St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-15
EXPLOSIVE EMEUTE.
Eleven Men Injured by a Lo-
connective Explosion at
South Park.
Four Of Them Are Seriously
Sealded and Seven Escape
Slightly Burned.
The Crown Plate Of a Switch
Engine Yields Under
Slight Pressure,
Scattering Steam Over Work
men at the Kansas City
Railroad Shops.

-Four employees were seriously injured
and seven others scalded and hurt by
the explosion of the boiler of LOcomO-
tive No. 81, lat the Kansas City line shops
yesterday afternoon.
The extensive plant of the railway
company is located at South Park,
where a startling noise excited the peo
pie at 2:30 o'clock. Hundreds of men
gathered around the wreck, and many
willing hands helped TO remove the
scalded sufferers to the adjacent build
ings.
The locomotive had been steamed up
by Engineer John May and Fireman j.
Slavin, and it had run from the machine
shop, where it had just been repaired,
to the transfer track at the corner of
the machine shop and near the main
line of the railroad. 1t was generally
believed that it had about $50 to 40
pounds of steam on. The explosion
made a rent in the right hand side of
the fire box two feet long and six inches
wide, exposing the fues to view
and lifting the massive engine
fully foot into the air.
The force also sent the
engine about half length forward.
broke off the thick axle of the first right
hand side driving wheel, and when the
spectators reached the wreck the huge
machine was found with all the wheels
on the ties except those of the forward
trucks. 1t was distressing spectacle
to see the strong men lying there with
ing with pain, some unconscious, and it
lOnl-an a thnnnb cnunrol
surely die. The names of the injured
were:
CLANCY, JOHN. machinist residence St.
Paul. Scalded and burned all over. Knee
cap split. Scalp wound on top of head.
Scalp not fractured, hutinjuries may be fatal.
M'GRAIL MARTIN. chargeman, st. Paul.
Both arms and left side badly burned Face.
neck and right leg scalded and bruised.
MAY, JOHN, engineer, Minneapolis. Face
badly burned, scalded and cut Simple
fracture of left leg at the ankle. Bad burns
on palm of hand and inside of wrist. Right
eye seriously injured by cinder.
DICKSON, JAMES, general foreman of
the shops, South Park; face badly scalded.
head bruised.
sLAvIN, j.. locomotive fireman, St. Paul;
severe scalds.
GRAHAM, JOHN, machinist, South Park;
hand and foot scaldeu, not seriously.
NEWMAN, CHARLES Il. machinist, South
Park; knocked insensible by being struck in
the abdomen. He regained consciousness
ana was able TO go 10 MS nome.
FIELD, DAVID A, car repairer. 1904 Mis-
sissippl street. st. Paul; arm slightly burned,
face slightly scalded.
FOX, FRANK, boilermaker, 122 South
Wabasha street, ST. Paul; head slightly
DAVIDSON, WILLIAM, machinest, South
Park. Chest bruised slightly,
JONES, JAMES, painter Knocked down
by the conclusion and slightly bruised.
DR.. Perry II. Willard, surgeon of the
linn ar1.i4r c.
al quarter past three in the afternoon.
He found five victims on improviSed
beds in the boiler room. three in the
office of Master Mechanic Reed, two at
the Grand hotel. and others
at their homes in South Park.
The doctor applied himself at once
TO relieving the sufferers, and five of
the number were taken on stretcherS to
a baggage car. which was brought to the
scene by a special engine, and were re-
moved to st. Joseph's hospital. Their
Martin McGrail, William Davidson and
d. A. Field. They we're met at the
union depot and conveyed carefully to
the hospital in two patrol wagons and
two express wagons. Assistant Surgeon
Lewis, of the West side, also went to
South Park and looked after the pa
tientS.
DR.. Miller, of St. Joseph's hospital,
and Assistant City Physician Green
said at late hour last night that the
sufferers at the hospital were doing
well in view of their injuries. j. Clan
cey was resting nicely. and when awake
was conscious and rational. David A.
Field went to his home last evening,
and DR.. Miller expected that William
Davidson would be able to go
home to day. DIR. Willard was
seen late last evening and expressed the
opinion that all would recover and that
some of them would be at work again
in three of four days.
All of the men were busy in their re-
spective positions at the time of the ex-
plosion. Charlie Newman was stand
Ing Oh top Of the engine setting the
props on top of the drum when the
shock came that landed him
OH the ground. He was un-
conscious for time, but escaped
without serious injury, and when he
opened his eyes he wanted to know
what had happened. The headlight rim
Of the locomotive was blown over the
wood working department almost to the
paint shop-abOut a hundred yards
The side and throat sheets were torn
thirty yards to the brick wall
of the wood shop. The coal
shovel flew from the cab to the
roof of the machine shop aud pieces of
iron-one weighing about 100 pounds
shot thr ugh the glass of the doors into
where the carpenters had just been
busy. The ash pan and CRATE bars lay
broken into pieces under the trucks.
Various causes for the accident were
suggested last evening, but no Satisfac-
tory conclusion was arrived at. 1t will
be the subject of a careful inyestiga-