Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-29

wagon. striking on his head, and received
bad scalp wound. An iron
rod made an ugly cash in his
thigh. He had a narrow escape as huge
girder crushed in the front end of his
wagon. Directly back of him was a light
buggy with a black horse hitched to it and
driven by John ChaIafaix, owner of a liv-
cry stable on Halstead street, near Van
Buren. The buggy was caught by the
enormous iron girder that runs along the
top of the viaduct and it was smashed to
pieces. Chalafaix was very badly crushed
and will hardly live. He was lifted out
from under the iron beams and was con-
pain and cries were terrible. He was
taken to the county hospital. The schoon-
er was towed on up the river to the ele-
vator.
TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION.
ALBANY, Sept. 26.-Early this morning
the boiler of the steamer j. s. Robinson,
which lay at the foot of WesteTloo street,
exploded with frightful force, instantly
killing Capt. Geo. s. Warner, and fireman
VIM. Cleary, and seriously 1njuring Fred
Tinslar, the engineer, who was blown in
the water and narrowly escaped drowning,
and Willard Durand and Melville Ryan,
deck hands. Richard Vauzandt. son of
the captain of the tug boat, Cora, from
New Baltimore, laying alongside the Rob-
ipson, was also injured. Captain
Robinson, of the Hattie M. Belts, was
blown from pilot house on the wharf and
severely injured. The Belts, which lay at
the stern of the Robinson, was damaged
$4,000. The Cora, alongside, is total
wreck, and the G. P. Grounl, lying ahead
Of the Robinson. had her joiner work car
ried away and machinery damaged. The
Robinson sank Immediately carrying with
it the body of Cleary, the fireman. One
section of the boiler weighing two or three
tons was hurled 400 feet against
th6 top story of three
story building, crushing in portion of the
wall. Another section weighing nearly
ton crushed the coal barge E. W. Down
ing, and still another section was hurled to
the rear, grazing the cabin of the coal boat
apollo, tearing away the roof before it
fell into the river. Buildings were shaken,
ton preveiled in the vicinity. The explo-
Of this city in 1882.
fduZdnI 5Oa was hlll6Q. 1Q6 lOidl
losses cannot yet be ascertained. The er-
plosion was probably caused by the neg
ligence of the engineer in allowing the
water in the boiler to get too low. Capt.
McAndrew, of the canal boat Apollo, in
the rear of the Robinson, and his wife
had a narrow escape. They were asleep,
when piece of the boiler carried away a
section of the roof about three and one
half feet long and one and one-half feet
wide, together with a portion of the end of
the cabin nearly down to the bed. The
roof was only two feet above their heads.
McAndrews said the first thing he knew
he was sitting on the floor with his back
against the wall and things flying all
around him. His wife was senseless in
bed covered with the ruins of pictures and
looking glasses. Capt. Robinson, of the
tug Bells, was asleep in the pilot house,
turned complete somersault in the air
and suddenly found himself on the dock.
Officers in the first precinnct station house,
an eighth of mile distant, were thrown
from their beds on the floor and the whole
building shook violently for three seconda.
Al first it was thought there was an earth
Quake