The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

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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