The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-03

TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION.
Seventeen Persons scRlded and Man
gIed at PfttSburg.

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PIrTsBURG, Pa, October 2.-Shortly
after 8 o'clock this morning the bat !
terry boilers at the Solar iron works,
of Clark a. Co., on Thirty-Sixth street,
exploded with a disastrous effect.
The night men had just been relieved
when loud explosion startled the
men and portion of the works fell
amid cloud of death-dealing steam.
Through the dense mist came shrieks
aud groans, which Notified employees
beyond harms reach that frightful
calamity had ovcrtaken portion Of
their fellow workmen. As soon as
the steam settled down a rush was
made for the spot where
the explosion occurred, when it
was ascertained that the mud
drum of the boilers had exploded
aud the steam had scalded seventeen
men. Closer investigation showed
that of this number fourteen were
badly burned and three fatally
scalded. The names OF the injured
were: Frank Martin, badly scalded
about the face and arms; will not live;
James Cottoc, fatally scalded, and the
top OF his head almost severed by a
piece of flying iron; Frank Murray, q
boy terribly burned; his injuries will
proqe fatal; Thomas Stein, boy, had
" scalded; william Daniels, boy,
scalded and injured by the flying de-
bris; ID. Richards, boy, scalded and arm
broken; VIM. Garth, roller, badly
scalded Frank Good. boy, badly
cut on the head Patrick Henderson
seriously scalded aud injured by the
fly ing debris; David Smith. shears.
man, badly scalded Joseph Getz, a
boy, scalded but not seriously; Will
liam Simpson, boy, scalded aud in
jured by the debris; Charles IL. Ry.
wood, a pcddler, seriously hurt by
the flying debris; Joseph Sternner
badly bruised aud slightly cut
Joseph, Neil, boy. badly scaldad
Frank Ne6, boy, badly scalded
Barthen Anderson, a gaugcr, terribly
burned, his injuries are prObabl,
fatal.
Scarcely had the hills ceased t,
reverberate the tones of the explo
sion, when the frenzied and fright
encd wives, mothers an children he
gan TO rush on the scene and peel
auxiously iuto the faces of the gasp
ing and dying men, seeking to iden
,ify their loved ones, or inquirlnl
in agonizing tones, If the,
had escaped. The injured wer
found lying in all positions
some so far away from the batter.
that II seemed impossible that the,
could have been injured by the explo
sion. The large number of boy
hurt is accounted for by the fact tina
they were employed to h indie hoop
iron, which was rolled in the mil
nearest the boilers.
the explosion before the boy, Franz
Murray, was taken out from undo
the truck where he was thrown. II
addition to being scalded he wa
terribly crushed by the weigh
of iron piled on top of him. Jane
Cottoe and Frank Martin suffered tn
most from the escaping steam, but n
hopes are entertained of the recover
of either of the three named. Tn
others are expected to recover. Thos
most seriously hurt were taken I
the West Pennsylvania hospital. Will
the others were removed to thei
homes.
Machines were upset, rolls role
ell over the floor, the iron machine
were all thrown together in masse
of debris, under which several of tn
men were buried.
Mr.. Powers, chief engineer of th
mill, says the boilers and mud-drui
were inspected by the Hartford Boi
err Insurance company two month
ago aud then pronounced safe. ii
was certain they were all right whc
he left last evening, and could onl
account tor the explosion on tn
ground that the iron In the mu,
! drum was too weak TO stand the pre-
sure to which IL was subjecte,
Twice before have accidents of tn
nature taken place in this mill.
Two of the victims, Thomas Cate
and John Murray, died at the We
Pennsylvania hospital this mornin
D Three or four others are not expecte
= to recover. The explosion was cause
by the mud eating through the Goa
ing of the mud-drum. Pieces OF Il
drum have been picked up that wei
not more than athirty-secondeth pa
Of an inch in thickness.
No more deaths have resulted fro
the boiler explosion. Five of the VI
TINS. however, are pronounced fatal
injured by attending physicians al
4 their deaths arc momentarily expe'
cd. Their names arc Charles He
wood, JOSEPH Getz, Patrick HendS
q ,on, Thomas Stein and William Da
~ ills. The others are resting easy a
will no doubt recover. The coron
az iourned his Investigation till
In JrrOW.