The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-24
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A Brave Engineer.

New York Herald.
Up to the time of the accident the
Aurania's voyage could scarcely be i'm
proved upon. The weather was agree
able, the passengers were inclined to
%sociability, the broad built steamer
proved a splendid sea goer, riding very
steadily on the wafer, and showing a
minimum of vibration, while the new
engines worked with unusual smooth
ness. and ree)cd off 400 odd miles for
every a hours. The best days run Was
439 Knots. Had it not been necessary to
stop the engines for eight hours in order
to allow Il hot-bearing to co ! phcuom-
email time would have been made. AS
as it was, the steamers actual time from
Queenstown to the point of the acct
dent, twelve mics south-south-wesr of
Shinl:e2ocL light, was only six DAYS and
twenty-five and a haif hours, and had
her machinery remained Intact she
would have Won Il record pressing close
upon the fastest time which the fastest
steamship has yet made. The plot was
taken on board on sunday morning.
Early in the afternoon the pasSangery
we're excited by the cry of Land, nor
and for several hours thereafter the
s start o. .iG rail n and Wateh 1l4' the lo W I n'le
of the Long Tslaad coast dim
lv visible in the.distance.
II was while the passengers we're
tnus engaged that the crank Shaft at.
tached to the middle piS.on, an clor-
nous bar of sohd steel, ten inches in
diameter, suddenly snapped iii twain.
Tie suddenly liberated piston rod shot
mp through ,he top OF the combining cyl
inder, tearing the thick steel plates all
to pieces, and with one tremendous
burst and a report like hat Of heavy
pieces OF ordinance, a vast volume Of
steam, carrying with it fragments Of
iron, burst through the skylight and es-
cape h~eavenward. The havoc wrought
in the ~engine-room was terrible. Not a
cylinder escaped laceration. Iron
braces were bent and torn, heavy beams
were perforated, glass an ileh thick
from the sky-lisht was blown into the
air and rained down upon the deck in a
dangerous shower. A passenger was
sitting neal the stern and wa slightly
cut by falling glass. A lady passenger
Mrs. E. w. Sturdevant-was standing
near the skylight. She was knocked
Town by the force of the explosion and
her wrist was badly sprained. For y
moment or two there was almost a pan
ic on board, those on deck being fright
ened by the noise of the explosion, the
rush of escaping steam and the sound of
some terrible pounding which was going
on in the lowest depths of the engine
room. They rotreated in some disorder
toward the bows. Other passengers
who were below, rushed on deck to see
what the matter was.
E1t II uac NOT On lonk nov ,yot -, {1,a
upper part of the engine room that the
real point of danger lay. Down three
greasy pairs of ladders, in the depths OF
the ships hull, far below the cylinders,
N the dark hole where stokers grow
faint from excessive heat and where the
Hrimy engineer on duty holds his post
of responsibility, there was enacted a
scene which rarely has an equal. The
lower portion of the broken crank shaft,
a mass of steel weighing many tons. was,
of course fastened to the main shaft of
the ship, and as this continued TO re-
voive from the working of the other pis-
tons, an immense arni of steel went fly
ing about like q huge fail. The effect
Was awful. Iron and steel we're knocked
to splinters. A supporting. column Of
wrought iron a foot in thickness was
broken III two, and one piece weighing
q ton was bitten out, so to speak.
Wherever the fail struck destruction
followed. The air, already choked with
scaldlng steam. was tilied with sparks of
fire caused by the blows ofsteel on steel
and iron. The place was internal.
Nothing but prompt action could save
the sheathing Of the vessel from being
pounded through. The engine must be
stopped. And yet the little steel brake
which controlled the whole tremendous
mechanism was situated only about two
feet from the arm of the thrasher and
right iii the midst of the scalding steam
and the biistering sparks.
Andrew Lambert, the second.'engineer,
promoted from the Bothnia, was on dn-
ty in the engine room. He is a tall,
brawny Scotchman of some three or four
and thirty. When the crank shaft broke
and the engine room was turned int,
pandemonium Mr.. Lambert was stand
twenty or thirty feet from the brake.
He saw and felt the dense mass ofsteam
and noted the lightning of the flying
sparks. He knew the engine must be
stopped. To see the controlling brake
was an impossibility, but he knew that
instinct would take him to it, and drop
ping down on his hands and knees, he
crawlea up to it andtarned off the steam.
The shaft had made about twenty reyo-
lutions before he was able to get the en-
CINE under control. He was badly scaid-
ed about the face and hands, but other
wise uninjured. But be had risked his
life to say the ship.
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