The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

436 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [September,
one brick being left in its place, and the wreckage was strewn over several blocks. The
water-works belonged to the city and the electric light plant to a private company, but
both were in the same building. The dynamos and the city pumps were torn from
their foundations and "twisted out of all semblance to their former shape." The-
explosion took place about 7 o'clock, while the men w r ere at supper, and the only person
about the place was Mr. H. C. Hock, manager of the Electric Light Company.
Mr. Hock was fearfully injured, and will undoubtedly die. John Blougher, who was
driving past the building in a buggy, was struck on the head by a brick and knocked
senseless. The property loss was probably about $15,000.
(157.) — On July 24th a boiler exploded in the creamery at Harmon, near Sterling,
111. Nobody was present at the time. The smoke-stack was blown down and the-
buihling was considerably damaged. We have seen no estimate of the property loss.
(158.) — The boiler in McNeil's mill, at Gloster, Miss., exploded on July 24th.
John Anderson was killed instantly, and George Shropshire and James Blaylock were
fatally scalded.
(159.) — A boiler exploded, on July 25th, at the electric plant of the Will mine, in
Monongahela City, Pa. A man named Spence received injuries that will probably
prove fatal. The property loss was about $6,000.
(160.) — On July 26th a boiler exploded in Yancy tfc Dyer's flouring mill, at
New Cassel, near Fond du Lac, Wis. The mill was wrecked, and Lowell Dyer, a
young man of 18, was fearfully scalded, so that he died a few hours later.
(161.) — By the explosion of a saw-mill boiler at Poplar Grove, Ind., on July 26th r
William Williams was killed and two other men were injured.
(162.) — The boiler of freight engine No. 82, on the Wabash road, exploded
on July 27th at Ashwood, near Defiance, Ohio. Traffic was delayed several hours. We
did not learn further particulars.
(163.) — One of a battery of twenty-one boilers exploded on July 28th at Packer
colliery No. 4, operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, at Ashland, Pa. John
Miller was killed instantly, and John Laubach, Darby Shields, and John Malingo
received injuries from which they died in a short time. Steven Shelsick was also pain-
fully injured, but he will recover. The east end of the boiler-house was blown out, the
roof was considerably damaged, and one of the large smoke-stacks was knocked down.
(164.) — A slight boiler explosion occurred on July 30th in the creamery at Lyndon,
Kan. The account that we received says, "things let loose, and the flues went out at
the top of the boiler." The damage was small, and it does not appear that anyone was.
hurt.
(165.) — The boiler of a Canadian Pacific consolidation engine exploded near Field,
B. C, on July 30th, while pushing a freight train up a steep grade known as "the
hill." The locomotive was blown to pieces and Engineer Wheatley and Fireman Hunt
were killed instantly. George Kemp, a brakeman on the rear car, was fatally injured
by flying fragments of the boiler. (He died on August 1st.)
(166.) — On July 31st a boiler exploded in Atkinson's mill, at Mount Vernon, 111.
John Atkinson, the proprietor, was thrown a distance of fifty feet, and instantly killed..