The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-05
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The Indianapolis papers continue
to be largely occupied with the details |
Of the terrible disaster which occurred |
at the 5 lte Fair on Friday afternoon.
The ! ute Sentinel of Saturday has |
the TO-. owing with reference to the
cause of the accident:
The cause Of the accident cannot
be determined now. II remains for
the eoroner's inquest to throw light
upon that point. The boiler was q
new one, only finished week ago, I
but was leaking badly, 1t IS said. It
was made at the Western Ma1hlne
Works, of quarter inch iron, from the
Sligo Works, of Pittsburg, and was !
considered safe at a pressure or three
hundred pounds to the square inch.
Persons who we're looking at It
Faw minutes before the explo-
Sion saw that the water was so low
tbat when the lowest gauge was turned
no+binr hut blue steam escaped; but
Mr. SInker examined the second
gouge lust before the accident, and
Savs it was flush with water. Its con-
difion in this respect will doubtless
he learned at the inquest. The en-
gineer and fireman were trying to get
M D good deal of steam and were
Keeping up very hot fires, and as the
boiler is known to have leaked, it may
have been that the water escaped much
faster than the engineer was aware
of. The explosion was predicted
by 4 number of persons, one OF
whom told the engineer that 1t would
burst before an hour If he did not
look out, to which he responded
cd d-n you we are running this.
The gentleman walked away, and had
lust reached the southern end OIL
Power Hall when the explosion took
place. When our reporter started
from the race track to 60 over t
Power Hall, a man running along re
marked, "I'h bet that's Sinker's boil
er, l told EN- it would explode if the.
were not careful" Several other
made similar remarks.
The same paper Of Monday est
mates the dead at twenty, m0stl.
from Marion County. It also con
tains the following additional details
There now remains at Weaver
undertaking. establishment one bod
and parts Of three others. The bod.
was supposed to be that Of Levi
Wilson. but as yet no one has claimed
it. Some one thought it was that o
Henry Geisel, but dispatch was re
ceived from him last night, announc
ing his safety in Terre Haute. Tn
fragments have not been identified
One of them has the stump of al
arm attached to it, and wa
at fret thought to be that Q
William Dunning, head sawye
az MeKendry & Lo7ecraft'
staVe factory, but it was after
wards identified as that of job
Slack, of Rob Roy, who was In tn
CITY on Friday, and drew ninety dol
lars pension money. Dunning /
missing, but it is not known whethe
Slack went home or not. The othe
FRAGMENTS are probably unrecogniza
bic, but there can be no doubt tina
they are parts OF two distinct bodies
and do not belong to any of the other
we have named. This swells til
dreadful list to twenty, to which on
more, at least, will be added, viz
John Kennedy, a boiler-maker, VIII
resides at No. 245 West South Street
and whom the attending physical
LutUkb GaUuOb JOD64DAJ 4COONO1s
ARE THERE ANY MORE?
This is a question which, In al
probability, can never be answered
It is a little singular that among tn
dead there have been no children, ant
the theory has been advanced tina
such may have been blown entirely tt
pieces. Coroner Aired has in hi
possession nearly bushel of frag
ments Of flesh, pieces of bones, ears
etc., which were found scattered al
over the ground. Whether these al
belong to the bodies found, is a ques
ton which cannot be determined
The men reported missing are gradu.
ally turning up, but there are severa
not yet heard from. Among then
Is j. Ayr, Of Milton, who was ex
hibiting a patent wheat drill. I'll,
was seen near Power Hall few min,
utes before the accident by Mr.
Lukens, with whom he was associated
during the week, but since then moth
ing has been seen or heard of him
His machine is still upon the ground
and, as he had been about closely al
week, it does not seem likely that b,
would go away and leave it withou
saying word. A young Frenchman
who hes been working several week
for Charles Ketwell, who lives abou
seven miles west of the city, on tht
Rockville Road, came to the Fai
on Friday, and has never beer
seen since. He had partially serveC
an apprenticeship as a machinis
and engineer, and it is thought would
be likely to have spent most of hi
time near the engines. His clothe
and property are all at Mr.. KetWell's
and If he had been going away h
would certainly have come for them
There are others missing. Some o
them may be killed, but we are in
clined to think they will all turn up
Men frequently 50 away suddenly a
such times, and do not think to leav
or send word of their departure
And men sometimes get drunk ant
stay that way for several days, en-
tirely removed from the knowledge o
their friends.
The wounded, with the exception
of Kennedy, are generally doing we'll
At the Surgical Institute there ar
nine, all Of whom are improving
although some, especially those VIII
had legs fractured, are In critiea
condition.
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