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operatives in tlie mill at the time, and two of tliein were killed outriglit, and several
others were badly scalded. The mill was wrecked and the loss will In; licavy.
(154.) — The city of La Moure, S. D., was considerably shaken uj) on June 28th by
the explosion of a l)oilerin W. D. Haycock's Hour mill. The explosion occurred at the
noon liour, and nobody was injured.
(155.) — On June 29th a boiler exploded in P. F. Hancock's mill, near JefTerson,
Marion county, Te.x. One man was fatally hurt, and five others were injured more or
less severely. The macliinery, mill, and boiler house were totally demolished.
July, 1893.
(156.) — On July llth, a boiler exploded at William F. Saxton's place, at Leonard-
town, near Baltimore, Md. The hands were all at dinner, and nobody was injured; but
the boiler and machinery were destroyed, and fragments of them were blown all about.
(157.) — By a boiler explosion at Mungen, a town near Finlay, Ohio, John Clark
was killed. Clark was known familiarly throughout the oil region as "Hundred Foot
Clark."
(158.) — The boiler of one of Willis Elling's steaml)oats on Spirit Lake, Iowa, ex-
l)loded on July IGth. W"e did not learn of any fatalities. The loss was estimated at
$3,000.
(159.) — A boiler exploded in Towanda, Pa., on July 17tli, killing Andrew Benjamin
instantly, fatally injuring Ross Hatton, and severely burning and bruising a man
named Bennett. Another man, named McGovern, is missing, and at last accounts was
supposed to be buried in the ruins. After the explosion the buildings took fire and
were completely destroyed. The plant was owned by W. S. Golcharles, and the loss is
estimated at ,|25,000.
(160.) — On July 19th, a boiler exploded at Coalinga, Fresno Co., Cal. We have
not heard particulars. ,.
(161.) — A boiler exploded on July 20th, on the Fmnh Silva, a boat plying between.
Oakland and San Francisco, Cal. The accident happened while the Sih'a was on her-
first afternoon trip to Oakland, and when she had just entered the ship channel between
the north and south training walls. Clouds of steam poured out of the boiler room and
enveloped the vessel, and the few passengers that were aboard huddled together on the-
hurricane deck, expecting every second to be their last. Fortunately the explosion was^
but slight, and no one was injured. The Davie steamer Rosalie too^ the Silva's Tpas-
sengers off, and shortly afterward the Silva was towed to the Franklin Street wharf, in
Oakland, for repairs.
(162.) — A boiler belonging to Mr. J. R. Brown exploded in Redwood City, Cal., on
July 20th, and John Graham was fatally injured. (The cause of the explosion is said to-
have been defective material in the fire-sheets; though it is possible, of course, that these
sheets had been burned.)
(163.) — On July 20th, a boiler belonging to E. C. Ortega, at Belden, near Albuquerque,
N. M., exploded, and Carl Pittman, the engineer, was killed outright. Two.
or three other workmen were seriously but not faially injured.
(164.) — A big 200-horse-power boiler exploded in Waco, Texas, on July 22d. D.
F. Ford and Mingo Rankin were buried under a falling wall. When they were removed'
from the ruins it was found that both were severely scalded, and that both of Rankin's
legs were broken. It is expected that Ford will live, but Rankin will undoubtedly die.
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