The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-21
FEAYFUL EXPLOSION.
FIVE PERSONS XILLED.--oTHKKs ISy

FIVE PERSONS KILLED,--OTHKRs INJUREI
CINCINNATI, o., March ls-At half.
past two this afternoon the fire bells rang
from Liberty street and Central avenue
The signal, mo fire." soon followed, bu,
It was not long before the whole city was
shocked by tho intelligence of one of the
most terrific boiler explosions ever expert
encsd here. Perhaps, in some respects
gular in the history of casualties.
| A battery OF two steam boilers IN the
soap and candle foctory Of Woods j. Con.
ahsn, occupying the large front at COS
! Central avenue exploded with ah uni hear
of violence. In the factory were abou,
eighty persons. Two Of these were horri-
bly, mangled and instantly killed, two
slightly wounded and all the others es-
capped.
On Bsymiller street, over half mile
distant by map measurement in bee line
three little girls in front yard were
jumping the rope. Sixteen feet of this
boiler WAS hurled all that distance, over
the housetops, upon their heads. Two
of them were killed instantly and the
third was MORALLY wounded but is not
yet dead.
This piece Of boiler is q perfect cylinder,
sixteen feet four inches long, twety-four
inches in diameter, and weighs about 4
ton. Persons who saw it say il looked
like stove pipe sailing in the air, Just
above the roofs. A party of ladies on
York street, more than half mile north
from where it slighted, saw it going, and
say 1t resembled a board sailing 10 the
air.
The front yard in which il allghted is
not more than eight feet deep, ands in
closed by an iron railing fence. The boi-
Ter landed in the yard parallel with the
fence, injurng the railing but slightly,
and tearing up the stone steps to tho
doors. Further down the street was about
four feet more of the boiler.
The casualties at the factory where the
explosion occurred were engineer Barney
Osthotier, who had been acting in that
capacity at these works more than thirt-
cen years. Tie was standing about TWEEN
ty feet from the boilers that exploded put
ting coal in the furnace ofanother battery.
He was msnglsd horribly. He leaves
wife and five children. He was a german
about fifty years old.
James Unicrich, a german about same
age, who attended the tank, had gone in
the engineroom on temporary errand
and WAS torn to pieces. He leaves wife
and five children.
George Herringer, an employe in the
works, was seriously but not dangerously
bruised. l.. Hoffman, also an employs.
was struck in the arm, and slightly wound.
cd by piece of boiler. Michael Speman.
. mason working at the factory, was struck
by fragment of boiler and injured slight
~. Geo Hswley was covered with debris
and slightly bruised.
This was all the injuries at the factory.
The children killed on Bsymiller street,
were Alice Thornton, siIyears old, in front
VI her residence, just waiting to go down
own with her mother; Cora Colo also six
Fn S,s o'a' was turning rope with Emma
Tbo,u Also six years old, for Emma
~, ihnornton' who had just learn ed to jump
Tue rope Emma Forbus was MORALLY
r "Uu"ped' All three Of the children live
me1s ss,aymiller and Oliver streets, half
.nle distant from the place OF the explo-
sion, and SO far off that the report Of il
could scarcely, if at all, be heard.