Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1888-11-22
BOILER BLOW UR.
'our Mon Lose Their Lives BY a
Boiler Expiosion at Butte,
Mont.
N7ive Men Drowned or Nassau, Three
or Long Island and Two or
Toledo.
Boiling Glass Escapes at a New Jersey
Factory Exciting Escape Of Work.

BuTrE Mont, Nov. 2o.-At tho old con.
'centrator Of The Boston tMont) consoIi-
dated works at Meadville, Mont, yester-
day afternoon a boiler exploded killing
John A. 1illmans, engineer; W. O'Con-
nor carpenter; Jacob Kramel, p.yefitter;
lienry Winters, laborer, and fatally in
iar'ng Richard Wing, a machinist; George
Hickman, a pipefitter, and John Eustis,
, carpenter, aud Foreman Hank Pickering
One OF the employees gave the following
particulars Of the accident, ~ was there
tsn seconds before the explosion took
Place. heckman was ON top OF the boiler
adjusting the blow Off valve and Edmunds
was on top of the ladder before the boiler.
lhe othcr men were scattered throughout
the building. The boiler that exploded was
one Of the battery OF four and In three OF
the boilers steam gauges Indicated seven-
ty-hvo pounds pressure. The other ono
Indicated hfty-flve pounds steam. The
steam was evidently turned into the boiler
that exploded from the others, thus givirs
200 pounds additional pressure, when Il
4 rent asunder, one half going forward and
I the other backward, carrying death with
It," Hickman, who was on top,iis least
hurt His escape from death is considered
miraculous. The boiler was a new one
aud considered safe, but could not stand
2VV pounds pressure going into Il at once.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
PHILADELFHtA, Nov. 2o.-The bursting
OF the blowing trough at whitney's glass
works in South Camden, N. j., yesterday
released forty tons OF molten glass
which ran In a fiery stream, setting
the works on fire aud causing con-
sternation among the workingmen.
There were 100 men employed in the
building where the trough burst and their
escape was almost miraculous. The glass
Is melted In an immense tank. When
the blowers are ready for work a huge
iron stopper is drawn out OF the tank and
the glass flows into long trough, whence
Il tisgathered by the blowers in their pipes.
The trough was partly filed with the glass
when IL burst and the molten glass flowed
TO the ground. whore IL quickly spread
over the entire building. One Of the men
shouted to the others to run for their lives.
They did so, and hardly escaped from the
building when il was one mass Of flames.
The loss 70 the building is estimated at
5000.
TWO MEN DROWNED.
ToLEDo o., Nov. 20.--Three men, Wn-
liam Ladue, William Young aud B. q.
Jacobs, employees of the glass works
started out yesterday morning in a row
boat to witness the yacht race between the
City Of the Straits and the Alice Enrighi
on Lake Erie. When a mile below Pressure
Isle the boat capsized aud Young and
Jacobs were drowned. Ladue chung &c
the boat and was rescued by a fisherman.
more dead than alive. Ladue and Jacobs
came here recently from Pittsburgh.
FATALLY BURNED.
BRIDGEPoRT, Conn.,, Nov. 90. - Mrs
Thomas Fitzpatrick attempted 70 light 4
fire this morning with a parlor match
The head fell Off, igniting her clothing
she ran down stairs enveloped In flames
Her father aud son tried TO smother the
flames and both were badly burned. An.
other sou threw water over the unfortu-
nate woman and quenched the flames
Mrs. Fitzpatrick and her father were IA
tally burned.
THREE MEN DROWNED.
FAR RocKAwAY, l.. l., Nov. 20-Fred-
erick Trenstrupp, Peter c. Peterson, Danes,
and an American whose name is supposed
50 be Arthur 'Sepli, went out rowing in a
small boat on Jamaica bay Sunday after
noon.- When but a short distance from
the shore the boat sank, and as none OF the
men could swim, they went down with It.
1--WE MEN DROWNED.
NASSAU, Nov. 21.-Pilot Evans and his
boats crew Of four men were drowned oil
the bar on November u by the capsizing
Of their boat during a squall. They were
attempting TO speak the steamer Cienfue.
gos, from New York
SCHOONER WRECKED.
PETOsKY, Mich, Nov. 20.-The report
reaches here that the schooner Hannah OF
Cleveland has been wrecked on the Fox
islands, the crew being saved.