Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-08-17

 at the railroad rouPd-house at
 , o'clock this afternoon, resulting in
 the complete destruction of the
 above building, the probable fatal
 injury of three men, and the com
 plete wreck of engine No. ? of the $. F. F. < F. railroad.
 The wounded are:
 Joseph Brown, machinist, badly
 cut and crushed about the head. His death IS expected at any mo ment.
 E. NJ. Seaman, day hostler. left arm blown of, left leg broken, and
 burned and cut about the head, re-
 sulting in his death within an hour
 after the accident.
 C.C. Chambers, railroad engineer.
 badly burned, cut and bruised. . W. E. Madden, Gus Earth, Will mot Pentland, Jess Simon and Hen " Klotz were all in the round house
 at the time of the accident, but mi
 raculously escaped without injury.
 The exact cause of the explosion could not be ascertained. It was learned that Brown was at work on the engipe and had steam up. Some stated that he was adjusting the blow of or pop" wave on top of the boiler, while others stated that he was at work adjusting the air pump with the steam.
 Ono fact IS self evident to any one witnessing the wreck, and that is there was terrible steam pressure, to caGse the devastation and ruin which occurred. The entire outside of the boiler and steam chest, weighing between four and five tons, was blown a distance of 1000 to l,200 feet, lodging in the Bash- ford d-Burmister companys ware house, opposite the Catholic. church, demolishing the front part of the building.
 The air pump weighing over 200 pounds was hurled with tremendous force, whistling over buildings and landing in the street near the post office three blocks from the scene of the explosion. Pieces of bolts were found in the plaza and pieces of pipes and crooked and twisted pieces Of steel were found strewn all over the town for a distance of three blocks.
 The force of the explosion seemed to have been towards the town en- tirely as but little wrekage was thrown in the opposite direction.
 The immense driving wheels of the engine which are forced on their axles under pressure of from eighty to ninety tons were forced of their axles by the steam. s
 The steam pipes of the boiler ; were an indescribable mass of twisted and warped pipes.
 A lucky feature connected with the explosion was that the wreckage was lifted upwards by the force of T the steam, as if it had blown out c 'ideway, horizontal with the ground, V t would have swept everything be- ' lore it. As it was, no one was injured ex- Ii 'ept those in the building, though a = lumber of very narrow escapes are il eported. Q M. H. Dodge and Captain Donald to on were standing in the street b alking, in front of the Catholic U hurch, at the time of the explosion, ., .. ir. Dodge facing the railroad. He ., avs that before any sound reached b, i'm he saw an immense piece of iron to iise from the ground and start O 0' trough the air headed directly for Q, lem. In an instant afterwards the th oise of the explosion reached his to ATS, but be said it seemed as if the nmense mass of iron would cer- M inly strike tkem. It lit within bout fifty feet of where they were eA One of B. H. Weaver's drays was Issine along the street and was W Wws thin about thirty or forty feet of e boiler when it lit. The air-pump, which landed in Se Se e middle of Cortez street. bounded 'out forty or fifty feet from where o struck, like rubber ball. lighting oC. 0S' close proximity to a woman who IS just crossing the street. Occu- =, nts of A. J. Heads residence were wo dly frightened by the shrieking, lging noise of the pump as it i'm. ssed over the house. iss The reverse lever of the engine. f tn about ten or twelve feet of the bee el bar connected with it was ing 'wn nearly to the Sisters school. der 'ces of pipe were blown in the can eets, in the alleys, iu vacant lots gat scattered about promiscuously. na. in Engine No. 9, which was standing r an adjacent track, in the round mn,