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body. It is also said that he was seriously injured internally. John Greno's leg was
crushed, and amputation was necessary. Thomas Hart was blown out of a second-story
window, but he alighted in a pile of sawdust and escaped injury. One fragment of the
boiler, weighing about 1,000 pounds, was j)rojected nearly horizontally, and after
describing an erratic orbit in the course of which it demolished several fences, it came to
rest about 500 feet from its starting-point.
(253.)— The boiler of an illicit still exploded in a tenement house in New York
city, on October 18th, severely scalding John Jobesky and Paulina Bossuk and her
infant daughter Jessie. The woman's husband, Hermann, supposed to be the owner and
operator of the still, ran away after the explosion, leaving his wife and child crying for
help. A dozen barrels of mash were found in the room. Revenue officers took charge
of the still, together with the finished and unfinished liquor on hand. The still was
only a block from the Madison street police station.
(254.)— A boiler exploded, on October 20th, in Charles Hoerlein's carpet-cleaning
establishment, on Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, doing considerable damage, but for-
tunately injuring no one.
(255.)— On October 21st, a small boiler used for heating water in Simon Brust-
man's bakery, Chicago, 111., exploded, fatally injuring the proprietor, and severely
scalding his son, Harry Brustman, and a workman named Lawrence Walters. The dam-
age to property was slight.
(256.)— Cliffs saw-mill, twelve miles north of Princeton, Ky., was wrecked by a
boiler explosion on October 23d. The w T orkmen were about the mill at the time, but
they all marvelously escaped injury. One man was firing up at the time, and the blade
of his shovel was torn away, leaving the handle in his hands. A crowd of women and
children had just left the place.
(257.)— On October 24th a boiler in the M. B. M. Peacock grain elevator, at
Markesan, Wis., ruptured along a joint, aud Adolph Schubert, an employe, was severely
but not fatally scalded. The brick-work of the setting was all blown down.
(258.)— A boiler exploded, on October 24th, on the tow-boat Sam'l Little, while she
was lying at the foot of Central wharf, Boston, Mass. The damage was slight, and we
did not learn of any personal injuries.
(259.)— On October 25th a boiler exploded iu the Atlantic City laundry, Atlantic
City, N. J. Nobody was injured.
(260.)— A slight boiler explosion in the power-house of the electric car system at
Leavenworth, Kan., on October 25th, stopped the cars and left the city in darkness.
(261.)— Two boilers exploded, on October 26th, in C. H. Thomas' saw-mill, at
Woodland, near Bainbridge, Ga. Crawford Hawkins was killed instantly, and Lewis
Strickland and George Strickland were fatally injured. Archie Baker and two other men
named Wimberly were also seriously scalded and otherwise injured.
(262.)— A boiler in the wool works of J. M. Rogers, Paterson, N. J., exploded on
October 29th, carrying away a part of the building. Several of the employes were
slightly injured.
(263.)— On October 30th a boiler exploded in A. T. Kreps' mill, in South Parkersburg,
W. Va. John Kreps and Daniel Jones were instantly killed, and Benjamin