Weekly journal-miner., 1909-08-25
ILL HATED ENGINE IS
 BROUGHT TO LOCAL YARDS
cFrom Thursdays Daily,

Yesterday afternoon engine No. Il that exploded near Iron Springs, fa- tally injuring Fireman Wolfe and Lineman MeCrea, the latter two sue eumbing later to injuries at the Mercy hospital, was brought to the yards of the S. F., P. & P. here. An exami- nation of it shows that the crown sheet was blown from its position and fell into the fire box below. It was a mass of shriveled up steel, 14 feet long by about five feet across, and showed the terrific force that was behind it when it was ripped off its position. Every bolt with the excep- tion of few at the end was torn away, and near the door of the fire box.
 Locked on the tender by a piece of steel was the iron door of the fire box, when it was blown away. POr- tions of this door were missing, and it is probable that as it was splint- cred, small particles reached MT. Wolfe, causing the two fractures he received on the right leg. The cab on this engine was not seriously dam aged, but on the floor the woodwork was torn away, and lighter material in iron work was bent. On each side of the tender deep coating of dark mud was plastered, while in the up- per portion of the cab, the escaping steam with the mud begrimed that enclosure.
 An inspection of the engine showed that the occupants must have been instantly enveloped by the escaping steam, as it entered the cab from the engine door and the openings made underneath from the fire box. No explanation, however, can be made how Engineer Reese escaped this ter rife cloud of steam, except possibly that he was for a moment out of range. while Wolfe and Lineman MeCrea were in the path of it, being on the side of the engine where the fireman is stationed. Reese was thrown out of the window of his cab, when the explosion took place, and was out of the zone of the escaping steam, the main volume passing to the left of the box occupied by the engineman, but later it enveloped all of the cab as well, and ripped every thing in that portion of the eOmpart- ment
 As strange as it may seem, noth- ing in the equipment of the engine in the cab room was injured, except the glass tubes and the lesser at taehments on the many valves.
 Engineer Reese is said to have acted heroically when he recovered his senses after the explosion and brought all his physical powers into action. Later, however, he collapsed, and for long time did not seem to realize anything. Yesterday, however, the re- action came about, and he eOnversed freely and intelligently and in few days will be entirely we'll and out of the care of physicians.
 Reports last night at II o'clock from the Mercy hospital stated that Joe Reese was in excellent condition, and was gradually recovering from the shock of the accident. His at tending physician stated that no alarm whatever need be felt over his recovery. He escaped the steam burns, and not a mark is he carry ing, nor is he injured internally. He is also capable of walking around, and in a few days will be on the streets. In speaking of the accident Reese says that at the time of the explosion he had his hand on the throttle, and that there was not the least warning that anying was work ing improperly in the machinery, that if anything was wrong his hand would have instantly detected it. He re membered but one thing, and that was that when the shock was felt he was going through the cab window.
 Mr. Reese has a host of friends here and in railroad circles in the southwest who will be pleased to hear that he is rapidly recovering.