The daily gazette., 1882-11-14
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
DEATH IN AN OHIO ROLLING
MILL.
HORRIBLE SCENE OF CARNAGE
The Killed and WOunded--One Man
Blown Sixty Feet and Others Terribly
MAngled.

| CLEVELAND, Nov. 13.--At 4.30 o'clocl
this afternoon the main boiler In the Fores
City Il on Works at Newburgh suddenly ex
ploded, killing four or five men and fatally
wounding as many more. The mill wal
! almost entirely wrecked, the roof being
blown of aud q great deal OF valuable
machinery damaged. Fire broke out imme
diately, but was suppressed with little dam
| age. AS soon as the debris had ceased fall
Ing and the smoke aud steam had blown off
| a scene OF indescribable confusion was wit
messed The boiler was In fragments, thu
| greater part of 1t having gone through tho
roof and being thrown hundred yards tC
the north The lesser portion went simi
lar distance in an opposite direction. Broker
| machinery and fallen walls were seen on all
sides, while dead and dying men were scat
| tered here and there among the ruins
Police officers and medical men were quickly
summoned from Newburgh and from this
city, and the injured men with the bodies OF
the dead were taken into the office for iden.
tifcation and treatment. Up to 5 O'Clock
the following had been accounted for:
KILLED.
John Williams, engineer.
Sydney ID. Wright of Wyandottc, Michi-
| gan, who had just entered the mill In search
of work. He stood talking with a com.
whole top Of his head was blown off, and
| the body broken all to pieces.
William Atkins, roller. He was cut en-
tirely in two, the body being found In one
place and the legs in another, and all from
| 100 to 200 feet away from where he had
been at work.
William Wilson, young man from Chi
cago.
John Gallagher, piler In the guide mill,
| face mashed In, nose gone, head full OF
| holes with the brains oozing out. Not ex-
pectcd to live under any circumstances.
Francis p. Bradley, carpenter; arm
and leg broken cut in the groin and in
| the back.
John Mollany, fireman, leg broken.
q. ii. Hanna, rougher lie was lifted
| up by the conclusion, carried over the
shears, and landed ON the ground 60 feet
from his place of starting. A flying brick
| struck him on the head, knocking him in.
/ sensible.
Jenkins Evans, an employee of the mill ;
both legs broken.
Engineer Williams, when found, was SO
deeply crushed into the mud and so dis
| figured to the color of the ruins about him
that he would not have been seen had not
Gallagher, who was beside him, groancd
out "Hcre are two of us here In this
corner "
HEARTRENDING SCENE.
Several men are missing, but whether
| they are dead under the rufus in the water
| course beside the mill, or simply gone home
without reporting themselves, cannot at this
| hour be told. A crowd of women and men
| soon gathered about the little square build
ing In which the dead and dying had been
laid out, and the sceno was heartrending
When Gallagher, all broken and bloody was
laid on the floor, mothcrly- looking woman
pushed by the officers, and saying 81 am
his wife, F" knelt at his side. "Doyou know me
John, she asked. and when he said that he
! did, she placed her hands on his face and
said, Put your trust in God, John; call Oh
the man above" He feebly answered, 81
do" and then begged some one to lay him
on his side. He was in fearful agony and
the doctors said that he could not live until
morning One man who had an arm
broken had 1t set, aud then went hunting
! among the ruins for his dinner pail, until
some one took him in charge aud sent him
hsme. All the work orcoursc ceased, while
crowds of workingmen stood about or
searched among the ruins for ghastly evil
denees of tao terrific force that had been at
| work. The damage in money cannot exceed
three or four thousand dollars, unless the
loss Of machinery will run that figure up.
The boiler was an old one, and was the
| cause of a death or SO ten years ago. There
are suspicious that the Coroner's investiga-
tion viii show that it ought TO have been
| discarded long ago