Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-08-11
A FATAL EXPLOSION.
CHI ESTER NAyszH KILLED
OUTRIGHT AID SEVERAL
OTHERS WOUNDED.
EcCafrey's Engine q Complete
Wreck.

NcCafrey's Engine q Complet.
Wreck.
| Yesterday afternoon the boiler
of harvester engine exploded in
Parker's wheat field opposite the
Orphans Home killing one man
outright and wounding severaI
others.
| When an APPEAL reporter reach
ed the spot few moments after
the explosion he found the crew
who worked the harvesting ma.
chine too excited to give an intelli-
gent account of the accident The
engine stood in the center of the
field blown out from end to end
About a hundred and fifty feet
west of the engine man was lying
covered with a blanket.
| A TERRIBLE SIGHT.
When the blanket was lifted the
man presented a terrible sight.
His face was shapeless, his clothes
blown off him and his body black
ened and lacerated. He was quite
dead and must have been killed in
! stantly. The name of the man
was known to no one about the
machine, They said he had been
hired in the morning to run the
engine and McCaffrey had not ask
ed his name.
FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION.
Pieces Of iron were found scat
tered about the field two hundred
yards away, and the stubble was
blackened with the explosion for
one hundred yards. There was a
hole in the hue over foot across
where it had collapsed. The steam
entered the fue through this hole
and blew everything out at each
end as if it had been paper. At
the east end a large iron plate had
struck the betting of the harvester
and stripped it off. Several men
were on the harvester and also on
the straw stack. They were brush
ed off like flies and horses knocked
end over end.
OTHERS INJURED,
Caleb Rierson, the fireman, was
struck by something no one knows
what, and found in the field insen-
sible. He was taken to house
near the Orphans Home and was
soon delerious. He was burned
and bruised and his agony was ter
rlble to witness. DR.. Guion or
dered him stripped and cooling
lotions were used to alleviate the
pain. A blow in the head had
caused conclusion of the brain and
he was incoherent. It is thought
he will recover.
Thomas Kenton had his jaw
split and a man named Leary of
Gold Hill was badly injured, nei-
Their seriously.
CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION,
One Of the crew who was inter-
viewed by the reporter but did not
give his name said that the explo- |
sion was caused by too much whis-
key.
He said McCafery, the proprie-
tor of the machine, had been drink |
ing heavily for several days and |
had put on a man as engineer who |
knew nothing about the engine.
The reporter was asked to go
down to the house where Rierson
the wounded man was lying to see
for himself. He called and found
Nc Gallery. He was in liquor but
The magnitude of the accident
seemed to have sobered him and
he was crying like child.
MCAFFERY S EXPLANATION.
McCafery said that he had put
IN a man as engineer in the morn
ng but did not know his name, nor
ask for his certificate. The man
said he was an engineer and was
set to work. He went to turn on
some water and the whole thing
blew up. Had his engine exam
ned three years ago by the ex-
miners and got a certificate that it
vas sound, but did not have the
He also claimed that
discharged engineer had done
ONE dirty work. and said that he
lad expected the boiler to blow up.
VAS THE ENGINE TAMPERED WITH?
George Hawkins and the reporter
xamined the safety valve, and