The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

-120 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [August,
A large amount of valuable macbiuery was destroyed, and it is believed that the loss
will amount to about $20,000. A neighboring cotton gin was also damaged to the ex-
tent of about $2,000.
(IGo.)— A boiler in Kenny & Newgard's mill in Hawarden, Iowa, exploded on July
24tli, tearing away the west end of the building and seriously injuring Frank Chapman,
the engineer. Chapman was sitting just outside the engine room door when the "ex-
plosion occurred, and was carried three rods away. His face was literally filled with
dirt and gravel, and he will probably be disfigured for life. The boiler and engine are
complete wrecks, and the machinery throughout the mill is sprung out of shape.
(106.) — On July 26th, two big boilers exploded in Belleville, 111., tearing the
boiler-house to fragments, and badly wrecking part of the main building. Masonry and
heavy beams were hurled a distance of more than 250 feet. As the explosion occurred
in the early morning, nobody was about except the watchman, and he, being in a remote
part of the building, escaped injury. Several bricks were blown into an open window-
in Charles Knoebel's house, one of them striking his daughter, who was lying in bed,
and badly bruising her cheek. Otherwise, no one was injured. The loss is estimated
at $20,000.
(IG7.) — A boiler exploded on July 26th, in J. ]M. Weatherwax's mill, in Aberdeen,
Wash. The fireman, William Welsh, was instantly killed. His body was blown
through an opening 14 inches square, but, strange to say, was neither bruised nor
scratched in the passage. Frank Lewis, Jacob Kaiser, and James Cowden were also
seriously injured.
(168.) — A boiler explosion occurred on July 26th, near Salem, Crittenden Co., Ky.
John Dambron and George Dambron were instantly killed, and William Dambron was
frightfully injured. His arm was torn off, and he is likely to die.
(169.) — By a boiler explosion in San Rafael valley. Lower California, on July 26th,
Mr. L. Spangler, a prominent American rancher, was instantly killed. Being tempor-
arily without an engineer, he had undertaken to run the boiler himself.
(170.) — A boiler exploded in Raleigh, N. C, on July 28th. The engineer and
fireman were blown a considerable distance, but neither was seriously injured.
(171.) — A boiler exploded on July 29th, at Sistersville, near Wheeling. W. Va.,
and J. H. Rodehaver was burned in a shocking manner about the face and body. At
last accounts it was not known whether he would live or not.
(172 )_A_ boiler exploded on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., on July 31. We did not
learn of any fatalities in connection with it.
(173.) — A boiler exploded on July 31st at Newark, Ohio. John Kittle, James
Bowers, William Bell, Sidney Bell, and Norman Sillers were killed, and Joseph Shipp,
Thomas Edmunds, Albert Kittle, and Luther Sillers were badly hurt. Shipp died the
following day, but it is believed that the other injured persons will recover. Two
horses belonging to Peter Bell were also killed.
Napoleon I. was a fatalist, and among his superstitions was a firmly rooted notion
that places and persons whose names b^gan with the letter M possessed immense power
over his fortunes for good or for evil. An ingenious Frenchman, evidently inclined to
believe that there was some good ground for Napoleon's faith, makes up the following
strange list of M's: Six Marshals—Mussena, Mortier, Marmont, IMacdonald, Murat, and
Moncey—without counting twenty-six division generals. Moreau betrayed him. Mar-