Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-12
TERRIFIC AND FATAL EXPLOSION.

BUFFALO, March IA large boiler IN tne
Phoenix Boiler works, owned by Donaldson
& Patterson, exploded this afternoon, instant
ly killing six men and wounding seven others.
Patterson, one of the proprietors, is among
the killed. The manufacture of boilers is the
business, while a speciality is
testing old boilers. An old boiler belonging
to the tug boat Mary E. Pierce, in use nearly
eighteen years, was being tested when without
the works, 100 feet long, 80 feet high and 40
feet wide Patterson was with q pondercus
mass of the exploded boiler hurled across the
street and through solid board fence, to
which portions of his entrails and fragments
of limbs clung, while his leg was
recovered fifty yards further away. The 9th
ers killed were scattered in all directions. The
force of the explosion was so great that the
windows of buildings nearly half mile distant
were blowen out and many people in houses in
the vicinity were thrown to the ground, ta-
adjoining building was shaken to
its foundation. A large piece of the
exploded boiler was thrown hundreds
of feet in the air, and, falling, crashed through
the roof walls of the elevator, 500 feet away.
The dome of the boiler was thrown 100 feet
in the air, and landed half mile distant. The
KNOWN KILLED ARE:
Robert Patterson, aged SO, married, leaves a
wife and six children.
John Langenfeld, aged 2s, unmarried; found
his remains on the boiler, bruised almost be-
yond recognition.
WOUNDED:
Carl Otto voltz, both legs blown of, cut in
back and chest; can't recover.
Geo. Renner, aged 16, broken heed and
bruised badly.
Henry MacKey, left leg broken, head cut,
injured internally, will probably die.
Alex. Rupert, right leg broken, injured in
ternally, will probably die.
Robt Mexyich, left side of body and face
badly cut; he was standing twenty feet from
the boiler when struck; will recover.
Michael May, about ten feet from the boil
er, hurt in the stomach and left side OF face.
VIM. Knorr, right foot smashed; will re-
cover.
Sixteen men were employed in the works at
the time of the disaster, of whom six were un-
hurt. Donaldson, the other proprietor, had
but few moments before the explosion drove
from the works and was only few squares
away.
BAD FIRE AT OMAHA.
OMAHA, March ia destructive fire start
ed at 1880 this morning in the wholesale drug
store of Ish & Mcmahon, which was wholly
burned out, and also damaged the dry goods
store of S. P. Morse & Co., the wholesale
stove store of Milton Rogers & Son. Pro-
gress of the fire was checked after two hours
and half of hard work. The losses and in
surance are as follows: Ish & Mcmahon on
stock, London Assurance, $4,000; La Caisse,
81 900; Norwich Union, $4,000; Liverpool,
London & Globe, $1,000. On building,
Connecticut, $4,000; Etna, $4,000;
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total. s. P. Morse & Co., on stock, Phoenix
of London, $4,000; Merchants of st. Joe, S2,.
500; Connecticut, IS, 900; Williamsburg City
$2,500; Hartford, $1,000; National, Hartford,
S2,50O Sprinfeld, s. 600; Continental, $4,000;
Imperial & Northern 81, ,400;- London Associa-
ton, ST $40; Norwich Union, $3.50; Home of
New York, s4,50O; North American,
$4,000; Liverpool, London &.Globe, $4,.
ooO Paul Wilcox, building in 200 occupied
er's; s2,5OO; Manhattan, $4,000; Oriental, s2,.
to 40 per cent. Milton, Rogers & Son, build
ing: Continental, s2,5OO; Niagara, $4,000;
Liverpool, London & Globe, $4,000. On stock:
German American, $1,000; Royal, S. 900;
Pennsylvania, $4,000; Home, $1,000; Frank
lin, S2,5O0; London & Lancashire, $4,000;
London America, $1,000; Hamburg, Bremen,
1900. Loss Is to 40 per cent.
wHIRLED TO HIS DEATH AROUND A MILL
SHAFT.
GAINESVILLE, Mo-, March lib. G. Read,
superintendent of the paper mill, went into the
basement to oil shaft journal and was caught
by nut on pulley wheel, carried around the
shaft number of times, and both feet beaten
off by striking the floor above: The humping
on the floor attracted the attention of the
engineer, who shut off steam. On going into
the basement Reads mangled and dead body
was found hanging from the shaft. Deceased
came from Pulaski, New York, last June, as
sisted in organizing the mill company and was
a member of it.
OVER AN EMBANKMENT.
DENVER, Col, March 1.-THE Denver &
South Park train for Leadville jumped the
track this morning near Thompson's. The
sleeper turned complete somersault and
landed in the Platte river down twenty-five
foot embankment. All the passengers were
more or less scratched and bruised, but only
two, L. ]. Smith, OF Leadville, and II. J..
D..1y