, 1876-11-16

With fs wife and five children, rented the rear
up-stuirs rooms. Tho frat-nashes two men we're
married. but lia,l no children. 1t wns Wallace
aud Shay who had the narrowcst escape, TR
former, who !. an American, sa'l:
- 1 nHl my wife had Just gnnc 10 he'd when
The cxplos'oI, occurred. We hal Eccn sitting
at n table t,y the window, U'ic IN carh fItlc nf
tho table, fur f'a!f nti l"ur before retiring Wo
ca,he n couple NJ 1ashes like lightning. MY
wife ecrcanctl, but told her 10 keep still, as It
was only the stur1n. immediately there came
another flash. anu third cloud q dust an'i
plaster. As soon rs 1t settled a littlc could
see that there was b!g holc in tho roof. That's
all TINT know n(,out II )"
Nearly the wl,olo o{ tic aide au1 roof Of tho
hot,so hal been crushctl in, md by lint Of lean
tng OYER to 9hy,s te renortsf .ce sc
ton Of ihe boilcr,-ncarly l1atf,-bcfn9 about
thirty feet In length md atx feet IN brca'ltl.'
solid Iron. It's weight, at the Invest cstlmatc.
could moi have hectf less tan 5000 pounds. IN
its eu,rsv through thu houHc t,a' pissed w!tsl-
in three feet Of where the man Wa'laco anu Ills
wlfc wcru lying.
was INC holt.c ol JoIn Mungosat'. 1sw aoots ss,
two visitors frurn the North Side, werc In tho
lnuso ut tho tisnc u the explosion. They hnd
all gore to bed q few minutes bcfort It occur
red. The drum of onc Of tho boilers: abont
DxY feet III s!ze, smaafed III the rooft cut through
bed wlIcrc tlr mai, and his wife we're slccplng.
Munsoynn says that he did 1lut set ur hear any,
thing before The p!ecc Of iron rn1nc crashing In.
During Yesterday other pieces of Iron md
fram the disaster, totnc being found on the
prfarfc hslf mile south. No further damage
has becn reported.
THE suFREHEns.
Early yesterday morning Coroner DictzscA
visited tic rolllng-mtlls to ho1d an inquest On
the body nf Patrick C0nners. III order to secure
the attendance uf witnesses the Inquest vas
postponed until tis morning, when It viii he
held at the Dcering Street Station. Cennets
ower. @ Tic icaves two children.
Michael Leary, who WAS 50 badly Injured by
IN Iron bar falling upon him, lives ut No. l89
Dgcring street: a reporter called upon lin ar'!
found l1t'n suffering greatly md not expected
II am wntcr-tentlcr III the stecl-works Of the
Union Notling-Miss. ,My business Is 10 attend
to the boilers. Two CAUCUS of watef were In
the boilers ut tug time. The water had been
before: The boiler. vas tested to pressure Of
eixty-t1vo pounds, hut at that time there was q
/ pressure Of stxty-cight to seventy pounds. That
in,1ch prcssurc has, been Ut. frequently BE-
fore. We iaye had as much us ferenty-hvc
pounds sevcral times Tlo BOILERS wsTs s;,,p put II
| plodcl wcre repaired last sunlay, bui
! do not know what wns done Il
them. Report II 1ade every Saturday TO tflt
engineer u6ont the fitness of the tlers. aud lust
| Saturday these were reported unfit and out o
orler. There are sixty-two tues III each boiler
| 1 10 not know the gAusc Of the explosion, uu
| less 1t was that there WIS too much stean,.'
| Coroner nietzsrll says that lc will Inquire rig
| idly Into all the circumstances Of tho casualty III
the Inquest to-day, and II It can be shawn thai
anybody Is tn blame, he will scc to 1t TINT tfla
person is held for triu!. There eccms tu hay.
been 6omc gross carclessncss somewhere.