The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

454 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [October,
ished a cooper shop near by, and injured a workman named Barto. A number of other
persons received slight injuries from flying fragments. The mill was completely
destroyed. It is said that Mr. Kramer estimates his property loss at $10,000, and the
damage to surrounding property is said to have been $3,000.
(197.) — A threshing-machine boiler, belonging to Nathan Keeney, exploded near
Atchison, Kan., on August 24th. "We did not learn further particulars.
(198.) — On August 26th, as Herbert A. Beidler and a party of friends were taking
a trip around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, on his steam yacht Cygnet, a flue failed in the
boiler, and the engineer, George Smith, was terribly and perhaps fatally burned.
(199.)— On the morning of August 29th, while a steam launch belonging to the
new cruiser, Cincinnati, was ou the way to Greenport, L. I., to get the mail, an accident
of some kind occurred to the boiler, and the engineer was scalded. Late in the
afternoon of the same day, while the launch was steaming in from Gardiner's Bay, two
of her flues failed, and the engineer was badly scalded again.
(200.) — A threshing machine boiler, belonging to John H. Miller, exploded on
August 30th, five miles west of Muncie, Ind. There were about fifty men in the vicin-
ity, but, marvelously, no one was injured in the least.
(201.) — On August 30th, a boiler exploded at Stony Brook, near Fergus Falls,
Minn. Hans Harvig, engineer, was badly crushed, and died instantly. His father,
Knute Harvig, who was firing at the time of the explosion, was struck in the head by
a flying fragment and instantly killed. Tollof Anderson, who was 75 feet away, was
struck in the thigh by a piece of iron, and injured so badly that he died four hours
later. H. T. Harvig was badly scalded, but may recover. Both heads of the boiler
were blown out. The cause of the explosion is not known.
(202.) — A serious accident occurred on August 30th, in connection with the expo-
sition at Hornellsville, N. Y. The boiler of a small engine used to drive a cream sepa-
rater exploded, and a Mr. Carpenter, who happened to be near by, was seriously if not
fatally injured about the face and groin. Several other persons were seriously burned
about the face and hands. Pieces of the boiler were found a quarter of a mile away.
(203.)— One of the two large boilers at the West "Washington street power house of
the Citizens' Street Railroad Company, Indianapolis, Ind., exploded on August 31st,
causing an estimated damage of $6,000, temporarily crippling the street-car system,
and slightly injuring Michael Egan, John Gallagher, and a Mr. Murphy. The walls of
the building were considerably injured, holes ten feet wide were opened in the sheet-
iron roof, and the iron smoke-stack, 75 feet high, was tipped into a dangerous position.
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