Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-11
WALLINGFORD.
Startling Explosion at the Wallace

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 There wss another serious accident at R. Wallace & Sons' yesterday morning. and it seems almost @ miracle to know that no one was seriously njured. At just twelve minutes past 10 there was startling ex- plosion in the boiler room and crash of falling bricks and escaping steam. The employees in the rooms in that vicinity made haste to get out of the buildings and seek safety elsewhere. The cause of the panic was the blowing off of a patch on the under side of boiler No. 5, and the ex- plosion demolished the brick walls between the boiler room and the tumbling room on the north side, the engine room on the west side and the blacksmith shop on the east side. The mass of falling bricks and es- caping steam filled the engine room, bsst, strange to say, did little or no serious dam age to the two 1O0-horse- power engines, although the engine room presented 8 sorry looking sight, covered as it was
 with the debris from the boiler room and
 brick partitions. Engineer Thomas Van Tassell had just left the engine room and went into the boiler room and spoke to the fireman and then went into the machine room for drink of water and was about to open the door into the engine room when the explosion occurred. Had he
 been inside the door he would have surely been killed. Fireman Charles Boodley
 was firing No. boiler when the crash came, and made jump through an open window and escaped injury. In the tum- hJ J{rrv the steam came rushing in the room. All escaped without harm except French Ca nadian named Peter Beljone, who was somewhat burned about the arms and face. There were six fifty horse power boilers in the room eide by side. The second from the north end was the one wrecked. One on each side was torn from it's place and the brickwork demolished. The boiler was the oldest of the six and was put in about fifteen years ago. Less than year ago a crack in the under side was found which was cut out and patch put over 1t, and the cause of the accident was the blowing off of the patch. A force of men were put to work at once to clear away the wrecksge, and F. A. Wallace, president of the company, stated that it was intended to start up again by Monday with one of the engines by using the three uninjured boilers. Men from the Bigelow Boiler works were here yesterday afternoon getting the requirements and two new boilers will be made and put in as soon as possible. A photographer from Hartford in the employ of the Steam Boiler and Lo- comotive Assurance company took pict- ure of the wreck, ss the company carried an insurance on the boilers, which was well insured. Only four weeks ago the large pulley on the main shaft burst and 0Anaa6 q ahnf rSnUY1 of trUo ako or1 now comes this disaster which will result in portion of the employees being out of work for several weeks at least. A report was in circulation in Meriden at noon that three boilers had blown up and that sev. ersl persons were killed.
 The football game between the Middle town and Wsllingford choir boys will be called this morning at 10 o'clock.
 G. W. Hall is able to be about again. ties and 500 poles for the electric road.
 Theodore Fritz died Thursday night of typhoid malarial fever, aged twenty seven years. His wife died only two weeks ago with the same disease, leaving four young children. He was member of Court 1 Wtndemere, A. O. F. Funeral this morn ing at g o'clock from Holy Trinity church, ]
 Rev. MT. Evsns of Northford of1icased I at the funeral of Miss May Maltby yester- | day afternoon. The bearers were D. R. Knight, A L. Judd, o. A. Phelps, 0. G. ! Phelps, Cleveland Thompson and T. s. Foote.
 Darwin Curtis fell from tree in North | Farms yesterday morning and was consid- ] erahly bruised and perhaps injured inter- nslly.
 The members of Court Windermere, A. 0. F., are requested to meet at the houss on Prince street at 9 o'clock to attend the | funeral of their late member, Theodore Fritz.
 Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co.'s works closed last night until Monday morning.
 Hall & Elton company will begin run. hing full time Monday.
 The members of St. Paul's choir football eleven are Harmon Jones center, Arthur Morgan left guard, Charles Hastings right guard, Clifford Hall left tackle, StanleyY dallenback right tackle, Clarence Lans fight end, James AcGsughey left end, ,Cl,f- ord Robinson quarterback, Clifford Parker md Frank Treat halfbacks, Fred Barber 1llback.