Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-03

James CAttoe, fatally sca!oeu. Inc TOP
Of his head was almost severed by piece
Of flying iron.
Frank Murray, boy, terribly burned. In
juries fatal.
Thos. Stein, boy, badly scalded.
Wm. Daniels, boy, scalded and injured
by flying debris.
David Richards, boy, Scalded and an
arm broken.
William Orth, roller, badly scalded.
Frank Good, a boy, badly cut on the
head.
Patrick HCa lersop, shesrsman, seriously
scalded and injured by flying debris.
David Smith, shesrsmsn, badly scalded.
Joseph Goetze, boy; scalded, but not
seriously.
Vim. Simpson, boy; scslded and in
jured by debris.
Chas. Haywood, puddler; seriously hurt
by flying debris.
Joseph Steiner, assistant engineer, badly
bruised and seriously cut.
Joseph Nef, boy; badly scalded.
FGaLk Nef, a boy; badly scaldei.
Bart. Henderson, gsuger; terribly
burned; probably not recover.
Scarcely had the hills belting the Ale
gheny ceased to reverbesste the tones of
the explosion when the
FreDzied, Frightened waves, Mothers and
Childreu
began to rush upon the scene and peer snx.
iously into the faces of the gasping, dying
men, seeking to identify their loved ones or
irquiripg in agonized tones of them who
had escaped. Women halt dressed, others
putting on their clo;hiag as they ran,
children almost nude and scream
irg at the top of their
voices, crowded and jastlsd each other
il the mad rush for the mill. Arriving
there th.re was silence tUl a moment, and
then q womans vail wss heard, and anoth-
er, and another, till there was nothing but
a discordsnt chorus of feminine shrieks and
means and cries Of anguish. The cries and
grosns of the parbolled men would occs.
sicnslly rise above the shrieks Of the
women. 1t was
An Awful Scene
and tie physicians who arrived said they
were almost unnerved at the sight and in
the presence Of 60 much human suffering,
physical and mental The injured were
fourd lying in all positions. Some of them
were so far away from the battery that it
seemed impossible that they could have
been injured by the explosion. The
large number of boys injured is accounted
tor by the fact that they were employed to
handle the hoop iron which was rolled on
The mill nearest the boilers 1t was fully
twenty minutes after the explosion before
the boy Frank Murray was taken out from
under the truck where he was thrown. In
addition to being scalded he was terribly
crSshed by the weight Of iron piled on top
OF him. James Cattoe and Frank Martin
suffered the most from the escaping steam,
90 hopes are entertained for the recovery
Cf either of the three named. The others
are expected to recover, out the majority
will carry marks around them of their ex.
perieIce as long as they live. Those most
seriously injured were taken to the West
Penn Hospital, while the others we're re-
moved to their homes. The interior OF the
finishing mill presented
A Terrible sight of Desolation
after the accident. Things were badly
wreChed. The boilers, six in number, form
u battery shich sets in tie extreme south
ives, corner OF tie mill The muddruu
runs lengihwise under all six boilers 1t
wss the END Of this which blew ou. With
such iesrill force did it explode ss to scat
Ter destruction on ell sides All the boilers
we're uuseated, two of them tilted back,
some on their ends. In the rear the whole
wall OF mssonIy vas moved outward. A
very remarkable feature was the jsmmlug
Of The mup drums head against one of the
engines. The engine wBs sitting feE
ysIds north Of the boilers. The burst
iron was blown directly against the
pieces and blowing the whole head inwsrds.
From this steam rushed out with loud
Kissing sound Large stacks of hoop iron
were bloEn al over the mil. Machines
were upset, rolls rolled all over the floor,
sId in one instance a Wheeloarrov was
thrown through the door The iron ma
chimes and benches we're all thrown together
in inextricsble masses Of debris und+r
which several Of the men were buried. NJ
Powers, the chief engineer Of the mill, says
the
Boilers and Mud Drum Were Inspected
by tie Hartford Boiler Insurance Company
two months ago and were then pronounced
safe. He was certain they were all right
when he left last evening and could only
account for the explosion on the ground
that the iron and mud drum was too weak
to stand the pressure 10 which it was sub
iected. Twice before have accidents of this
nature taken place in this mill The first
one occurred FIVE years ago and was unp,o
6uctive of death. The second one trans
pired only 6fteen months ago, and although
several were scalded, no one wss fatally
hurt. On the last occasion two men we're
arrested for tsmpering with the boilers but
failed of fconviction because of lack of proof
Of the crime.
Two Victims Die.
Two of the victims, Thos. Cato and John
Murray, died st the West Penn Hospital
this morning. Three or four Others sre not
expected to recover. The explosion was
caused BY the mud eating through the coat
ing of the mud drum. Pieces Of the drum
picked up were not more than q seeondth
part Of an inch in thickness.
Five Fatally injured.
PrrrssURG. October Mo more deaths
have Tesnlted from the boiler explosion a,
the Saiar Iron Work. ,,t'l;;s ueas ;sz::.
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