The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-18
DEADLY PEANUT ROASTER
One of Them Lets Go on Crowded Hi
n0is Street and Causes q Panic.
Thrown Through q Plate Glass Window by
the Explosions. j. Fragee's Face
Nangled and Others Injured.

About $50 o'clock. yesterday afternoon.
q terrific explosion. followed Dy q shock
startled the business portion OF the City,
and. In an instant, q thousand people
rushed down Illinois street. whence the
sound emanated. Many people supposed
that an earthquake had come and others
felt sure that q naturai-gas horror had oc'
Cured. Luckily neither disaster had nap
pened, and when people learned the true
source of the noise there was q great wave
Of relief. Notwithstanding the fact that
those who witnessed the accident received
q fright from which they did not soon re-
cover.
The cause of the friRhtful noise was the
explosion of q steam peanut rooster stand
ing in front of the tobacco establishment
of ). j. Frazee IL Co., at No. 6I south ILL
n0is street. The engine was OF the Greater
d Co., Chicago. make and was of one horse
power. 1t was owned and operated by
Frazee, and until yesterday has behaved
admirably. The machine was runnlng az
It's capacity OF steam and without the at
tention OF or engineer when its boilers
burst. scattering peanuts to the fous winds
and throwing PARTICLES of iron In various
directions. Mr.. Frazee was standing In
side his store when the heavy plate glass
of the front window crashed into q thou-
sand pieces, the machine pitching through
1t and falling in the store. He was thrown
backward to the floor. his face literally
fayed with flying splinters of glass.
ID. j. Sullivan was standing a few feet
away in the door of his dry-RoOds store
and was narrowly missed by . heavy bar
of iron, which struck q gaudily attired
dummy standing near him, badly naming
the figure. Mr.. Sullivsn's business partner.
Mr.. FOran. was ten feet inside the store,
and was thrown down by the shock. but
not injured. Mr. SchOfeld. of the Arcade,
was also knocked down by the conclusion.
J. w. Caldwell. q commercial traveller from
Chicago. was standing in the store at the
time makin9a purchase and was severely
cut about the face by the flying glass. Ed
McGraw and Otto Schmuck were passing by
and were more or less cut about the face
and hands by the shower of glass and the
force OF the concussion threw McGrHw
clear into o store next door.
A woman, whose name could not be
learned. was in the act of trying on o cloak
In the Sullivan store, and had just inserted
one arm in the sleeve of the garment when
TO Icy aside the cloak. but fed. taking it
along. She returned later, and made the
purchase. The whistle was blown oft the
engine and across the street. through the
window of the New York steam Laundry.
Its force was terrific. but. fortunately. no
one was IN the laundry office at the time.
The awning above Frazee's store was rid
died with ascending scraps of iron. and
considerable damage was reported from
the fronts of other business rooms in the
vicinity. A lumber of people, among tn EN-
several women, received slight hurts from
the particles of glass that filled the air. but
MIR. Frazee's injuries were the most serious.
He was taken TO DR.. Markers office. where
a painful scalp wound was found, in addi-
tion TO his lacerated face.