Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-26
FRIoArFuL EXPLOSIONS.



terrible explosion took place at East
Jordan, this county, at an early hour
Monday morning. The big mill of the
East Jordan Lumber Company was
torn to atoms, six men were instantly
killed and several fatally injured by the
explosion of the boilers. The mill
had been running but ten minutes
when there was an awful shock and
the roof and all but one end of the mill
was rent asunder. The inside of the
big building is complete wreck. The
noise of the explosion was heard at
this place, Ia miles distant, and sew.
eral carloads of people and physician
started at once for the scene Of the &C.
cident.
The six men who were killed out
right or died in few minutes were:
Arbutus Cook, viii Beach, Simon Car.
ney, j. c. Brown, Peter Sheldon and
Manney Hunt. A. Christy, the head
sawyer, who was stationed directly
over the boiler, was horribly mangled
and has since died.
S. Pearson, who ran the engine and
was only few feet from Christy. es-
capped uninjured. The engineer who
has charge of both mills was James
Carter. He had gone to breakfast,
leaving the fireman, John Ringle, in
charge. Ringle was in the engine
room at the moment of the explosion
and is dangerously injured, too badly
to be interviewed as to the cause of the
explosion. The other badly injured
men are James Smith, Sandy Rainhart
and Charles Brown, all of whom are in
critical condition.
1t is impossible to say what caused
the explosion. Pearson, the only man
In the mill who came out unhurt, says
tfwas probably due to low water or
90 high pressure. A boilermaker from
this place did some repairs on the
boiler last week and it is said that
he told the proprietors that he was
not satisfied with the job, but
owing to the peculiar situation could
not get at the work to fix it as he de-
| sired. Several men were working in
the yard and the smokestack fell on
the horse of one teamster, smashing
the cart and killing the horse. The
mill was valued at $40, 600, partially in
sured, and will be rebuilt
ST. Louis, March 22-As the result
of the explosion of boiler at the
works of the Laclede Friedrich Manu-
featuring Company, Manchester road
near Sublette avenue, in Cheltenham,
a st. Louis suburb, at 2:45 o'clock
Monday afternoon four men are lying
dead, two are fatally injured and two
more seriously hurt.
The dead are: Larry Bussey, aged
al 90
crushed to death; Reynold Diedolse,
aged 40, married, 1916 Graham avenue,
thrown 100 feet into the air; Joseph
Beclley, aged 10, single, $3.50 Colum bia
avenue, thrown 100 feet in the air and
crushed to death; Joseph Dubuchy.
aged 45, married, Brandon avenue,
thrown 100 feet into the air.
The wounded are: Frank Seeger,
aged 30, of 1880 Pierce avenue, fatally
scalded; Morgan Inman, aged 23, sim
gle, Sulphur avenue, piece of iron
blown into the skull, also hurt about
the face and body, will die; James
Summerfeld, aged so, married, 51l7
Wilson avenue, badly cut about the
face, head, neck and body, will recov.
er; John Pellel, aged 40, Morganford
road, slightly bruised and injured in.
ternally.
Several other men were shaken an6
cut, but not badly. The boiler explod
ing was one of a battery of six, which
it is supposed, ran out of water, wa.
suddenly supplied with cold water anG
the explosion followed. The boiler
house was completely wrecked, the
five uninjured boilers being unseale(
and piled in a heap.
Beckley, Dubuchy and DiedolSe wer
at work on the boiler-house putting III
a whistle at the time of the explosion
Beckley and Dubuchy were blown
high in the air, while Diedoke's bod
was found on the third floor of tn
clay-mixing building, having fallel
from so great a height as to break
hole in the roof, passing through to tn
floor below. Every bone in his bod,
was broken and the head and fac
crushed beyond recognition.
: Dubuchy, who was assistant en-
gineer, was blown high in the air. HI
fell on the roof of the generatin
house, quivering, tremb bling mass
, Beckley landed on the roof of the mai
!, building, also horribly crushed. Al
three of these men were undoubtedl
blown at least 100 feet in the air.
Bussey was found in the ruins of tn
!. boiler house, crushed between the vi
sealed boilers. He lived few mir
utes after he was found, but neve
spoke. All of the dead We're so hol
. ribly scalded that the flesh peele
! off wherever touched. The wounde
: men were at work in the immt
diate vicinity of the exploded boile
and were wounded by flying ebris, b
: the steam and by the force of the e,
. plosion itself, which hurled them 1C
feet away, one, lnman, being blow
across the river Des Peres. The p'
= cuniary loss to the company is frol
$40, 900 to S25, 900.
D Last Survivor of Trafalgar.
G LONDON, March GA dispatch frol
r Hyeres, France, announces the deaf