The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-08
BOILER
EXPLOSION
At Memorial Hospital on Mon
day Severely Injuries Three
Female Employees.
DAMAGE COMPARATIVELYLIGHT

A hot water boiler in the kitchen Of
Morristown Memorial hospita; ex-
ploded just before noon Monday,
wrecking the kitchen, serving room
and servants dining room and iniur
ing three women employed in the
hospitals culinary department..
! Mrs. Jennie Henderson, colored, the
cook, was scaIded and blinded BY
steam and lays in a critical condition
in the hospitol and may lose her eye
sight. Blanche Core, colored, kitchen
helper, was struck in the face by some
flying object Of her nose broken. She
jumped from window. Mable Mack,
kitchen helper, was slightly scalded
on her right side. 81
The force of the explosion tore a
great hole in the wall between the
Kitchen and serving room, wrecked
all the crockery and glassware in the
closets, blew out all the windows in
the three rooms, as well as the doors
and their frames, tore a hole in the
floor and another in the ceiling OF the
Kitchen and forced the big range from
its fastenings out into the middle Of
the room, strewing the eatibles in
preparation for the noou-day meal all
about the floor a brick falling
through the floor broke off cock of
the water guage on the steam heater
il the basement and caused steam to
escape from that boiler too.
Miss Dora Yawirz, Of No. 16 HILL
side avenue, was ia the hospital when
the boiler exploded She rushed out
and around to the kitchen windows.
She saw the cook standing near the
window and with the aid Of Raymond
Ridge "boosted by Joseph Keating,
of Madison, to the window still and
the latter assisted the Henderson
woman out She was carried by the
trio into che hospital where she was
cared for by DIR. James Douglas aud
other physicians.
| DIR. Douglass was in the hospital
when the explosion occurred and he at
once telephoned for the automobile
chemical engine, fearing fire might re-
suit. A moment after the fire alarm
box at the Lackawanna station was
pulled and the entire department. re-
sponded. There was no panic, Miss
Cooper, head nurse, and the nurses on
each corridor, closing the doors and
assuring the fifty patients there was
no danger.
| The cause Of the explosion is not
positively known, but it is understood
that the boiler and it's outlet were too
small for the large range and its wa
terbacks and so much steam accumu-
lated in the boiler that the pressure
shut off the inflow Of cold water and
an explosion was inevitable.
A team of horses, hitched to farm
wagon and belonging to Luther
KountAe was being driven past the
hospital when the explosion occurred.
The horses took fright and ran away.
throwing the driver out The driver,
John Searles, was slightly cut about
the face and bruised The horses
dashed up Norris street and around
the park where they just missed cor
liding with the team OF Rosolute Hook
and Ladder company, which Driver
William Ridge was bringing back to
the fire house after visit to the horse
shoer lnfront OF The post office the
runaways were caught by patrolman
Herbert Q. Wildey.
While on its way to answer che
alarm at the hospital the hook and
ladder skidded on the ice in making
the turn at the foot Of Morris street.
j. Harold Payie, together with two
small ladders, ire haf and rubber
coat, We're thrown oil but neither
PaYie or what accompanied him were