Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-11-03
CUT OFF SIX LIVES.
Explosion Of a Boiler in q
Gotham Stable.
OTHER DEAD NAY BE IN The aUISa

q Dosea rersons Snjured and the Butla.
Tag Wrseksd-The boiler DisWs Across
she Street and the Air FILLED With Flying
Dessss-TwO Men Have Both leg. Ead!y
Dsshsa-Terribie Disaster Reported e
ses-Thirty- Loot
NEW YORK. Nov. :. Six :nen dead, 9th.
ors supposed to be dead under the ruins, q
dozen persons injured, several horses dead
and property damaged to the exten, o.
about slo,cc0. !. the sum :o,a Of the hsvo.
wrought by the explosion Of n boiler here.
u was In the stables Of the Dry Dock and
Battery Stree, railway on East Twenty
fourth street, between Avenues A aud b.
Following Is q list Of the dead 20 far a.
known: John Armstrong. engineer;
Thomas Hasson. !aborcr; Samuel Mullen.
driver; John Royal. lampman; Joseph II.
0uiaa, laborcr; Charles Bre>lin. IaSorer
List sfshe BADLY lsjursa.
OF the injured this IL but partial list,
- masy who were hurt disappeared from
sAs seepe: Michael Mcdonald. both legs
fsaesured below the knees: Patrick o Don
nell. both thigh bones fractured and
bruised about the body; Mn. Jacob Sol
6ingss. cut By aging glass; Annie Gala
eAss. badly bruised BY flying Debris; John
1sessA. cut b. 0ying glass; John Ruhi,
sesuck By falling timbers: Myrtle Gala.
eAss, cot By ayias glass; john Rhein.
max, cut By glass.
Thess employed IN The stables Who lived
1sas b I'D juss sesusnsd from lunch. In
e1oe pustt0o q TIE stables TO which the
e1psas1oa was eooAsed about aft<en men
0ssU as worn mostly on the ground 00or.
III 6atDdin6b shrre stories and a bTtck
-boskise up cusn and grain.
~ Ar Wss eSs,sa WSsh DsSrtA
a terrible cs1Ah Wa heard and The air
1ee ,O yarus in every direction vas filled
With teiekA ti0ters. iroa and debris Of
svvsy esscripsioa. A great volume Of -
eoptAG steam ssarrd and hissed above the
euoolI In . short time. however, is had
o1Aaasesd itself aud through the dust
oeald b sen the picture Of wreck and de-
ses.esioa The ensir~ frunts q The two
sable buildings, Ms. Is and So, had
hssa blown into the street. The .econd
0oos, on which via bar ked huudieds IL
sses q fodder. fell. goiny through into the
cellar. Next the roof fell. Toe destruc.
sSoe u the building was complete.
blew she Boiler Aervss The osrsre
~ D<Sssoso6 OPboSstcs ovSokOSy utuC8
Tenement with two stores and eight dwell.
Ing apartments occupied, presented .
strange appearance. Directly 10 front Of
The window Of . saloon. KEPT BY John Ruhl,
lay the boiler II was Of the Lowe patent
make. Manufactured u Bridgeport, Conn.
sour feet six inches In dancer By ~ feet
% leagth. There was scarcely bulge in
~ eide. About the bottom it showed that
lie immense cylinder had been torn out at
shs roots.
Rev Wasa'S u ''0eass Fsilurs9''
Sergeant Washington Mullin, Of the
heller inspectioo bureau. says the explosion
Was caused By IN overpressurs. Enginees
Asmsesusg. Il b said, was NOT licensed "a
sun boiler % the pattern that exploded.
u was Lowe patent boiler and he va
ealy permitted By law TO run tubulas
Aosiaootai boilse. Armstrong was EN-.
ployed 10 the Corieafs street d able Of the
railway company and had only come up
for the day. Far into the night gang oi
lAbossss were at work clearing the wreck
away. The bodies Of dozen horses wers
dragged out.