St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-22
BLASTED BY BOILERS.
Four Men Killed and Mangled
by an Bursted Boiler Near
st. Louis.
TWO Others Will Die as a Re-
suit Of Fearful Injuries
Sustained.
ELL Boilers Explode and Do
Horrifying Execution in
Michigan.
Seven Wopkmen Mutilated
and Dead at the Scene Of
the Wreck.

ST. LOUIS, March 21.-F0ur men were
killed, two fatally injured and three
slightly injured this afternoon by the
explosion of a boiler at the Laclede
Friedrich works, Cheltenham. Follow
lrg is the list of victims: Killed-Joseph
Beckley, brick layers apprentice; John
Bubuchy, machinist; Reinold Deidecke,
pan feeder; Larry Hessy, molder. In
iured--Frank Seger, fireman, fatally;
George Inman, fatally; John Cellert,
engineer. slightly; James Summerfield,
Iaborer, slightly.
The explosion occurred in the main
building of the works. The two boilers
were located at the south side of the
building and covered by shed. But
Dne Of the boilers exploded. Seven
men were at work on the roof of the
shed repairing the whistle at the time.
The boiler divided in half, and one
half was carried clean over the main
building and landed on the road on the
opposite side of the street. The other
half of the boiler was carried ten or
twelve feet. Frank Seger, the fireman,
was blown into creek thirty feet dis
tant, and was fished out some moments
later. He was badly burned and
scalded, but still alive. The four men
who were killed were
All Terribly MangIed.
Seger was taken to the city hospital,
and the other injured were also brought
to st. Louis. The noise of the eXplo-
SION attracted people for miles, and so
many gathered at the works that the
police had difficulty keeping the crowd
l. Il ho6 fn IN ch NJ
down for the day. The shock was felt
for blocks away, while the report could
be heard for miles. For minute or
two after the accident mass OF escap-
ing steam. smoke and dust Obscured
everything from view. When it had
cleared away it was seen what awful
ruin. the explosion had wrought.
The Workmen in the building rushed
over to the spot where the boiler had
stood as soon as they recovered from
their fright, which for few moments
completely unnerved them. They took
In the situation Ill moment. and l0St
no time in rushing over to the wreck 10
learn whether any one had suffered by
the accident, and TO do what they could
for them. AS they approached the spot
the cries of the men pinioned i'll the
wreck Informed them that their fears
for their companions safety were we'll
founded. Men Setto work with q vim
TO rescue those in the wreck. AS soon as
the officers of the company learned OF
it they dispatched two amDulanceS and
physicians 10 the scene to do what they
could toward relieving the sutferings OF
the injured.
Bead AWfully Mangled.
The boiler house was completely
wrecked, the five uninjured boilers be-
Ing unSealed and Diled in heap. Fire
started in the ruins, but was put out be-
fore the flames reached the bodies of
the dead and wounded, and they were
gotten out after much effort, mangled
only by the explosion, but by that in a
terrible manner. Beckley and Dubuchy
were blown high in the air, while Die
doke's body was found on the third
floor of the clay-miXing building, hav-
ing fallen from so great height as to
break hole in the roof. passing through
10 the floor below it. Every bone
in the body was broken and
the head and face crushed beyond
recognition. Dubuchy. who was as
Sistant engineer, was blown high in the
air. and tell on the roof of the general
ing house a qniyering, trembling mass
of blood, flesh and bones. Beckley
landed on the roof of the main building
also horribly crushed. All three of
these men were undoubtedly blown at
least 100 feet in the air. and falling
struck so heavily as to mash them out of
all sembance to human shape. They
never knew what killed them.
Hussey was found iii the ruins of the
boiler house crushed between the un-
sealed boilers. He lived but few min
utes after he was found, but never
spoke. All four of the dead were SO
horribly scalded that the flesh peeled
off wherever touched. The wounded
men were at work in the immediate
vicinity of the exploding boiler, and
were wounded by flying debris, by
steam, and by the force of the explosion
itself, which hurled them hundred
feet away, one, 1nman, being blown
across the River des Peres. The pecu-
mary loss to the company is $4,000 to
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