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: 16^4 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [XOVEMLER, Inspectors' Report. July, 1893. During this mouth our inspectors made G.413 inspection trips, visited 10,557 boilers, inspected 7,711 botli internally and externally, and subjected 671 to hydrostatic pressure. The whole number of defects reported reached 11,138, of which 1,039 were eonsidered dangerous; 58 boilers were regarded unsafe for further use. Our usual summary is given below Nature of Defects. Cases of deposit of sediment, Cases of incrustation and scale. Cases of internal grooving, - - - - Cases of internal corrosion, - - . - Cases of external corrosion, - - - - Broken and loose braces and .... stays, - Settings defective, - - - - - Furnaces .... out of shape, Fractured plates, . . . - - - Burned plates, Blistered plates, . . . - . Cases of defective riveting, - - - Defective heads, . . . . . Serious leakage around .... tube ends, .. Serious leakage at seams, . . - Defective water-gauges, Defective blow-offs, - - - - - Cases of deficiency of water. Safety-valves overloaded, . . . - Safety-valves defective in construction. Pressure gauges defective, . . . - Boilers without -„---pressure gauges, Unclassified defects, - - - - Total, Vhole Number.
1893.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. * -155 liis injuries were not considered danjjfcrous. The tug Hubert II. Cook towed the Elfrida to Plattsburgh, where the injured men were cared for. Dr. Wel>lj was not on board. (205.) — A boiler exploded in Galesville, near Monticello, III., on September 3d. Tiie fireman, S. D. Dukes, had just fired it up, and had left it for Wcw moments. No person was luirt. (20G.) — While D. A. Gardner was at work on the boiler in liis foundry in Ph-mouth, Wis., on September 5th, the boiler exploded and Mr. Gardner was badly scalded. One of his workmen, Fred Bj^erstead, was also quite seriously hurt. (207.) — On September 5th a boiler exploded at Hart's Creek, Lincoln county. West Virginia, in Brumfield's mill. John IL Boyd was instantly killed. Mrs. Brum- field, who happened to be near by, received injuries from which she afterwards died, aud six other ])ersons were badly injured. (Hart's Creek is the place where the mur- ders in the famous Brumfield-]\IcCoy feud took i)lace, and Mrs. Brumfield was one of the persons shot in ambush during the feud.) (208.) — A boiler explosion occurred on September 5th, at Highland Park, near Detroit, j\Iich. John Roberts, the engineer, was instantly killed, and his body was blown through a board fence fifty feet away. August Krohn, a boy 12 years old, was blown fully a hundred feet, and at latest accounts he was dying. Arthur Hamil- ton, an employe, was knocked senseless, and a Mr. Filmore was badly Iiurt al)Out the hips. (209.) — A boiler exploded on September 7th, near Union City, Ind. Charles Lam- bert, the engineer, was badly scalded, so that he died a few hours later. Albert Siphe had his collar bone and two ribs broken, and was also injured internally. It is thought that he may die. (210.) — A boiler exploded at Devil's Lake, X. D., on September 12, killing En- gineer Gustave T. Fleck instantly. Edward Walters was fatally injured, and died soon afterwards. A later account says that one of the injured men, John Hathaway, has also since died. George Wolf was so badly hurt that he was not expected to live. [It is said that this boiler was condemned a year ago by the state inspector.— Ed.] (211.) — On September 12th, a boiler exploded in East St. Louis, Mo., fatally scald- ing the engineer, Louis Laux, and severely injuring the fireman, James Smith. (212.) — By the explosion of a boiler near Hopkinsville, Ky., on September 13th, Nathaniel McKee was torn to pieces and instantly killed. Ernest Haynes was fatally injured, and James Crutchfield was terribly burned. Two otlier men were also badly hurt. (213.) — A boiler explosion took place September 13th, on the steam yacht Alegra, owned by Colonel S. Van Rensselaer Cruger, wliile she was on Long Island Sound, con- veying the owner and Mrs. Cruger to their summer home. James Gill, the fireman, was instantly killed, and D. E. Barrett, the engineer, was badly scalded aud burned. Mr. and Mrs. Cruger escaped injury. The Alegra was disabled, and had to be taken in tow by the Hehetia, a steam yacht owned by C. Oliver Iselin, who is also one of the owners of the cup defender, Vigilant. At the time of the ex])losion the Alegra and Helvetia were racing. The Alegra is 76 feet long, 10 feet beam, and 3 feet 6 inches draught. She is equipped with a Seabury triple expansion engine, aud a safety water- tube boiler. She met with an accident on August 28, 1891, when an elbow of the
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