Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-26
AWFUL ACCIDENT
IN PRINTING OFFICE
Gasoline Engine Exploded in
Telluride Journal Com.
posing Room.
ONE DEAD AND TWO INJURED

Telluride. Colo, Oct. 24.-One dead,
two dangerously, and many other
more or less badly injured, is the re-
suit OF an unfortunate plumbers care
lessness in adjusting the feed pipe
leading from a gasoline tank to the
burner of a linotype machine being
installed in the Daily Journal. office.
The explosion occurred at about y
a. M. The dead and seriously injured
are:
j. A. Stuart, plumber, dead.
Miss Mamie E. Reed, compositor,
may die.
E. D.. McKown, c%ompositor, badly
injured.
The Journal had just lately pur-
chased the linotype of the late de-
funct Telegraph of Durango, and
which had been set up last Saturday
by Mr.. Malley, a machinist-operator,
who is TO have charge of the machine
and operate it. In tie installation OF
the machine it was necessary to have
a plumber put in a feed pipe from the
gasoline tank, which had been placed
on the outside of the rear of the build
ing, to the burner under the machine,
which was done by Mr.. Stuart.
Monday morning Mr.. Malley put a
gallon of gasoline in the tank to test
the connection and the working of the
machine. Finding that the fluid was
either leaking or clogged up, he call
ed in Plumber Stuart and explained
to him the difficulty. 1t being a chilly
forenoon a stove in the room was
kept red hot. Stuart, unnoticed, walk
ed back and. reaching up, unscrewed
un NolhNvr't ,f thn nina without nraN,
iously shutting of the flow, and i'm
mediately was almost saturated witt
the fluid, it running down profusely
upon the floor. The fumes rapidly
spread in the air and in a twinkling
encountered the red hot stove anC
there was a short but intensely hot
explosion, the flames of which, follow
ing up the opened feed pipe, in a sec
ond explosed the gallon of fluid in the
tank outside.
The shock of the explosion was sc
great as 10 break al of the nearby
windows, burning copy" in a puff
and destroying "ad" memorandum
etc.
Stuart. whose clothes were saturat
ed at the first explosion, resembied {
ver!tabl9 ball of fire and at the same
Alilt kAC ClONAllIS vi SOAiB NAN
Kown and Reed also took fire. The!
ran out into the street where passers
by rushed on and smothered the
flames consuming the victims, whC
were Immediately taken to the office.
of Doctors Hadley 4 Hadley. Stuar
was unconscious from the first ant
must have suffered terribly but OPT
ates were given and all known Il
medical science was done for him
but he died at as.
Miss Reed was most severely burn
ed all over the body.
f. n. McKOwn had all of the hal.
burned from his head, and his hand
and face badly burned.
A. j. Stuart, the dead plumber
leaves a wife ard two daughters Il
mourn him. He was a native of Eng
land. where his other remaining rela
tIves live, and was about As years ole
He was a member of the A. o. U. w
in which order he carried $4,000 in
surance. He also belonged TO tn
Maccabees, in which he was insure
for s. 1000, and had an Old line polio.
for $1,000. A total insurance OF 50
600.
Miss Mamie Read is an estimabl
young lady, whose mother lives a
Ouray and who is now at her untol
tunate daughters bedside, having a.
rived late last night. Miss Read ha
been some two years with the Joul
nal