The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-15
BOILER BuRsTED.
l., B. & w. Engine, No. %, Bursts
Her Boiler in the Union Depot.
THE WRECK.

THE WRECK.
THE WEST END OF THE DEPOT BLOWN OUT
AN ENGINEER KILLED-A FIREMAN BADLY
INJURED-MARvELoUs ESCAPES.
An explosion, fearful in its results as it
was sudden, occurred at the Union Depot
this morning at 12:l5. Engine No. 25 on
the l., B. q W., of which Jack Rogers was
the engineer, was just ready to start out,
and the midnight train on the c., III. d 1.
had just pulled in. when the boiler of No.
% exploded. 1t can not be pos
sible that the engineer or fireman
OF the exploded engine were on board,
as neither OF them are hurt. Al. 4. Moore
engineer on the c., II. q l., wss instantly
killed, either by the falling brick of the
depot building or a flying piece of the
boiler, Att O'Clock his body was living
in the west baggage room door, the
TOP OF HIS HEAD BLOWN OFF.
He leaves a wife and three children
at Hamilton, Ohio. The fireman on the
c., b. q L. engine, No. II, Isaac A. Ballard,
was badly scslded and bruised. He Is
erious ly though not dangerously injured.
The whole west end OF the Union Depot
was knocked down, and one section OF the
roof fell down. Fred. Steinhour, one of
the local mail agents, had just laid down
In the mail room wnen the explosion oc-
CURED. The walls of the mail room
protected him from actual danger, but
thinking the
BUILDING WAS ON FIRE
and the flames were creeping in on him,
he raised a terrible outcry, which brought
assistance to him, and he was soon
relieved from his embarrassing position.
In nnf ho
bruised, but is not injured so ss to be un-
fitted for duty more than a day or two.
A piece of slate off of the roof was thrown
through the window of Sam Moran's saloon
on the opposite side of McNabb street.
One OF the hues of the bursted
boiler wss blown against the front door of
the Everett House, on the opposite side OF
Illinois street, and about half square
away. No. 70 was new engine,
jast out Of the works, and had
only been tested q short time ago.
The windows aud disIs of the Union Depot
ticket office were 3a s-Il rsf.
BLOWN TO PIECES hr
by the force of the explosion. Il is inc-
possible to tell whether anybody is hurt,
except those mentioned. 1t is hardly cred
ible that with q train just on the point of
starting out, and another one just
come in, there should have been so few
people about that none ara buried in the
ruins of the end OF the depot. The whole
west end is there, pile of ruins, two or
three feet in depth, and when 1t comes
TO the removal IL will be
because of some miracle III
there shall not be somebody found buried
there. Both the ems ines are ruined. The
fall of the west wall mashed them both SO
completely as to render them useless. Is
is claimed that the steam m-gauge showed
los ponds of steam, and that there
were two flush gauges of water in the
boiler. This would indicate
PERFECT SAFETY,
and there would be no reason why the
fireman and engineer should be absent
from their posts. They could not be
found by reporter after the explosion.
To every inquiry the only answer by any
body was: "Jack Rogers was here moment
ago. Idon't know where he is now. He
is not hurt" "Was he on his engineer"
II don't know" The fact must have been
that both the engineer and firemen knew
their danger, and had skipped out
10 save themselves. They could not have
been in their engine and escaped unir-
pesrance, with the west end blown out,
the two wrecked engines, almost
buried in debris, and everything
broken, ss If it.were going to rack and
ruin. Ballard, the fireman, has a bad blow
on the left cheek. His shoulders, breast,
body, arms, and hands are badly scalded.
His clothing was saturated with the rush
ing steam, adding 10 his misery and his
injuries. f-s5