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of Flatonia, Tex., and belonging to Mr. Wink Winkfield. Flonie E. Winkfield, Elihu
Anderson, Delia Kline, Ruby Kline, and Napoleon Nelson were killed outright, and
Alice Watson, Effie Lee, Abner Bolton, Albert Martin, Wink Winkfield, and Henry Mc-
Micken were badly injured. The last two are almost sure to die. The cotton gin was
entirely destroyed, and there was nothing left in its place to show where it had stood.
(277.)- On October 7th a hot-water boiler exploded in the basement of a tenement
on Charles street, Manhattan, N. Y. Nobody was injured. The property damage was
about $000.
(278.) — A boiler exploded on October 8th in Robert Parkhurst & Co. 's wood and
coal yard, on Meridian and Kansas streets, Indianapolis, Ind. Reese Browning was
killed, and Albert Stewart, Edward Brown, Robert Parkhurst, and Frederick Reddehase
and his son Fred were injured.
(270.) — On October 9th a boiler expl-led at Jericho, some eight miles southeast of
Union City, Ind. John D. Brown was seriously injured.
(280.) — On October 11th a cable broke on the inclined plane of the Red Run Coal
Company, at Ralston, near Lock Haven, Pa., letting three cars go flying to the bottom.
The cars plunged into the boiler house of the Ralston Brick Works and caused the ex-
plosion of one of the boilers.
(281) —-On October 12th a mud drum of one of the boilers of the Youghiogheny
Valley Railway Company exploded at Buena Vista, near Pittsburg, Pa. Fireman Wal-
ter Ready was badly scalded and burned, and the building was wrecked.
(282.) — On October 12th the boiler of locomotive No. 709, on the Chicago & Alton
Railroad, exploded near Curryville, some thirty miles east of Mexico, Mo. John Mason
was instantly killed. Engineer Patrick Markey and Fireman Crawford Wheeler were
badly burned. Mrs. William Glasscock, W. E. Eckler, Dr. J. J. Kincaid, and a colored
porter named Liudsley were more or less hurt. The locomotive was blown almost to
atoms.
(283.) — A boiler exploded on October 13th in J. P. Odom's cotton gin, at Byron,
some twelve miles south of Ennis, Tex. James Williford was seriously burned and
bruised.
(284.) — On October 13th a boiler exploded in A. B. Turner's corn mill, two miles
east of Greenville, Tex. Engineer Samuel Conder was seriously, and perhaps fatally,
injured, and Mr. Turner was badly scalded also. The mill house was wrecked.
(285.) — A hot-water boiler exploded on October 14th, during the course of a fire at
Waterbury, Conn. The boiler was thrown to a considerable height, and fell in Arch
street, some two hundred feet from its original position.
(286.) — A boiler exploded on October 13th in the power plant of the Northern
Ohio Traction Company, at Akron, Ohio. Fireman Joseph M. Clearwater was badly
burned and scalded.
(287.) — A boiler exploded on October 15th in M. O. Gunter's sawmill, east of Black
Lake, near Shreveport, La. One of the employes was slightly injured.
(288.) —On October 17th Michael Dvorak was instantly killed by a boiler explosion
in True & Company's sash and door factory, Chicago, 111.
(289.) — - A terrific explosion occurred on October 19th in the boiler-room of the