The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

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Curtiss McNutt, escaped without injury. Rollin McNutt, who was firing the boiler,
was instantly killed. Oliver Gravatt had his back broken, and died on the following:
day. The property loss was estimated at $2,500.
(195.) — A big boiler exploded on August 21st, in Franklin, Ind. John Dennis,,
the engineer, was caught under the falling debris and terribly burned all over the body.
He cannot recover. Martin Dennis, his father, was also badly scalded, but not fat%lly
so. One-third of the boiler, weighing about a ton, was blown over one hundred yards-
from the building. Immediately after the explosion the building caught lire and was.
totally destroyed, together with all the valuable machinery. The loss is estimated at
$25,000.
(196.) — A boiler exploded at Baird's foundry, Woodstock, Ont., on August 22d.
and Mr. R. T. Crawford was badly scalded.
(197.) — On August 22d, a boiler exploded in J. W. AVillett's mill in Bushnell,.
Mich. George Austin was instantly killed, and two others were seriously and perhaps:
fatally injured.
(198.) — A boiler explosion occurred on August 23d, near Napa, Cal. John Lands-
burger, the fireman, was blown 200 feet, and instantly killed.
(199.) — A boiler exploded on August 25th, on Lightship No. 46, which has beenstationed,
since July 31st, at the Wolf-Trap shoal, near Matthew's Courthouse, Va. The
engineer, James Scott, was killed, and another man was badly scalded.
(200.) — On August 26th, a boiler exploded at Adair, near Vinita, I. T. Dr. G. E.
Garrettson, and a man whose name we have not learned, were instantly killed.
(201.) — By a boiler explosion at Humerick, near Oakland, 111., on August 28th,.
George Noble was killed, and Alexander Litton and John Thomas were fatally injured.
(202.) — A boiler exploded on August 31st, in Langford, S. D. Austin Christian-
son, C. E. Christiansen, Louis Uptiman, and one other man, were badly scalded and.
bruised.
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The "John Bull" Train.
The Pennsjdvania Railroad Company has a very interesting exhil>it at the. World's-
Fair, and one of the most interesting things to be seen there is the old Stephenson loco-
motive, John Bull, of which venerable relic the Pennsylvania Company gives the fol-
lowing account
" The history of the locomotive dates back to a period when locomotion by steam
was in the earliest age of experimentalism. For several years previous to 1830 experiments
attended with more or less success had been made in England with locomotives
to be propelled by steam. In 1830 the Planet, constructed by George Stephenson, wasthe
best example of a machine of this character, and after witnessing a trial of its pow-
ers in 1830, Mr. Robert L. Stevens, the founder of the Camden and Amboy Railroad,
placed an order with Stephenson to build an engine on the same lines for shipment to-
this country. This engine, christened John Bull after its arrival in America, Avas com-
pleted in May, 1831, and shipped to Philadelphia, where it arrived in August of the
same year. It was then transshipped to Bordentown. The boiler and cylinders were in
place, but the other component parts were packed in boxes, and it was with the utmost
difficulty that they could be put together and adjusted by mechanics who had never
before seen a piece of mechanism of a similar character.