The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-17
4 STARTLING COMMANDMENT
AROUSED DAY STREET RESIDENTS
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Fly Wheel of an Engine Burst and tho
Hurting Chunks of Iron Demolished
in All Directions-Narrow Escape OF
Pedestrians-Houscs u Block Away
We're Pierced by tho Flying Iron.

! Day street is usually "a quiet street,
! but yesterday afternoon an incident
that would have stirred up the liveliest
street in the country occurred and the
result was that yesterday afternoon and
last evening that quiet corner of the
| town was given an unusually interesting
| topic for conversation. G. w. Blakeslea
& Sons yesterday had at work at a.
vacant lot on Waverly street, near Oak,
a steam wood saw. The work was pros
crossing with all the desired celerity In
the afternoon at 3 o'clock when
suddenly, while the men were
busy at work putting on the wood
lengths and piling up the sawed pieces,
everything was interrupted. The whole
saving machine stopped. With re-
port like a canton the fly wheel OF the
engine bursted and the pieces flew in
all directions. The belt which went 70
the saw frame Topped around for q
while and then after the workmen res
covered their senses the engine was
stopped.
The fly wheel pieces scared around
the locality and landed in divers places.
Some cut through the rear by trees,
tapping off branches while others sailed
away and entered houses and buildings
near by. When the wheel bursted John
johnson of No. 11O Asylum street,
coachman for F. A. Corbin, the mer-
chant tailor, was walking along Day
street with Mr.. Corbin's three-year-old
son, Harrison Corbin A light board
fence separated the lot in which the
saving apparatus was at work from
the street, but gate which opened on
the street happened to be open. John-
son and the child were about to step
into the open space in front Of this gate
when the wheel bursted One of the
pieces of the wheel. a solid iron chunk
weighing about twenty pounds, came
hurtling through the gate not more
than a foot in front Of Johnson and the
boy and struck the ground near them.
Another chunk coming like a cannon
ball struck the ground just inside this
gate opening and scattered the dirt
and gravel over johnson and the child.
At the same instant another piece Of
the wheel struck limb OF tree over
their heads and cut 1t off like straw.
The limb, about four inches in diameter,
fell and Mr.. johnson, although dazed by
the force of the explosion and by the
storm of gravel and dirt which struck
him, saw it coming and pulling the
child towards him, he caught the force
ST the outer branches Of the falling
limb, ana protected little Harrison Corr
bin from blow which would undoubt-
edly have seriously injured him.
While this was happening people liv-
ing in the immediate vicinity We're
lodging the pieces of iron flying about
as though shot from cannon. One
piece of the metal flew across the street
and going between Thomas Kilbrides
saloon and the house OF Frank Clancy.
a trolley car conductor next door, it
shot across the back yards and went
through second story window of the
house of man named Hall on. Waver-
ly street. After shattering the panel OF
glass the chunk Of iron struck book
case and demolished it. The force OF
the propellant was then expended and
the piece Of iron was picked up shortly
by the demoralized members
Of Mr.. Halls family.
Another piece of the wheel flew
straight for G. w. Blakeslee & Sons
barn and striking the roof tore through
1t hole about four feet in diameter.
Other pieces cut limbs from trees on,
Dwight street on the other side Of the
block and the entire neighborhood was
terrorized, but luckily no one was hurts