Daily globe., 1883-07-17
CASUALTIES.
FE4RFUL BOILER EXPLOSION 1T
GLENyS FILLS, N. Z. YESTERDAY.
Terrible storms in Various Parts of the
Country-AccidentaI ShOt-RailrOad
Accidents-Panic in a Picnic Party.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
G1ENs FALLS, n. =, July 16.-At twenty
minutes past o'clock, a loud detonation
was heard, resembling the explosion of a
large quantity of gunpowder, breaking
windows and shaking buildings for mile.
Clouds of steam and dust were seen rising
from the vicinity of the Glens Falls Paper
company's works, at South Glens Falls. A
large steam boiler had been thrown from
the mill distance of 400 feet.
Wounded: Christopher Yattaw, fireman,
was thrown a distance Of thirty feet, Charles |
Miller, Charles Cover, E. J. Dickinson, J
Timothy Buckley, Michael Buckley, Stephen !
Lynch, Lee Parks, Edward Sweeney, Patrick |
Sullivan, Charles Lee and Mrs. Nellie Sui |
livan. Some of the wounded are thought to |
be fatally injured. Within fifteen minutes !
after the explosion the ruins took fire and |
the flames spread with great rapidity, de- |
stroying the buildings wherein were stored |
soda ash and fuel. The exploded boiler !
was one of three of a rotary pattern used |
for boiling straw, but had recently been |
used to make steam for engines. There
were also two steam boilers in the room.
It was supposed the boiler was strong
enough. The loss is estimated at between !
$4,000 and 100000; insured for one-haIf. |
small brick building located forty feet
from the boiler room was destroyed by the
concussion.
At 1920 p. N Yattaw and Miller were
dying.
THE SON SPOTS COMMENCE BUSINESS.
PEORIA, H., July 16.--A destructive wind
storm passed over Pekin, fourteen miles
south of here this afternoon, doing much /
damage to property. The Bemis house
was blown down, but the occupants with !
one exception, escaped uninjured. Smiths /
PIow works and Hodges Header works |
were partially destroyed. The depot and |
round house of the Peoria, Pekin q Jack /
sOnyilIe railroad was demolished and q |
number of cars blown from the track. /
Several stores and dwellings were unroof-
ed and otherwise damaged. No estimate
of the loss can yet be made.
a PANICKY PLEASURE PARTY.
MONTREAL, July 16.-The steamer Beau /
harnais, with pleasure party of 800, run
upon reef in the river, and in being
backed off made water so fast that she had
TO be run ashore and sunk in eight feet of
water. panic seized the people, mostly
women and children, but all were safely
landed.
WIND STORM IN DIES MONIES.
DEs MONIES, July 16.-Des Moines was
visited by a terrible wind storm last night
that surpasses- anything of the kind ever
seen in this city. At no time has the
velocity of the wind been so
great. It commenced blowing a gale
of thirty miles an hour
.
increasing until o'clock. when it swept
over the city at a frightful speed forty
miles an hour, and for a period of five
minutes the wind registering instrument
at the signal Office crowded forty eight
miles. A heavy rain accompanied it, and
considerable damage was done throughout
the city. Chestnut row, fine row of resi-
dences, was unroofed, Trestle block un-
rooted, as were several houses. Great de-
struction was done to shade trees and
shrubbery in all parts of the town. No
damage to persons has been reported. No
reports have been received at this hour of
the effects of the storm in the country.
AwIDE SPREAD STORM.
DEs MONIES, July 16.-The storm in this
vicinity last night was much more severe
than at first reported. At Mitchellville
large Touring mill which had Just been
completed was completely wrecked and
will be total loss. Corn and small grain
were badly down at Newton. It is reported
that large building on the college farm
was blown down. At Chester Center, few
miles north of Grinnell, the Congregation
al church was blown down and completely
wrecked, together with three dwelling
houses, number of barns, etc. Corn and
wheat we're leveled to the ground The
storm seems to have been widespread, ex-
tending as far as Avoca on the west and
Brooklyn on the east. No lives are re-
ported lost.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
MILWAUKEE, July 16.-Mrs. James Hoye,
thirty nine years old, was instantly killed
at II o'clock tonight by being run down
| by backing freight train on the Lake
Shore & Western road. The body was
badly mangled, it being so ground into
the wheels that they had to be lifted with
| Jack screws from the rail.
STAYNER, Ont, July 16.-The building
occupied by Charles Wiggins, general
merchant, Rogers bakery and SiIverthorn,
! photographer, was burned this morning.
! LOSS SZO.OUU.
DETROIT, July ia fire yesterday at the
new chemical works just completed at New
berry destroyed the retorts, building and q
saw mill. Loss $125,OOO; partly insured.
PITTsBURG, July 16.-Fire broke out in
Bell q Davis pork packing establishment
at o'clock this afternoon, and at o'clock
the building, together with Taylor d Bull
locks warehouse and Rea & Co., pork
packers, adjoining, we're in flames. Loss
estimated at $4,000.
NEW ORLEANS, July ia Vicksburg
dispatch says Edwin Culkin shot and
killed Frank McIIway to-day. Cause, family
matters.
PITTsBURG, July 16.-Shortly after noon
to-day fire broke out in Bell & Days pork
packing establishment, on Liberty street,
and the building and stock was damaged
$4,000. Adjoining buildings we're also
damaged to the extent of $4,000. The
insurance more than covered the whole
loss.
LITTLE Rock, July ia Texarkana spe-
cial says: About o'clock this morning a
fire broke out in McLean's two story frame
building on the south side of Broad street,