The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-06-21
I SERIOUS lCClDENT.
". ]. Hammond Narrowly Es.
capes Death from a Boiler
Explosion
WHILE IN NEW ORLEANS,
one Man Killed, Ten Wounded
A Boiler That Was to Have
Been Used in K0sciusko
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Mr.. w. ]. Hammond was il
New Orleans last Monday mornin,
with a party Of gentlemen from
EllisviIle testing the compress ant
boiler that had been bought fo
Kosciusko; but which will not BE-
located here. Soon after steam
was raised the boiler exploded
with terrific results, killing one
man in three feet of Mr.. Ham.
mond, stunning and bruising the
latter, and wounding nine others
two Of them fatally. Mr., Ham.
mond returned home Tuesda,
morning with a bruised leg and a
heart full of thankfulness for his
narrow escape from an awful death
The occurrence is thus related b\
the Times-Democrat:
While the Union Cotton Press
was being tested yesterday morn.
Ing about $40 o'clock for the in.
spection of a committee from Mis-.
sissippl representing recent pur-
chasers, an explosion occurred in
the boiler room, which killed Mr..
Clem B. Penrose outright and Sc
rlously wounded a number of 9TH
ers.
The building was badly wreck
ed A section of the massive boil
er, ten feet in length, was blow n
across the street, piercing the
onck wall of the independent
branch yard of the Shippers Press
llke paper, and continuing on its
course, eat two massive posts in
I've before Spending its foaoa and
falling ia The yard.
The force was terrific. The
VANS o1 me compress totterec and
iell inward, burying Nj, Penrose
beneath the debris, while Ayina
BRICK lojured q number of specta-
tors within Few feet hina.
Mr. Clem Penrose remarked to
MS brother tnat he did rot like The
appearance of the boilers. and said
lhey had better get cut OF the
pace by q strange fate he was
The oaly one of the party not to
acton his owa advice, end by lall-
ure to do so 4e was the onlv to
one to meet death. As
ne was Leaving the place an ac-
qaalntance said: "Ma. Penase.
allow me to introduce Mr.. Kan
mond. " Mr.. Hammond was one |
o. The Mississippi gentlemen who
was v examining the press. Mr..
tehfese stopped to chat, after .ex-
Vnt.nslng the usual courtesies, and
while SO engaged IA slight defect IN
'iV machinery caused q temporary
,'Op' 1t was the breaking of
oO'' *hlch was repained by the
.e'eiiaan !, with a piece Of wire, end
uie Jest was resumed. The signal
!" resume, however, had hardly
0een gwen before there was
a TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
;, Mr. Fenrose was standing under
me arched wall, and a mass Of de.
y, 0,'s buried him Mr.. Hammond.
4'o was standing only a few feet
~; apin l'lin, was behind a large post, '
y s,ach was the only thing that saw |
u u hlln from being similarly man
,eu- '. AS 1t was, he looked up on t
eanhg the explosion, and saw a t
~ we piece of timber falling in r
ne 10 strike him on the head. h
y " leaned forward and saved him s.
y, out again saw piece offying "
NO aoer descending, and had to rnake S,
v'ner y; Jump, in order to avoid
l'.s MT. He was struck by other I
'o'1s' however, and knocked cl
useless, and when he recovered B
~. was lying on the floor in am tv
~ shop, while soothing b<
n0lls ! We're being applied to sew pl
: painful wounds on his right eli
eli