Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-18
NEWS MISCELLANY.
AN EXPLOSION NEAR SCR
An Engine Explodes with Terrific Force,
ScaIdIDG the Engineer to Death
Other nee cent Happenings from

An Engine ExpIodes with Terrific Force,
ScaIdIDG the Engineer to Death
Other kecsEt Happenings from
ali Directions.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred in
the engine house at the head of No. Q
plaus Gu the Pennsylvania coal company's
gravity road Saturday afternoon, killing
the engineer, wrecking the head house
and de.nolishing a humber of the Western
Union compa1y's poles and wires. The ac
G dent occurred at 2 o'clock, when ali the
planes between Dunmore and Hawly were
running at full speed, moving the long
lines of coal trains that folio we'd each
other in quick succession from the mines
of the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys,
and it caused q complete blockade Of the
road from end to end. Fred Marsh, the
engineer, was caught amid pile Of falling
timber and debris aud scalded TO death by
the hot water and steam.
The scene of the accident is one of tho
highest points on the Moosic mountain
range, aad fragments Of the engine house
were sent flying hundreds of feet down the
side of the slope. Tie gravity road COLI
| sists Of a succession of planes, operated by
stationary engines that pull the coal trains
up tho hillside by means Ol stout wire
| cables. On reaching the summit the cars
| were detached and sent speeding along
the we'll graded levels a. a swift pace, with
nothing but the brake to regulate thei.
momentum, until they toach the foot
of tho next slope, when they are hauled
up again and thus PISSED until they
reach the town, Hawley, where their con
tents are transferred to the regular train
cn the Erie line. Two passenger cars have
been run ov,r the r,ai daily AR! in sum
mer it is 4 favuil:C lCTtc for i;,.:.suie par.
ties. The accident at No. . w,ll keep til,
road and the comp.ny's mines idle for a
week at iraSt an ;nroW th0u>.t'.dS of mol
out o: employmcn: during tina: lime.
Eight Men Instantly Kil;ed and TIVE
| Fatally Injured at Cantor. liz.
At Canton, ILL.,, there was Il boiler ex
plosiOn in the plow factory Of Parlin &
Orendorf. Eight workmen were killed
and two fatally injured. The dead arr
William McCaurey, engineer Lewis
iIamment, tiicnian Alexander McKcrson
Joshua Othara, William Miller, Hiram
Palmer, Archibald Henderson, and E
McGrath. Samuel Bell was terribll
crushed and Calvin Armstrong scalaed
The killed and injured wero warmin.
themselves in the engine room at tn
time of the explosion. The builGin;
caught fire and $50, 900 damage was done
Two hundred and fifty persons are thrown
ont Of work. The boiler was new and II:
cause is assigned for the explosion.
)I A TIpsy Man Steals a Locomotive.
Joseph Carlin jumped upon an engin
in the yard at East Syracuse at 1890. II
!, pulled the lever and the locomotive sho
out of the yard eastward. A half-mi.
5 from Dewitt the engine collided with an
other one which stood upon the track
The engineer and fireman OIL tho latte
jumped out Of tho cab. Carlin escape
without injury. The engines were badl
damaged. Carlin was taken to the polio
station by Special officer Blowser, of Eas
, Syracuse, and was locked up. Car!n
q weak minded. Several years ago he
said to have received a blow in the hea
: from 4 ball club, from the effects of whic
s he has never recovered. He is said to h
usually temperate. industrious and {
good morals, but Captain Seely says tn;
ho was very drunk when he brought
the station house. lie denies all know
edge of what he did.