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(64.) — A boiler exploded in Prior Bros', mill, near Carthage, Tex., on February
25th. John Hawkins was killed and Claude Pryor was fatally injured. One other man
whose name we have not learned, was badly injured, but will probably recover. The
mill was wrecked.
(65.) -j- A boiler exploded, on February 25th, on the tug Burton E. Coe, at Tampa,
Fla. Captain King and one other man were injured. The tug was not very badly
(66.) — A heating boiler exploded, on February 26th, in the Normal school at Fair-
view, Ohio. The explosion occurred early in the morning, and nobody was injured.
The building was slightly damaged, but the loss was mostly confined to the heating
system.
(67.) — On February 26th a boiler exploded on George Hoover's farm, in Pleasant
Township, near Bellefontaine, Ohio. Henry Herring, Norman Key, William Key,
Harley Wills, William Walcott and a Mrs. Key were badly injured.
(68.) — On or about February 27th a heating boiler exploded in the city hall at
Vincennes, Ind. The damage was small, and, so far as we are aware, nobody was
injured.
(69.) — A boiler exploded in D. S. Detrick's elevator, at New Carlisle, Ohio, on
February 28th. The boiler had given some indication of impending trouble, and the
proprietor and Engineer Ora Ammerman were investigating it at the time of the explo-
sion. Both men were painfully injured, and the side of the elevator was blown out.
We have seen no estimate of the property loss, lieyond the statement of the Springfield,.
Ohio, Republican, that " the loss to Mr. Detrick is very heavy."
(70.) — A boiler exploded, on February 28th, at Monument City, near Huntington,
Ind. One end of the mill in which the boiler stood was blown out, but fortunately
nobody was injured. Several workmen had very narrow escapes.
The Future of Steel.
The cheapness with which steel is made is multiplying its uses to such an extent
that estimates made of the possible wants of the world in the future can only be guesses.
So says Andrew Carnegie, irJ a recent issue of the New York Evening Post, in reviewing
the developments of steel manufacture in the United States. Indeed, so rapidly is the
use of steel extending, that it is difficult to see how the world's demands can be filled.
At present, the mines of ironstone and of coking coal in Great Britain are worked to
their fullest capacity and yet the output is not greatly increased ; it is the same with
those of Germany, except that in the latter country there remain some inferior fields
capable of development if prices rise, as is probable. Russia, so far, has not been much
of a factor in steel-making; if she is able to supply her own wants by the middle of the
century, she will be doing well. Except by the United States, Great Britain, and Ger-
many, little steel is made, nor is any other nation likely to make much. The hopes in
regard to China and Japan making steel, Mr. Carnegie believes, are to prove delusive.
Great Britain and Germany cannot manufacture much beyond what they do now, so that
the increased wants of the world can be met only by the United States. The known
supply of suitable ironstone in this country is sufficient to meet all possible demands of
the world for at least half of the centurv: and the known sources of coke will suffice for