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ery is doubtful. The main portion of the boiler was thrown some 75 feet, but fragments
of it were found 000 feet away.
(364.) — A boiler exploded on December 20th, in Sheriff Blankenbeckler's sawmill,
near Sneedville, Tenn. Pleasant Trent and William Edwards were killed, and Jesse
Mehan and Lee Gordon were fatally injured.
(365.) — On December 22d a boiler exploded in E. A. Bennett's feed mill, at La
Moure, N. D. Nobody was near at the time.
(366.) — Howard Potter, a fireman on a Lackawanna freight engine, was killed by
the failure of the crown-sheet of his boiler, on December 23d, at Rockport Hill, near
Hackettstowm, N. J.
(367.) — A boiler belonging to Mr. R. G. Risser, exploded on December 26th, at
Greenwich, near Kankakee, 111. Nobody was hurt.
(368.) — A boiler exploded on December 27th, in John M. Miller's sawmill, in the
Blue Ridge, near Rileyville, some eight miles north of Luray, Va. Engineer James
Stoneberger was instantly killed, and John Miller (the proprietor), and John Rickard
were injured so badly that they died a day or two later. John Deavers was also seri-
ously injured, though it is believed that he will recover. (A similar accident hap-
pened at the same place about a month previously, and Deavers was injured in that
explosion also.)
(369.) — On December 28th a boiler, used to operate a threshing machine, exploded
on the farm of Dennis Regan, of Derrynane, near AYaterville, Minn. The explosion oc-
curred during the noon hour, and nobody was injured.
(370.) — A tube bursted in a safety boiler on December 28th, in the power house of
the electric railway company at Terre Haute, Ind. Herbert Williams and John Gummere
were scalded about the face and hands.
(371.) — A boiler exploded on December 28th, on Oliver Thornburg's farm, near
Connorsville, Ind., destroying the building in which it stood, together with an auto-
mobile which was in the building. Nobody was injured.
Boiler Explosions during 1900.
We present herewith our usual annual summary of boiler explosions, giving a tabu-
lated statement of the number of explosions that have occurred in the United States dur-
ing the year 1900, together with the number of persons killed and injured by them.
It is difficult to make out accurate lists of explosions, because the accounts of them
that we receive are often unsatisfactory. We have spared no pains, however, to make
this summary as nearly correct as possible. In making out the detailed monthly lists
from which it is extracted (and which are published from month to month in The Lo-
comotive) it is our custom to obtain as many accounts of each explosion as possible,
and then to compare these different accounts diligently, in order that the general facts
may be stated with some considerable degree of accuracy. It may be well to add, too,
that this summary does not pretend to include all the explosions of 1900. In fact, it is
probable that only a fraction of these explosions are here represented. Many accidents
have doubtless happened, that, were not considered by the press to be sufficiently
" newsy " to interest the general public; and many others, without doubt, have been
reported in local papers that we do not see.