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(147.) — A siiuill boiler exploded in a wagon-shop in Menominee, Wis., on July
18th, wrecking the building in which it stood. Nobody was hurt.
(148.> — One of the boilers in the Catsburg Coal Company's electric plant at Cat«-
burg, near Monongahela, Pa., exploded on July 1 8th. The engineer was injured, but
not dangerously so. The power-house wassomewhal injured, and the property loss was
probably about $6,000.
(149.) — The boiler of a threshing engine exploded near Hudson, Ohio, on July
19th. Gabriel Ously was instantly killed. Barney Morgan was fatally scalded, and
Edward Carter was injured internally and cannot live;. The fire-box was blown into a
straw siaik, which blazed up and set fire to an adjoining barn so quickly that a dozen
men who were in it barely escaped with their lives.
(150.) — Considerable damage was done, on July 19th, by the explosion of a boiler
used iu connection with the baths in the Jewish synagogue, known as the House of
Jacob, in Utica, N. Y. The boiler was situated in the basement, and the explosion tore
up a considerable part of the floor in front of the chancel, together with the first three
or four rows of seats, fragments of which were blown through the ceiling. Some of the
windows were blown out, the chandelier was wrecked, and what had been, a few
minutes before, an attractive synagogue, was transformed into a scene of wreck and
ruin. Nobody was in the bath at the time, and nobody was injured save the janitor,
•whose feet were slightly hurt.
(151.) — The boilers in a large saw-mill belonging to White & Co., at Kendall's
Station, fifteen miles west of Helena, Ark., exploded on July 19th, killing one man and
fatally scalding two others. The mill was totally wrecked. One of the boilers was
thrown 500 feet through the tree-tops.
(152.) — A boiler exploded on July 20th in Jachin's hat-shop, in Newark, N. J.
Fire followed, and the shop and six frame tenement houses near the boiler-house were
destroyed. The account says, "it is believed that several lives were lost."
(153.) — On July 21st a threshing-machine boiler exploded at Deer Creek, near
Logansport, Ind. Two men were badly scalded and a third narrowly escaped being
killed by pieces of flying debris. The boiler was blown into scraps, and it was con-
sidered marvelous that all the men were not killed instantly.
( 154.) — On July 22d, while the steamer Onega was racing with the Kindrick, about
forty miles from Chattanooga, one of the flues in her boiler collapsed. Frank Butler,
who was directly in front of the boiler, was deluged with steam, boiling water, and
burning coals. He cried out, "Men, I'm killed," and sprang into the river. He
did not come to the surface again, and it is not known whether he died from the burns
or was drowned. His body could not be found.
(155.) — The boiler of a hoisting engine exploded on July 23d at the Savannah,
Florida & Western railway wharves at Savannah. Ga. The hoisting engine was blown
into the air and the smoke-stack fell sixty feet away. Live coals were blown into
the hold of the Concezione, an Italian bark with a cargo of sulphur. The sulphur took
fire in two places, and was extinguished with difficulty. The engineer says that the
steamer gauge registered 55 pounds at the time of the explosion. The safety-valve was
set at 80 pounds. "
(156.) —A big boiler exploded on July 24th in the water pumping station and
electric light plant in Perry. Iowa. The power-bouse was literally blown to atoms, not