The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1889-02-07
HORRIBLE DETAILS!
OF the Boiler Explosion
On Thursday oi Last
Week.
Two Widows and Ten Orphan
Children Lsefft to Noun,
While James 0earil,, 1t Spared
will Always Remain I'er-
tibly Disi'isurcd
Scenes and Incidents Ccnnaoied with
Gmd Surrounding the
Explosion.
Adelphi Border News.


The hofr, OF the terrible boiler
explosion Oh Tar Hollow, on
Thursday afternoon OF isst week is
: still the topic Of conversation. New
points of interest are daily being
, brought 10 The SURFACE, and the
-Nese,s viii now attempt 10 give all
the details 80 this most terrible Of
all calamlties. 4 representative OF
this paper visited the scene of tie
blow-up on Friday morning, as
vel! as the home Of Isaac Arlcdge,
where lay the remains ct his son,
ono of tho victims, and also the
Dearth shanty, in one room OF
which was the dead brother, wh lie
the other contained the mu !ilate d
form Of the wounded man.
| The Brimsto road a. this seas
Oh of the year is generally a pretty
good one, but the soft weather and
rains of two weeks S previous made it
all but desirable. Itrsguired pret
ty good horse to wade through the
five or six miles of mud, between
here and point near Pike Run.
where you leave the road to the
night and turn up Tar Hollow. Fol-
low the hollow for a mile. and YOU
come upon tho scene. On every
sido you witness the effect of the
explosion Lumber aud broken
timber scattered in every directioa,
some CT it lodging UP in bra ncies OF
trees. 4 large hole in tie ground
marked tho site where the boiler
and engine hsd stood. Pieces of
casting could be picked up any
where, Ito distance of 800 yards
Wrecked saving machinery piled
on heaps and lying loose. Lumber
was found scattered all over the hill,
south. and vicinity.
Examining the place closely, we
found tie belt, part of fly
wheel and the main part Of the
boiler fully one hundred AID ftty
yards south east from the site of
The mill, while the steam dome and
large pieces of sheeting were blown
three hunlred Yards north. The
steam chest rested on number ofl
saw logs forty yards south which i'm
peeled its progress further. It must
have struc! the logs with great
f,rce, as they were considera bly,
SCARED and ends broken. The fire
bog struck against q large pile OF
finished Lumbar and partly turned |
the same round. This was about % |
yards directly west of the mill. The
other pieces could b, found On ell |
sides of you.
We found quite large crowd Of
men at tie mill and the Dearth /
shan:y, many Of whom were famil-
lar wish the accident, and from
these we gathered in dotail, the fol-
lowing accurate account OF the ex-
plosicu and lis result.
The mill was the property of Mr..
George Dearth. one OF tho men kill
ed. James Dearth, bis brother, was
the engineer. The man who ran
the engine previously qult the job
jast the .,isht before, and James was
assigned to lie vacancy. The own
er occupied the position OF SAWYER;
Edward Starting, off bearing and
John Wesley Arledge. tail sawyer.
Arlcdge and Starting sat around
the boiler ANA ate their dinner,
while the two Dearths supplied
themselves s;milarlj at the shanty.
Dinner beng over the two
Deartiis returned to the mill, and
James DeartE, eJiateiy went
to look after his boiler. He found
the steam gnago registering l25,
and but little or no water in the
boiler He hen turned on tie in
jecior, a part of the machinery
which was sadly defective and re
lniring ut least one hundred
pounds OF steam to make it work.
The wafer had scarcely been turn-
ed On, and while the engineer still
lsd his hand on the injector, the s
,oilcr gave way with loud report. {
,aas;ng death and destruction al I
eady reported. :
Dearth the sawyer, was blown I
fly yards and his body landed M {
N the side of the steep hill, south |
f the hill. Judging by the surface !
is body lnnst have struck the s
round about so feet away an,l then
ace downward was propelled by
prGe fully twenty yards further,
nd thea finally struck a stump j
hich prevented it ircm going up "
io hill further. It is thought, IF O
lere had been no impediment in L
he way The body would hot have 6
.opDed short OF one hundred yards s
acre were no cuts Or ghastly .
-oua1s Oh the upper part Of /
)eartli' body. but there was not a q :.
one IN his limbs three inches long. e
lis spinal column was also tvactur- Z Z
d 10 several places AMI bones pro- r,
rudcd through the dcss. Of course n
G Was in stant!y killed. er