New-York tribune., 1908-01-26

weeks. that OF the men mad lett tutT 1''
y rush Of orders had kept the company from making
the necessary repairs IN time.
When Flywhees Explode
A Nd even in ordinary factories the tlywheel may
become more deadly than any shrapneI ever
raurned INTO artillery breach. One hardly pick
ny an engineering journal without noting hvwhcel
explosion. ] myself counted eighteen IN two months,
and MANY more are unrecorded altogether. The
engine Is wrecked costly machinery ruined build
ings damaged, and all persons m the path of the
FLYING cast IRON missiles are either killed or badly
manned.
In Iulv. zoos. thirty-foot fvvhecl, weighing
seventy thousand pounds and revolving at three
and q half miles a minute. burst in mill at Curuber-
land Marvland The whole building was instantly
wrecked and the roof thrown down on the workers,
of whom two were killed outright and ten mangled
One such accident may DO one hundred thousand
dollars worth of damage here are no safe NY
wheels. the insurance companies say. because no
machine viii run continuously without some accl-
dent
mill in Cleveland. y powerful engine running
smoothly and 1T normal speed, when the governor
belt broke and the engine began to race. There
were safety devices use. but these proved uuaVaI
ing Running to shut of steam. the engineer IN
his excitement got his caught IN a Sprockct
wheel and chain and could not dEcngage 1t To close
the valve. 1t a terrible position, for the man
foresaw disaster. The engine was by this time
fairly flying. Just the OIer running TO his
comrades assistance the great tWenty-foot fly
wheel, weighing tOrtV-tIght thousand pounds. burst
Both men struck down, and everything wrecked
in the path of the broken monster. One fragment
weighing over thousand pounds was hurled
through the roof for eight hundred feet and IN
falling wrecked a house. The steel roof truSSes
cut like pipe stems. heavy gIr6ers smashed
INTO shaPeless masses. and brick walls battered
down
With exploding boilers the risk is even greater
and all the great insurance companies employ
inspectors for them-whose work. by the way. is
also extremely pcrilouS. In truth, the workman
of to-day runs more risk than anv professional
are made to promote cordial relations between
master and man, the safeguarding of life and limb
IS but little thought of
| take no heed Of purely industrial diSedSeS-the
phossy Jaw of the matchmaker miners asthma.
hatters shakes, and PotterS consumption;
drop and score OF other insidious malades that
lurk in material work room. Nor do | include
the slaughter caused by street cars. automobiles,
and general road traffic. The New York surgeons
alone baSng their figures experience and hospital
records, estimate at least hundred and fifty
New lorkS own CoronerS reported in 1000 sixty
eight deaths among the boring III subaqueouS
tunnels by compressed
must pass such trades as dynamite and gun
powder making and handling for figures are not
forthcoming Farming and numbering fatalities
also DEFY the statlStcIan. Certain 1t Is that
year sees the farmer using and more machinery
and that OF a kind more dangerous than anv factory
1t IS usually full of knives and cutting
edges, and seldom cared for But the facts are hard
to get for the victims scattered over millions
OF square miles. The same is true OF lumbermen
north, south, east, and west.
The Price of Skyscrapers
A ND we are kept almost equally in the dark
he toll Ion,