "TROOPS QUIET MOB" says that about half a dozen men fell when Diser ordered to fire in the mob. The fire started by rioting strikers laid large parts of the town in ruins, see the Bisbee daily review., January 14, 1916, Image 1.

Must have been a long day for the LOC transcriber!
See notes on Youngstown rioting under:

Thanks for sorting out; we'll update records.

Title still needs update.

Corrected in LoC catalog. Will investigate why Flickr didn't pick it up.