Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-08-24
ECHOES FPoM THE EXPLOSION
Remarkable That in the Hail Storm of Iron and Steel Which Attended it That no Casualties
 are Reported.

Onc Oi lu6 IctudIkdLl lt lcdluIts O.
 yesterdays explosion is the fact that
 no casualties occurred except among
 those who were in the rosnd house
 at the time. The storm oi iron anc
 steel which fell within a radius ol
 three blocks m a thickly populated
 part of the town makes 1t almost
 miraculous that some one was mol either killed or injured.
 Machinist Joseph Brown, who was taken out of the ruins unconscious,
 never regained consciousness and died at the Mercy hospital at o'clock last evening. His skull was crushed in against the brain, and while the attending physicians per- formed an operation to relieve the pressure the hemoTrhage was so great that death ensued.
 Mir. Seaman was conscious and conversed until within a few min utes of his death. He begged of those about him to kill him and put him out of his misery as he realized that he could not live.
 MT. Seaman was a Good Templar and took part in the entertainment of that order on Monday night. His relatives live in Erie, Pennsylvania. They were notified of his death and they wired an answer asking that the remains be buried here.
 Brown WIS 8 member of the Red Mems lodge. His mother and other relatives live in Hamilton, Canada.
 Among the pieces of wreckage which were hurled great distances, it is reported that a piece of iron struck a building at Whipple, mile distant, occupied by Col. Me Cord.
 A large piece of iron struck the residence of MI. and Mrs. Jos. Cal les, four blocks away passing through the roof, penetrating clear through lounge and through the floor beneath. Mrs. Gales is in the habit of taking an afternoon nap on this lounge during this hour of the day but luckily on yes terday she was at neighbor's.
 The whistle or a piece of it lit in the yard of Father Quetu's resi- dence, burying itself two feet Tn the ground.
 4 piece of iron went through a window of the public school build ing.
 A large piece of boiler pipe struck the edge of the roof of the Metho- dist parsonage knocking of a few shingles and landing in the back yard.
 The five ton piece of boiler steel which wrecked the front of the Bashfurd- burmister company's ware house is said to have rised from 200 to 300 feet in the air turning over and over as it sailed through the air.
 Windows were broken in various parts of the town.
 A liyr pound piece of iron went Lhr"'irh ,he roof and floor of Brown Bros store barely misiiug a mans head.
 Two box cars were overturned by | the force of the explosion.
 Williams machine shop, located | , short distance from the round- house, suffered the loss of every window.
 The property loss to the railroad | will be about $l2OOO.
 The ruins were tbronged with l people all afternoon Tuesday until lark. Such scene of devastation having been witnessed by very few before.
 The bodies of Brown and Seaman lave been embalmed and will be 'hipped to relatives in the East by he railroad company. Wilmot Pentland will accompany the 'emsins of Seaman. while Johnny Thorpe will go in charge of Browns.
 The cause of the explosion is as much mystery as ever. The engine vas left in the yard to have its team gauge and safety valve epaired. The former had been thoroughly repaired and tested, Thile Brown was engaged in the of the valve. These 'alves are set to blow of at 1855 pounds. It had just blown of at 72 pounds, and a party who was there had been on the ngine less than four minutes prior O the explosion, who said that the Vater gauge was two-thirds full of Tater and the steam gauge denoted pressure of l74 pounds. An inquest was held today before Justice J. M. w. Moore on the emains of the dead victims. The ury rendered a verdict that the deceased persons came to their cath from the explosion of 'oiler, the cause of the explosion ( 'eing unknown. 6 The body of Brown will be escorted l o the depot at z o'clock this even 1g by members of the Red Mems Odge and fremen, while the Good 5 'emplars will escort the remains of ! eaman to the depot.
 An Old Offender.