The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

166 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [November,
boiler blew out, and Engineer James Shaw and Fireman James T. Haines were severely
scalded. Another accident of a similar character occurred last summer, but nobody
happened to be injured that time. Extensive repairs were necessary, however.
(214.) — A boiler exploded on September 14th, in the town of Elba, near Columbus,
Wis. Eben^ Owens was instantly killed and William Pritchards was somewhat
injured. The boiler was blown more than 300 feet. The explosion occurred during
the noon hour, or the list of killed and injured would undoubtedly have been greater.
(215.) — On September loth, a boiler exploded in a sugar house on the Irion Plan-
tation, owned by Mr. E. Desobry, near Plaquemiue, Mexico. A man named Stafford,
who was about 100 feet away from the boiler, was killed. Peter Bright was seriously
injured.
(216.) — A boiler exploded on September 14th, at Loyoma, just across the Ohio
river from Gallipolis, Ohio. Engineer Jones and three other men were killed outright,
(217.) — A fearful boiler explosion occurred on September 18th, near Whittier,
Swain county. North Carolina. Richard Nichols, James Kelley, Benjamin McMahan,
Gates McMahan, Henry Smith, and Jesse Gunter, were instantly killed, their bodies being
blown to fragments. In fact, every man about the mill was instantly killed, and
the building was torn to atoms. It is said that this is the largest number of deaths
that has resulted from any one accident in this part of the State since 1883. (In that
year 26 men were drowned at the convict camps near the scene of the present disaster.)
(218.) — A boiler exploded on September 18th, at the Temple furnaces, near
Reading, Pa. Nathaniel Hawkins, the engineer, was badly scalded. William Bosler
was struck by fragments of the boiler and fatally injured, and George Bosler, his
father, was badly cut about the face.
(219.) — A battery of boilers exploded at the works of the Allegheny Salt Company,
near Pittsburg, Pa., on September 22d. The roof of the boiler house was blown
off, and the sides of the building next the street were blown out. Fortunately no
person was injured, but it is believed that the damage to property will amount to
several thousand dollars.
(220.) — A locomotive boiler exploded at Kingsbury, lud., on September 22d, as
the result of a collision between a passenger train and a freight train, on the new exten-
sion of the Wabash railroad.
(221.) — On September 23d a boiler exploded in the brick and tile factory at Jef-
ferson, Iowa. The explosion set fire to the building, and between explosion and fire
the factory was totally destroyed. Loss about $4,000.
(222.) — A boiler exploded on September 28d, at the Connelly gas works, in New
Castle, Pa. The building was demolished and a number of employes were injured.
(223.) —On September 26th, a boiler exploded in Powell & Howard's mill at Bidwell,
near Gallipolis, Ohio. The mill was completely wrecked, and David Moffett and
Amos Clark Avere fatally injured.
Later advices concerning the boiler explosion off the coast of Japan, noted in our
last issue, give the following facts: "The steamship Wayo Maru w-as on her way to
Anamizu on August 24th, when her boiler exploded, causing the vessel to sink. Eighty
passengers are missing."