The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-07
The Boiler Explosion at Fall RIver-FuII
Particular.

Particulars.
The Fall River (Mass) NelOs of Thursday even
lng gives long account of the terrific boiler eX-
plOsion which occurred the same morning and
was partially reported in our teegTaphtc
columns. One Of the boilers of the Globe Print
Works, at FAIL River. exploded about half past
SIX o'clock, entirely demolishing the boiler
mouse, which contained seven boilers, and set
Ting nre TO the print works, which were COM
pletely destroyed.
The Netos says-"Two of the boilers were
thrown into the air, and, in descending, struck
upon the roofof the madder dye-house, making
q complete wreck of that building-boilers,
reels, umbers, machinery, and steam pipes
being mingled In one confused mass. A piece
OF another boiler, weighing over three tons,
struck the stone wall of the main building
(Which was two feet in thickness) and went
through 1t, opening a breach forty or fifty feet
storiesl A portion of the expioded boiler
with large number of the tubes, weighing
about hslf po., ton, struck the cottage occupied
street with such force as to smash In the
snP ppST PgTE OF LnS rShf tearing OH the get and and
doors. AS soon as the noise was heard In
i,s the house, young man visiting there in.
but she exclaiming, My childI my child =
attempted TO rush back into the house to reeo-
yer her child, who was in a cradle near the
stove. But the young man prevented her, and
going in himself found that three kerosene
lamps which stood on the mantel eiece had been
knocked over on the stove and exploded, so
that the flames almost enveloped the baby's
cradle. he carried the child to its mother, safe
and sound. This was an almost miracul Gus
escape, for in an instant after q large tuoe from
spert its .orce on the very spot where mo
ment before the younE babe lay in its cradle.
No damage was done to the house oy Tue haihes
of the burning oil. ~.
"AnOther large piece OF the same boiler:
weighing about three quarters OF ton, with q
considerable number OF tubes. passed over the
same cottage, knocking down the chimney and
lodging itself in q garden some two hundred
and nifty or three hundred yards from the ,,,,.er
lNV"se' anu "s..s.lug into the hard, frozen
ground to the depth Of a foot or more. Tubes
and bricks were scattered in great profusion all
along the path of the hying missiles. and we
think 1t safe to say that tubes and bricks could
be found In large quantities anywhere wlthln a
house. Windows and doors in every quarter
were demolished.
"In the madder dye-house, wheie the two
boilers lay, some sixteen hands were atwork at
the time OF the explosion, yet not one OF them
was seriously injured. Thomas Mckale, the
person who was most injured in this room, says
that the WOrKmen there were tossed about ana
thrown down like mere toys. Ne was at work
close to the place where one of the boilers fell
and would have been crushed to death had IL
not been for the support which the large reels
gave TO the falling timbers he was injured In
the right shoulder and left leg, and received q
slight cut on the head. Patrick Lowney, who
was at work in the same place, received RHlight
Injury in the back. Four persons were at work
where the other boiler fell, yet all escaped with
out injury. On hearing the rip rip OF the eX-
piod1ng boiler, and seeing the gas lights eXtin-
Buished, they thought something was wrong,
and rushed out just in time to save themselves
nom horrible death. Hiram Pierce, the nre,
man, was seriously injured about the head and
chest. There was a large cut upon his head
some four inches in length, and his left ear was
Bnt His head was bruised in a shocking man
ner, the periosteum, or the membrane invest
Ing the skull, being denuded to considerable
6atent.n
About two hundred hands are thrown out Of
employment by this catastrophe.