The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

^82 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [December,
that the other men "had a chance to recover." All the injured men were scalded by
steam and water.
(231.) — A boiler exploded in Peel county, Ontario, on October 17th. A Mr.
Brownlee and two other men were badly scalded, but all three will recover.
(232.) — One of the battery of seven boilers in the Yorktown colliery, near Hazleton,
Pa., exploded on October 18th. It parted at the middle, and the ends were biown
in opposite directions. James Hurley, the watchman, was apprised of the explosion by
a boiler head crashing into his shanty. He was not hurt, but he had a very narrow escape.
The other end of the boiler shot into a culm pile and was buried almost out of sight.
The boiler house was wrecked, and work at the colliery was suspended for some days.
(333.) — On October 19th, a boiler exploded in Spokane, Wash. Mrs. John Beam,
H. Holland, Rose Turner, and Miss Azee were killed. Next to the building in which
the explosion occurred was a book store owned by Henry Friese. Friese was waiting on
some customers when the explosion took place, and a wall fell into the store and buried
him, and three other people. Friese was carried out by a fireman, badly wounded.
Sidney Smith, who was in the book store, w^as taken out, badly injured. He may die.
(234.) — The steamer Ben Wood oi the Ella Layman Towboat Co., was disabled at
Charleston, "VV. Va., on October 20th, by the bursting of a flue in her boiler. Joel Nich-
ols w^as fatally scalded, and two others were badly hurt.
(235.) — A boiler exploded on October 21st, near Abbeville, S. C. James Perrin
was killed, and two other men were injured.
(236.) — On October 22d, a locomotive boiler exploded near Birmingham, Ala.,
instantly killing Engineer William Mills and Fireman J. W. Buchanan. Mills' body was
blown through the roof of a residence 300 yards away, and Buchanan's body was blown
200 yards in another direction. The locomotive, which was just taken from the shop,
was totally wrecked.
(237.) _ One of the boilers of the steamer Bellevue exploded on October 22d, while
she was lying at the Ludlow street landing in Cincinnati, Ohio. Reuben Simons was
fatally hurt, and William Lightbody, Perry Redman, and Capt. W. F. Rose, were in-
jured. An unknown woman, who was on the boat, was also injured.
(238.) — A locomotive boiler exploded on October 22d, at Raysville, near Chillicothe,
Ohio. It was drawing a west-bound express train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad, and at the time of the accident it was running at 50 miles an hour. The
locomotive was blown to pieces, and the baggage car left the track and plunged down
a twenty-foot embankment. The baggage-master was stunned by the shock, and on re-
covering consciousness he found himself in a closet, with the door closed, and baggage
piled up against it. He was not seriously hurt, however, and after a time he succeeded
in releasing himself. Engineer F. M. Arnold and Fireman S. S. Shields had a wonder-
ful escape from death. They received only a few scratches. All the glass in the three
passenger cars was broken, and the passengers were badly frightened, and severely
shaken up.
(239.) — A boiler exploded in Rev. E. J. Prendergast's residence, in Philadelphia,
Pa., on October 23d. A servant girl had a narrow escape from injury. The damage to
property was slight.
(240.)— A boiler exploded on October 23d, in the Warren Manufacturing Go's,
factory at Warren, near Baltimore, Md. George Stifler, a fireman, was killed. The roof
of the boiler house was blown off.