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near Charlottesville, Va. The proprietor was fatally injured, and John Adams, David
Sloan, and William Burton were seriously
destroyed.
burned. The building and machinery were
(126.)— A boiler exploded, on April 17th, at New Westminster, B. C, on the
river steamer Ramona, while she was en route from New Westminster to Fort Langley,
on the Fraser river. Mrs. H. M. Morrison, Mrs. Bailey, John Mack, and Henry Phipps
were killed, Richard Power and James Maynard were fatally burned, and Victor
"No well and four Indians were also seriously injured. The Ramona, which was valued
at $25,000, was completely wrecked.
(127.)— By the explosion, on April 18th, of the front engine of a double -header
freight train on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad, at Cassville, fifteen miles south of
Peru, Ind,, engineer E. A. Redmond and fireman John Bender of the first engine were
badly cut and scalded, and engineer Dodds and fireman Wallick of the second engine,
Brakeman Otto Warder and Conductor Odem were seriously injured. Both locomotives
were wrecked and fifteen cars were piled on top of them.
(128.)— On April 20th a boiler exploded in the Jersey Central Pumping Station, at
Bethlehem, Pa. The building was blown away, but there was no loss of life. The
destroyed property w T as valued at $5,000.
(129.)— A hot-water boiler exploded, on April 21st, in T. O. Ray's barber shop, at
Piano, Texas. No serious damage was done, and no person was injured.
(130.)— On April 23d a boiler exploded at Cula, Monongalia county, W. Va.
Henry Wilson was scalded to death.
(131.)— On April 26th a boiler exploded in Haynes & Whitaker's sugar of milk
factory, at Antwerp, near Watertown, N. Y. Considerable damage was done, but we
do not understand that anybody was injured.
(132.)— A boiler exploded, on April 26th, in the fat-rendering establishment of
William Burtchall, near Philadelphia, Pa. Nobody was injured, and the property loss
was small.
(133.)— On April 29th a boiler exploded at the works of the Seattle and King
County Oil Company, near Seattle, Wash. The explosion caused the caving in of a
shaft, which resulted in the death of Augustus Twombly.
TnE Society of German Engineers proposes to issue an English-German-French dictionary
of technical terms; and, in order to make it as valuable as possible, the Society
desires to secure the co-operation of numerous foreign correspondents, who would be
likely to know most of the words that ought to be included. Several collaborators in
each line of industry would be desirable. The work is a most worthy one, and we wish
it every success. There is a need for just such a book; for, although there are a num-
ber of tri-lingual lexicons to be had already, with technical terms included, the progress
of industry has been so great in recent times that most of them are practically obsolete.
If we understand the plans of the present project correctly, the lexicon now projected is
to bo much more extensive than anything that has been heretofore attempted. Those
who may be willing to co-operate in the work are requested to address the editor, as fol-
lows : Editor of the Technolexicon, Dorotheeustrasse 49, Berlin (N. W. 7), Germany.