The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

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I'kokkssok .1. Iliulinger, of tl»e Tocliiiol()ersons, it is reported,
were killed, and many more were injured. On May 17 a boiler exploded in the glucose
factory at Geneva, killing seven men, and completely wrecking the plant, which was
valued at $300,000. On May 19 (according to a Berlin dispatch) a locomotive boiler
exploded in Ilmenau, Saxe-Weimar, killing five persons instantly, and injuring a number
of others so badly that at last accounts eight of them were in a dying condition. A St.
Petersburg dispatch says that as the steamer Alfous, employed in the river trade on the
Volga, was approaching Romanov, on July 4, her boilers exploded, killing twenty-six:
passengers, among whom was General Petrushewski. The explosion tore the upper part
of the steamer to pieces, and the burning coals blown frorj the furnaces set fire to the
wreck. The boat burned to the water's ed