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Show By 17. TJ. Telegraph. J A BOILER EXPLOSION. Columbus, 21. The boiler in the brush and wire shops, located inside the wulls of the Ohio penitentiary, ex ploded just as the convicts were going to work, demolishing a three-story building in which it was located, and badly damaging Huff's cooper shops and fiiir ciwn found rr. near by. I here were eighty five men in the brush shop at the time, and though a large number were injured, some very seriously, seri-ously, no one was killed outright. There aro now in tho hospital thirty-two thirty-two men more or ltss injured. The engineer and fireman in charge were boih buried under a great pile of brick 1 and limber, but were dug out alive. The engineer is unable to give aoy explanation ex-planation with regard to the explosion. |