Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-10-18
TIRTHY-SIX BOILERS BLOW UP.
Series of Terrific Explosions Occur at Il
ColIiery at Shamokin, Pa.

Shamokin, Pa Oct. 11.-EoEr men
were killed. two fatally injured ana sew
eral others painfully burned by dls's-
trous boiler explosion that occurred AT
the Henry Clay cclliery early today. The
entire steam supplying plant OF the mime,
consisting of tnlrry-slX boilers. was &C.
molished, and i'll addition to the monetary
loss, which will aggregate S3o.vuo' the
Henry Clay, Big Mountain. Sterling ana
Peerless collieries will be unable to resume
operation for at least a month. Inc eN-
nIosion is the worst of it's kind that has
ever occurred in this region and its cause
is a mystery The dead and injured are:
THOMAS CARR fireman; leaves WIDOW
and three children; one arm ANA one les
broken Of !, and body cut tr IN 1wo leaves Wild
ow; horribly crushed and laccraled ABOUT
the body; dead when recovered:
WILLIAM L. SLICE aged Is ye3;r n,; neck p,
few minutes after being found
PETER BECK. freman;. side OF head
crushed and severe internal injuries; cannot
JACOB ]. DIDIADEM, water boss Of Ma
honey Valley; married: scalded and crushed
about the abdomen and legs: cannot re-
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN. frenmn both legs
broken and head crushed; died two hours
John FLENKFNsTEIN, married: re-
ceived very serious injuries about body;
may recover.
in the face with bricks; not dangerous.
WILLIAM QUINN of Springfield. lamp
man; cut on head and badly injured by
MTCHAEL GARRIs. switch boy. Spring
field injured by flying bricks.
It was about Z: % this morning when
the workmen at the Henry Clay colliery
were startled by a heavy explosion. At
the same moment a portion of the boiler
house was blown into the air and flying
bricks. sheets OF corrugated IRON and the
big boilers We're hurled i'll every direc-
ton. Several other explosions took place
The air was filled with escaping steam
and debris for Z, radius of 400 yards. and
many of the employees narrowly escaped
death.
The report of the explosion was heard
in this city, a distance of more than two
miles. The accident came upon the boiler
house employees without warming and only
one of them, Il Pole, escaped uniniured
The others We're buried beneath the mass
of debris, and some of the bodies were
not recovered for two hours. The boiler
on the western end of the house is sup
posed to have been the first to explode,
and then the adjoining boilers Went up
in quick succession, the repeated eXplo-
sions resembling the roar Of heavy artil-
lery. Only nine of the thrty-siX boilers
escaped total destruction and even these
were 81 bauly OdH1ttSct thdt tlitt dlc
useless. Many of the boilers were torn
apart near the center by the terrible
force and the two sections would then
take different directions. One-haif of a
boiler was hurled full quarter of a
mile and lodged in the slush bank north
west of where the boiler house formerly
stood. Another that took q similar di-
rection crashed through the side of the
breaker and lodged against the scraper
line. Another crashed through the tip
house and came near killing several en-
ployes -Four colleries will be thrown
into idleness by the accident for Il month
Or six weeks. so that the total loss will
aggregate S1OO,O 900