The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

1901.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. 165
(227.) — A boiler exploded, on August 7th, in John Burton's sawmill, at Caney,
near West Liberty, Ky. John A. Wells and William Burgess were killed. The mill
was wrecked.
(228.) — On August 7th a boiler exploded at the Doolittle mining plant, two miles
south of Reeds, near Carthage, Mo. Engineer Alexander Smith was fatally injured.
The boiler, machinery, and building were all demolished.
(229.) — A boiler exploded, on August 9th, at Fairmount, Ind. Frank Gilchrist
was seriously injured.
(230.) — On August 9th a locomotive boiler exploded at Troy Grove, near Syca-
more, 111.
(231.) — On August 10th a Mogul locomotive exploded, on the Chicago & North-
western railroad, at Sycamore, 111. (This is a distinct explosion from the one recorded
in the foregoing paragraph.)
(232.) — A 65 horse-power boiler exploded on August 11th, in the Long Beach
Hotel, at Long Beach, L. I. The kitchen and the hall at the east end of the dining
room were wrecked. The explosion occurred at five o'clock in the morning, and on
week days several of the employees would have been in the kitchen, and would doubt-
less have been seriously hurt. The explosion occurred on Sunday, however, when the
help went to work at a later hour than usual, and nobody was injured. The damage to
the hotel was said to be about $30,000, but we think it probably did not exceed
$15,000.
(233.) — The man-head blew out of a boiler in the Ohio plant of the National Steel
Co., at Youngstown, Ohio, on August 11th, seriously injuring Albert Mullineaux. It is
said that Mullineaux was at work repairing the boiler at the time, and also that the
fires had been built under it only a very short time, so that the pressure was not at all
heavy.
(234 ) — A boiler exploded, on August 11th, on the steam yacht Quail, at Electric
Camp, near McKeesport, Pa. Robert Chriswell and Henry C. Osborne were fatally
injured, and Edward Miller, Charles Brosky, William M. Campbell, J. E. Henry, and
Charles Smith were seriously injured. The victims were all mill workers except Camp-
bell, who is the owner of the yacht.
(235.) — On August 12th a boiler exploded in the Weston Lumber Company's mills,
at Groveton, N. H. Fireman Frank Boucher was instantly killed, and Henry Tyler was
badly injured. The engine house was wrecked, and fragments of the building and
machinery were blown to a distance of a mile. Three steel smoke stacks were thrown a
hundred feet into the air. The property loss was estimated at $5,000.
(236.) — A slight boiler explosion occurred, on August 13th, in a heading factory
at South Whitley, near Hartford City, Ind. Harry Carson was fatally scalded, and
Fireman Lewis was also badly burned.
(237.) — On August 13th a slight boiler explosion occurred on the towboat Fred
Nellis, at St. Louis, Mo. Engineer James H. Smith was fatally scalded, and two fragments
of iron also struck him on the head, fracturing his skull.
(238).— The boiler of locomotive No. 2190 of the Southern Pacific Railroad exploded
on August 14th, between Bloomington and the San Sevaine switch, near San