Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-28
One KILLED, Two Others
Die al Manchester, Nh.
Steam Pipe in New Power House
Burst Monday Morning.
One Of the Probably Fatally Injured.
Crazed by Pain, Swan Canal.

athlete, Is years of age. His death
was due to inhafing steam The other
dead are Frank Cassidy of Manchester,
who was instantly killed, and Horace
c. Crawford of Dorchester, who died
injured, but it was said tonight that
all would recover. The explosion was
due to the blowing out of the Dead
end of a 12-inch steam pipe, which
filled the interior with scalding steam
Manchester, n. f.. March 27.-One
man was instantly killed, another died
from his injuries shortly afterwards,
two We're seriously and five others
painfully scalded as the result of the
blowing out of the dead end" of r.
inch steam pipe in the new power
house of the Amoskeag Manufacturing
cos. plant here today. The dead:
Frank Cassidy of Manchester.
Horace {. Crawford of Dorchester
Mas.
Two men. Frank Dyer and James
Mcfarland, both of this city, were ter
ribly scalded by escaping steam. They
were taken to the Sacred Heart hos
pital, where it was said that Dyer
would probably succumb to his burns.
Cassidy was instantly killed when the
dead end" of the big pipe blew out,
under 70-pound pressure, and Craw-
ford died few hours later at the
Sacred Heart hospital.
Immediately after the explosion the
officials of the company closed the
gates leading to the plant and denied
admission to everyone. All information
concerning the accident was refused
by the officials for time.
OF the eight men injured, only three
were Sc badly hurt as to necessitate
their removal to hospital. The men
taken to the Sacred Heart hospital
were James Mcfarland and Frank
Dyer of this city and Horace C. Craw-
ford of Dorchester Mass.
The Interior of the power house was
not seriously damaged by the explo-
sion All of the victims We're scahed
by the escaping steam.
Tho power house was a new struc-
ture that had been operating for a few
months only, and was used to gener-
ate electric power for the operation of
the Coolidge mill, one of the factories
of the Amoskeag plant. There was a
big steam pipe. IL inches in diameter.
from which smaller pipes branched off
and the main pipe terminated in what
is technically called dead end" 1t
was .he dead end" that blew out to-
day.
The accident occurred shortly before
I o'clock as the operatives We're enter
ing the mills.
The explosion did not cause any sus-
pension of work in the factories. as a
new dead end was fitted to the pipe
within a few moments after the blow
out.
1t is believed that there was some
defect i'll the dead end" inasmuch as
it was subjected to only 20 pounds
pressure and had been tested to 1870
pounds.
Frank Dyer. one of the injured, is a
Wcll-known athlete of this city. He
graduated from High school recently
and was learning the textile business
at the Amoskeag plant. He was un-
der the pipe when the explosion oc-
CURED, and was terribly scalded. He
jumped through a window and swan
across the canal. being picked up on
the opposite bank in state of collapse.
At the hospital it was said that he
Woull probably die.
The new power house contained Ga
boilers of 200 horsepower each, which
operated turbine engines that gener-
atcd electrical power to the extent of
5000 horsepower.