The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

1901.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. 53
(2.) — A boiler exploded, on January 2d, at the Marine Railway & Dry Dock
Company's plant, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Frank Woodward, Frank McKinley, and Joseph
McClelland were injured. The engine and boiler house were utterly destroyed.
(3.) — On January 2d a boiler exploded in the second story of the Sheldon block,
on Fall street, Seneca Falls, N. Y. The explosion blew out the front of the first and
second stories of the building. Frederick Miller and Miss Rena Stowell were injured.
The building took fire, and the total damage to property was nearly $15,000.
(4.) — A boiler exploded on January 3d, in the Pure Food Milling Company's mill,
at Watseka, 111. L. D. Malotte and Jacob P. Smorley were instantly killed, and Ira
Jones was slightly injured. The boiler was thrown two hundred feet, striking the
wall of Gard & Bonham's hardware stores. The mill was badly wrecked.
(5. — ) John Murphy, an employee of the Gloucester Ferry Company, was badly
scalded about the face and hands, on January 3d, by the explosion of a tube in the
boiler of a coal-hoisting machine at Gloucester, N. J.
Ind.
(6.) — On January 3d a flue failed in a boiler at the Acme Cycle "Works, at Elkhart,
(7.) —A locomotive boiler exploded, on January 4th, at Newtonburg, Clearfield
county, Pa. John Miller and William McMasters were killed, and fireman Harry Pat-
ricks was injured.
(8.) — A boiler exploded, on January oth, in Cooper's elevator at Elk Creek, Neb.
Nobody was injured.
(9.) — On January 7th, a boiler exploded in C. H. Vanstone's mill, on Cow Creek,
near Sulphur Springs, Mo. Engineer Leslie Service and S. E. Isbell were injured. One
of our accounts reads as follows: " Jasper Murphy was also standing near the engine,
but besides being slammed down abruptly on his mother earth, suffered no great harm.
One of those who were standing near the engine, on being asked how he felt when the
explosion came, said he felt kind of dazed, and kept wondering how that blamed old
boiler came to be turning summersets in the air."
(10.) — A slight boiler explosion occurred on January 8th, in the Belmont Mill, at
Wheeling, Va. Nobody was injured. The mill took fire, but the blaze was soon
extinguished.
(11.) — On January 8th the Rochester Orphan Asylum, at Rochester, N. Y., was
destroyed by fire; and shortly after the fire broke out a boiler exploded with terrific
force, completely blowing out the lower part of the west end of the connecting wing,
and thereby cutting off the escape of the children from the east end of the building.
As the accident occurred in the night, and the sleeping apartments of the asylum were
in the east wing, the isolation of this part of the building was a very serious matter; and
in spite of the most strenuous efforts on the part of the firemen and the volunteers who ten-
dered their energetic co-operation, twenty-six children and two adults were killed, and
thirteen others were seriously injured. The asylum was practically destroyed.
(12.) — A boiler exploded, on January 10th, in Luther Brothers' stave factory, at
Burns, Tenn. Nobody was injured.
(13.) — On January 10th, a safety boiler exploded in Charles M. Stieff's piano fac-
tory, at Baltimore, Md. John Smith was killed, and Frederick Hall, Richard Koch, and
another man named Gray were badly injured.