The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

1901.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. ^49
(209.) — On July 24th a traction engine boiler exploded at Clarksburg, near Chilli-
cothe, Ohio. Albert Johnson was badly scalded.
(210.) — On July 25th a feed-pipe nipple failed on a boiler in the Poyet Manufacturing
Co.'s confectionery establishment at Tenth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, New York
city. The fires were thrown out into the room, and firemen Joseph Dooley and Charles
Forsetti were fearfully burned. Both men were taken to Bellevue hospital, where
Dooley died later in the day, and Forsetti died on the day following. There was a
panic among the 400 girls and 100 men employed about the place, and some of the girls
fainted; but none of them were injured.
(211.) — On July 26th a threshing machine boiler exploded at Anderson Valley,
twenty miles southwest of Ukiah, Cal. William Rose was struck on the head by a heavy
casting and instantly killed. David Leard was also injured so badly that he died a
short time afterwards. Several others of the crew were injured to a lesser extent.
(212.) — A threshing machine boiler exploded on July 27th at Seger, fifteen miles
south of Weatherford, O. T. John W. Peters, Alfred While, and Caleb Jones were
killed, and Dr. Jewett and Augustus Fergeson were fatally injured. Arnold Douglass
and John S. Troughton, Jr., were also injured, though to a lesser extent.
(213) — Engineer Arthur Bigler was seriously scalded on July 27th by the explo-
sion of a threshing machine boiler on Charles Chappelear's farm, seven miles southwest
of Neoga, near Mattoon, 111. Fire followed the explosion, and a great deal of property
loss resulted.
(214.) — On July 28th a boiler exploded in the Winyah Lumber Company's plant at
Georgetown, Ga. Three persons were killed, and seven others were injured. The plant
was almost entirely wrecked.
(215.) — A boiler exploded on July 28th in the Robert Portlier Brewing Company's
plant at Alexandria, Va. Engineer Lewis Hart was badly burned about the arms and
face, but will recover. It is said that the exploded boiler was carrying only 40 pounds of
steam at the time of the accident. The property loss is said to have been about $5,000.
(216.) — On July 29th a boiler exploded in Simon Bartlett's sawmill on George's
Creek, ten miles from Louisa, Ky. Oscar Miller was badly scalded, and his two children,
who were playing near the boiler, were scalded so badly that one died during the night
and the other can hardly recover.
(217.) — The boiler of a mine locomotive exploded on July 29th at the Pancoast
colliery, on the Winton branch of the Lackawanna railroad, near Scranton, Pa. Engi-
neer James Burnett was instantly killed, and fireman Cronk and brakeman Reuben Jones
were badly scalded and cut. It is thought that Jones will die. The locomotive was
totally wrecked. The boiler was lifted from the trucks and thrown thirty feet, and sev-
eral cars that were attached to the locomotive were wrecked.
(218.) — Fire broke out on July 81st in the engine room at Zeller, McClelland &
Co.'s mine, on the McBeth farm, near Brazil, Ind. While engineer Frank Bard was
fighting the blaze, the boiler exploded with great force, demolishing the engine and
boiler rooms, and the blacksmith shop, fifty feet away. Fortunately, Bard escaped
injury. According to a subsequent report by Factory Inspector D. II. McAbee, there
was likelihood of the fire involving the mine itself; and as there was nobody hurt, he
considers that the explosion was fortunate, because it effectually extinguished the blaz