Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-12-21
WITH GREAT FORCE
d BOILERS EXPLODE
Pittsburg Scene of Another
Terrible Disaster.
FIVE MEN KILLED OUTRIGHT

Many Others More or Less Severely
lniured-one Boiler Hurled High In
Air and Crashes through Residence.
Panic Ensued Among workmen.
Pittsburg, Dec. 20.-The Black Dia.
mond Steel works Of Park Bros. on
! Thirtieth street, was the scene this
morning OF an awful accident ia which
at least FIVE workmen lost their lives
and II were injured. Reports are free
ly circulated that from 10 to 80 were
killed. and it will not be known just
how many are dead until the wreck
age is cleared away.
Four Boilers Explode.
It was about 4.I5 O'Clock as the
night crew was about to turn over the
mill to the day force that four boilers
in the 10-inch bar mill No. exploded
with terrific force, scattering death
and destruction in all directions. The
mill was completely wrecked and the
debris Is piled from so to rs feet high
joining the Black Diamond mill. we're
also destroyed. A force of men went
to work as quickly as possible after
the explosion searching in the debris
for bodies. Five dead and u injured
have already been removed. The dead
have not been identified and the bodies
are now at the morgue. The injured
We're re.soved to the West Pennsyl.
vania hospital facsr names are:
Thomas Elliott. aged 28. laborer;
three severe scalp wounds.
Albert Gesiesch. furnace hand; two
fingers blown of and several scalp
wounds.
Robert Street, negro; arms bruised.
Alexander Wasseelo. charger of the
furnace; left leg broken and scalp
wounds.
T. Valentine Perniski. right leg broken
and scalp wounds
Jacob Chesnolanes, aged 30; two fin.
gers blown off and burned about face
head, hands and body.
Isaac Washington, aged 40, heater;
scalp wounds and left arm bruised
William Steinbaugh, mill hand;
chest bruised and breastbone frac-
tured
Peter MilSosky, helper; scalp wounds
and back burned
John McClusky, helper; face and
hand burned
Monroe Larkins, negro. aged 25;
arms bruised and burned.
Joseph Cunic, badly cut and injured
about the head.
From what can be learned the four
boilers exploded at one time, reducing
the mill to heap of burned and char.
red timbers and twisted iron. There
is not straight piece of iron or steel
left in the entire building.
The mill has 60 men on each turn,
and it is thought that both crews were
in the plant at the time of the explo-
sion.
Panic Ensued.
All the night men were clad in their
scanty working attire. When the boil.
ers exploded a panic ensued and all
the men that were able rushed to the
street. The injured and known dead
were found under wreckage and in the
millyard
The No. 10-inch mill was a big,
iron-clad structure, buff on a steel
frame. One OF the boilers went clean
through the Park Bros mill and crush
ed into the McNeill plant, almost de-
molishing it. The only man at work
in the McNeill plant was Rudolph
Korff, the night watchman. He was
knocked down by the force of the ex.
plosion.
Another of the boilers went through
the roof of the bar mill. scared through
the air across Thirtieth street and
crashed into the residence of Robert
Prince. 1t went through the front
wall and fell into the cellar complete
ly wrecking the house. Price and his
family were asleep at the time and
had to rush to the street in their
night clothes.
The other two boilers were blown
to pieces. and it was those that caused
the complete destruction of the mill.
The biting cold winds made the res
cue work slow and painful. Just what
the extent of the loss VIII be to the
Park Bros. company and the McNeills
is not known, but 1t is variously esti-
mated from $4,000 to 100000.
EELOW AT CHATTANOOGA.