The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-06-28
THE DEADLY BOILER.
A Steam Tug Boat Blown Up With
Disastrous Results.
THREE MEN KILLED OUTRIGHT.

THREE MEN KILLED OUTRIGHT.
A LOADED CANAL BOAT CUT OPEN AND
sUNK-rHE NARROW ESCAPE OF HER
CAPTAIN AND HIS FAMILY-A CASE FOR
THE STEAMBOAT INSPECTORS.
The New York Sun of Thursday gives
the following particulars OF the boiler
explosion reported by telegraph: The
boiler of the tug II. w. Work msn ,mooTed
for the night at the foot of Vestry street,
exploded at e quarter past 6 o'clock yester
day morning, and Alexander Reid the fire.
man; Kneelsnd Wright, the cook, and Cor
nelius Ferdop, deck hand, were killed
outright. Wrlght's body was hurled to
the roof OF the Pennsylvania railroad
pier, nearly fifty feet higb and one thou
sand ieeL away. The Workman, rent
apart, sank, carrying down the mang led
bodice OF Reid and Fsrdon in
their hunks. The Julia Sheppard,
canal boat, laden with oats,
70 which the Workman was attached,
was injured as she might have been had
it been the ex plosion of q gigantic torpedo
at her side. A Jagged fracture, extending
from deck to keelsOn, was made by a part
of the Workmsn's boiler going through
her, forward of the cabin. The water
poured into the hold, setting the oats
sflOst, and she settled to the waters edge
almost before her captain, Chester Corson,
and his wife, of CsDsstota, N. z, could get
aboard of an adjacent barge.
Splinters Of the Workman showered upon
the water and the bsrges and the roof OF
the Van Tsssel elevator at Pier 80, seventy
five feet high. { he crown plate and fOu
feet of the boiler Of the Workman, held
together by inch-tbick braces, and
weighing two hundred and fifty
pounds, were thrown to the roof at so
Lsigbt street. ploughing deep hole there
in. Mr.. and Mrs. John Campbell,
the occupants, were not injured. The
boiler was bent and twisted, as
though it had been putty, and
several of the braces were doubled.
The fragment was OF old and rust-eaten
iron, and mschinists pointed out to one
another where it had been repeatedly
patched. Another piece of the boiler,
equally heavy, AID falling upon the
crushed through 1t. Two small
pieces of the boiler fell through a port
ststeroom OF the Isaac Bell, more than q
hundred yards distant. X Ills of the
smokestsck. propelled over fifty feet, fell
ON pier 80. A piece of the boiler
weighing twenty-five pounds whizzed
TO the roof of the eight-story government
warehouse at West and Yes ~ streets,
gashiDg tue trspet on the way. Part OF
eno PiaIo aIounu tno Udso VI Iuo eSChpc
pipe
wa1RLED OVER THE sUNKEN JULIA
SHEPPARD,
the cabin of the E r.e Teeter, wherein
slept the cap ain and bis large family
raked of much of the la'ter's woodwork,
and lodged on a store chest forward. A
row b Ist followed the same course further,
falling into the water, shattered, beside
the Mary Powell, moored at the eno OF
pier 80. Glass was broken in
msny.oI the'windows Of the neigh borbood
All of yesterday great tbrong bent over
the edge OF West street and the offal dock
at Vestry s'rset, gazing Dp1n tue only
parts of the Workman visible, a small por-
ton of the cabin roof, with the steam
gusge aud escape pipe attached
Others jostled sround the crown
plate, which had been brought
to West and Vestry streets.
THE CHASTITY REMAINS OF TWO STRONG
MEN.
Wright's body lay all the forenoon on a
stretcher In the cool basement of the Leon
ard street police station. It was
wrapped in blanket that was drencbed
frequently with ice water. The body was
tina OF good looking and remarkably de
vel psd young man. 1t had on
dershirt. Seemingly, a piece of the boiler
struck Wright on the LEFT side. From the
nth rib to the hip his side CAPPED. In
the hand was q hammer, showing. pre-
sumsbly, that bearing the omn. us
noise OF the stesm, as Capt. Cors IN
oil >, Wright took no the ham,
mer, and was ignorsntly potter
ing about the engine when the boiler
exploded. From nis being semi-clotbed,
in the way that men of his class are When
they sleep aboard their craft, il was in
ferred that Wright got out of his bunk on
hearing the noise of tae 8 cam, and wen
to see about it with the hammer In his
baud. sergeant of the Leon
ard street station, however, said
that ha haliauad f-nnn inkcrona