The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-08-09
Terrible Explosion.

About two o'clock, last Saturday NJ
ternoon, our usually quiet little villag'
was shocked and startled by the explo
sion Of the boiler ut the Hargsr mill
situated three-10urths ofa mile nortt
east from here. A large portion Of Tn,
citizens FASTENED to the scene, as It WA
ut first reported that one Of the Tux
worth Brothers, Of Manistee, (who has
leased and were running the mill) hat
been killed outright, and that sewers
others had been more or less injured
also, that the ruin was on fire.
Arriving at the scene of the disaster,
the report was found to be but partially
true Harry Tuxwerth, who had been
running the engine, was found naan.
gled, bruised and broken, senseless
and dying-anong the debris, few
feet from where the treacherous boiler
had rested. The fire which had at first
started I'm the ruin, was extinguished
by some of the men who had been al
work In the weeds near by. Drs. E. HI.
Wood and w. b. Mott, who were
among the first at the spot, examined
the wounded man, and found, besides
numerous severe bruises and probable
internal injuries, the left arm broken
twice. He was found In an, upright
position, where he stood when the ex-
plosion took place-his head having
fallen forward over fiue torn from the
boiler and lodged in the ruin. He was
placed on mattrass covering hastily
constructed board stretcher, and up
held by several men on wagon, was
borne to his boarding house, but died
before reaching it.
The ruin of the boiler, engine and
upper part Of the frame work of the
mill was complete. The boiler and its
foundation was blown completely away,
not one brick being left upon another.
A part Of the boiler, weighing perhaps
half a ton, was carried across the creek,
and some Is to 20 rods from where it
started. The dome, q piece weighing
some 500 or 900 pounds, was thrown
about a hundred feet. Flues were
scattered in various directions; most of
them, still held together, lying on the
broken timber Of the mill, twenty or
thirty feet from where the boiler had
stood. The frame work and board COW
ering Of the mill lay in confused mass
of splinters, covered with dust; some
pieces hanging among the limbs ofsur-
rounding trees, forty or fifty feet from
the ground.
The cause of the explosion will prob
ably never be known. They had been
cutting lumber but u few moments be-
fore, but had shut down the motion,
and Harry was engaged repairing the
butterfly" valve. 1t was exceedingly
fortunate for the remainder Of the en-
ployces at the mill that the shingle
machine was not being run. as I'm that
event, 1t is highly probable that Ave or
six would have been killed instead of
only one. As 1t was, the escape of a
portion of them may be considered al
most miraculous, rs they were just out
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