Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-13
Three Men ScaIded.

l At about half past o'clock yesterday
 morning three men were seriously, one fatally scalded while digging in 8 trench
 near the boiler house of the New Haven Steam Heating company on George street, foot of Temple. loud report was heard as | of the discharge of small cannon, the noise l quickly bringing many people to the scene In an instant great clouds of steam rose from trench near the company's boiler house, enveloping the building and the near ! locality in scalding fog. An eight-inch ! main, upon which there pressure of 45 pounds of steam, had unjointed by the separ | ation of two lengths of pipe, owing to the settling of the ground, and the steam was rushing out in dense volumes The three men in the trench at the time of the accident were working upon an adjacent main, and all of them were terribly scalded. They were Michael Donnelly, James Mansfield and Thomas McEwen. Mansfield is badly ] scalded about the legs, arms and neck. Me- Even is severely scalded about the arms and face, but not to the extent that Mansfield is, | and compared with Donnelly his injuries triaing. Owing to the unsettled condition of the ground where the steam enters the main building, the workmen were engaged in transferring about 70 feet of the same to better foundation
 Last Sunday the wooden pipes were re- moved from the iron main, and yesterday morning Michael Donnelly and Thomas Me-
 Ewen were in the trench making preparations for removing the iron pipes. About thirty five feet of the pipe lies on inclined plane,
 which, with the settling of the ground and
 the severing of one of the supports, drew one of the ''slip joints" apart, thus filling the trench with steam The sudden rupture caused the cannon like report and then the escaping steam reminded one of big steam 1 sr blowing off steam. The men were thirty
 feet from the break but Donnelly, who was
 nearest to it, evidently lost his head and | rushing towards the break took the whole | force of the escaping steam upon his body. Had he turned aside, did McEwen, he would have been able to escape with but
 slight injury.
 Donnelly and McEwen were promptly con- veyed to the hospital. Mansfield, who is be- tween 30 and 4C, walked home, but when he arrived he dropped from exhaustion. His wife assisted tc get off his clothes, which were wringing wet from the condensed steam, and with the removal of the clothes consider able skin peeled from the arms, back and legs Cloths soaked in oil were applied. He will be laid up for several weeks.
 In Donnelly's case half the surface of the body was terribly scalded and the skin peeled off to very serious extent. He about 40 years of age and lived at 213 Water street He has wife and child in Ireland, but no
 relatives in this country except a cousin,
 Andrew McGovern, of this city. The men
 injured were trustworthy men and had been
 employed by the company since it begun
 business. The pipe was replaced in less than
 three hours.
 DEATH OF DONNELLY.
 Donnelly died at the hospital at quarter
 past 5 o'clock p. m. A coroners inquest
 will be held this morning. Deceased will be
 buried in St. Bernard cemetery. Mir. Mans
 field speaking of the accident, said last even-
 ing that the pipe gave way at the moment he and his companions had removed one of the supports, showing that if they had exercised caution the accident would not have occurred.