Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-01
ANOTHER EXPLOSION.
A Train on the Ohio and MiSSiS-
Sippi Railroad Blown TO
Atoms.
Five Persons Killed and q Num-
Der Wounded.
Slekenlng Details OF the CataS
tFOphe.
Special to the Louisville Journal.

Special to the Louisville Journal.
CINCINNATI, Oct 30.-0ne of the mos
horrible railroad accidents that has oe.
CURED in this vicinity for some time past
took place at Gravel Pit, a station distant
about eighteen miles from this city, on the
Ohio and Mississippi road, last night
about o'clock. A special freight train
left this city at 6:25 last evening in charge
Of Mr.. Mills Howe, conductor, and Jos.
Gardner, engineer. Reaching Gravel Pit
about y o'clock, the train was stopped
on the main track for the purpose of tax
ing wood for the engine.
Shortly after the train stopped, while
the brakeman was passing the wood
aboard the tender, the engineer oiling the
en- zine, the fireman piling the wood as it
came aboard, and the conductor and a
party of little boys who had gathered
about to see the locomotive standing
alongside the engine, q powerful freight
locomotive exploded her boiler with res
port that was heard for miles around, and
with such force that it killed the con-
ductor, fireman and one of the boys outs
right, and wounded two more of the boys,
who have since died The engineer and
brakeman named Henry Howe, broth>
er TO the conductor, were also injured
quite severely.
So terrible was the force of the explOs
sion that the engine was shattered into a
thousand fragments some of which were
blown to the Kentucky side of the river,
a distance of nearly a mile, while others,
large and small, have since been picked
up all around the scene Of the accident
within the radius of thousand yards.
The wood in the pile alongside was sent
flying in the air in every direction, and a
stationary engine used for saving the
wood and the house that enclosed it were
blown to fragments.
The conductor was lifted up and thrown
against the wood pile, struck in the face
ard body with several fragments of the
boiler, and so fearlully mangled and
burned by the escaping steam as to be
almost unreeognizable. Both legs were
broken and his body crushed to Jelly, and
his face and neck gashed and skall
crushed The fireman, John Mullone,
who was standing near the fire doors in q
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sion, was also horribly mangled and died
instantly. His limbs were broken, body
covered with cuts and bruises, and his
skull blown off and his brains spattered
all over the river side Of the water tank.
One Of the boys, named John Smith,
son Of one Of the employees of the road,
residing at Gravel Pit, was blown q
distance Of 800 yards against a gravel
bank and instantly killed. He was about
| twelve years ofage. His brother, q few
years younger, was also blown long dis
lance, together with the flying wood, and
| so badly injured that he has since died.
The other boy, Thos Murphy, about If
teen years old, was lifted up and thrown
a distance OF fifty feet against a woodpile,
which fell on his body completely hiding
it from view. He died in few minutes
after being taken out from the debris.
His little brother, about six years Of age,
was blown a dissa nee of forty feet into a
lot Of tall weeds, where he was shortly
after found crying Justify, but COMPARE
lively slightly injured.
Mr.. Gardner was knocked down and
pretty seriously injured in the head,
| shoulder and hip. He was taken to
Lawrenceburg last night in an insensible
| condition, but at last accounts had re-
covered consciousness and was in a fair
way of recovery. Henry Howe, the
brakeman, had his hip and knee crushed,
and received internal injuries, which, it
is feared, may prove fatal Several other
persons were slightly bruised and
scratched by the flying fragments The
| trucks of the engine were not moved
from the track, nor the tender moved
more than three feet backward. The
force seems to have acted from below,
lifting the boiler upward and scattering
the fragments literally.