New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-31
THE. BOILER EXPLOSION At PROVE-
DENCE.

The Provide nee papers contain iuu accounts VI tue
boiler explosion in the Indis Rubber works Of Nsth.
HAYWARD on tt ursdsy morning. The Journal says,
Such wac the force Of the explosion, that the boiler.
weighing con four tuns, was thrown out carrying
with it the wall Of the building, hitting and cuitog of
an elm tree ni1e inches in diameter, and breaking
away the eide Of house opposite and not expanding
ts full force against these Obstacles it continued
three bur dre0 feet along the street, and there fell
part Of it red hct when it struck the ground.
The engine had been started aboat twenty minutes
before the explosion The ashes and coal and scadiDg
stesm were thrown into all parts of the building aud
the whole was almost instantly erveloped In h,mes
The destruction Of the works is complete and pile Of
ruins is all that remains. The counting room, which
Is re oara.e was little injured, except by water.
The works consisted of five bulldogs beside the
counting. room. They were all Connected the older
portions we're built Of wood ard three stories high and
the additions were OF bIi,k ana stone four or five
stories bigb, covering in all eighteen or twenty thou
sand feet Of land.
There were over two hundred persons employed in
the works. moie than hail OF them females. At Irst
1t was supposed that the stairs bad been separated
from the portions Of the buildings in which the grea
part Of the people at work terrible panic en-
sued and it with difficulty that the girls could be
restrained from throwing themselves out OF the win.
COWS. Some Of them jumped down upon shed, AID
were removed from that by ladders; Others Went down
by the chairs used in hosting goods. Ia this way
some OF them sustaped trios il juiies, and few of
them were hunt seriously, but none Of them, 1t
Is hoped, dane erOusly.
Mr.F. T.. Eewes, the superintendent Of the shoe de-
pa,tntpt, was badly soalded and wounded. At the
tire Of the explosion, he was in his room over the
boiler room. His 6fst knowledge Of the disasser was
bis finding bDself sinking. Presertly his downward
notion was partially arrested. lie was blinded and
covered with loose bricks and mortar. Here he sup
Dos that be received bis burns and wounds on his
fsce and arpe. On his fret real cOnsciousness, he
fourd himself on the lower story among the ruins. Hs
escspe was almost miraculous.
Elijah Ormsbee, the engineer, was blown out with
tie boiler. II. was covered with brick and rubbish
TO the depth Of IL irehes His Leg TSs broken his
it 10 certain if he viii survive all these Injuries bat
DR.. Miller hopes he VIII.
DR.. Haitshorn sold the establishment two years ago
for $6i CO., The land was valued at sH 600. The
buildings and machinery were probably worth about
$50 0C0. There large quantity OF manufactured
ard manufactured stock on hand, OF which 1t Is not
possible to get estimate, ss Mr. Haywood at bis
al perhaps partly in Connecticut. The insurance. is
stated at $4,000 but the exact amount could not be
ssceItaibed.
TIE Hope Iron Fonudory, situated ext to the works.
on EDDY street at time fire, and only saved
by the greatest Efforts Of the bremen.
The house which the boiler struck was occupied by
Michael Drury and Michael II. McGwinn in tbs upper
stcry, and by james Faulkner and Mrs. Csthsrins
McElroy in the basement. Mrs. Faulkner was sitting
in rocking chair near the window with her child 10
her aims when tie explosion took place. The boiler
passed through the side Of the house, and took the
lockers from the chair in which Mrs. Faulkner WAS
fttiDg, Who beside being roughly unsosed rcceiy-
ed few bruises fromt the spntvfs and pieces Of wood
Mr.. MeGwinn's mother and sister, who were In the
room overhead had Just finished breakfast, and were
preparing for wasbIg, when the boiler carried away
The whole front side Of the ROOM demoshng the closet
its contents, sink, clock, looking glass ws,hbSor,
teakettle, and chairs, iesyipg the stove the only
whole sicle in the room. Large cracks were msde
IN The floor, and the bulding slightly moved from
iis foundation. The pasteriDg was shaken down With
euch force in the lower story to create quite bruse
on Ellen Haferin's face.
The street was covered with the bricks and spliu-
ters al The way from the works 70 the place who're the
boiler FELL One little girl was knocked down in the
stI EFT by the flying bricks. Several persons sa~ tho
boiler a. few up the street, and there were Some
narrow escapes Of persons passing.
There seems to be doubt amorg experts that the
explosion vas caused by the water getting out OF the
boiler, and admission Of cold waer upon the hested
hon The appearance Of the boiler iSside, and Of the
fracture gives undoubtsd evidence Of this There
were FIVE boilers three of them only in ,se, and s
possible that the water connection with the exploded
boiler wss impeded BY sediment.