Show TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION EffLO SION three lives lost and great destruction wrought MINES STOPPED OF OPERATION the storm on the tha west coast of flor ida the worst in twenty five years great damage find and somo some loss or of lite life two killed in ft a boston rire A thousand barrels of whisky earned fire in colombia Sha shamokin pa oct II 11 three men were killed two seriously wounded it if not fatally and five others badly hurt by th the e explosion of a bol boiler at the explosion leing alery cl clay y cattle colliery ry this morn lne th the e entire steam supplying plant of 0 the mine consisting of thirty slit sik boilers was totally destroyed and in addition to the monetary lews ot of the henry clay ble big mountain sterling arid and peerless collieries colli coill eries will be unable to resume operations for at least a 0 month the explosion Is the worst of its aln kind d that ever secured in this region and the cause Is a mystery the dead and injured axe are thomas carr ilseman ll Il rcman reman one arm and one leg lee broken oft off and body cut in two william body fireman horribly crushed and lacerated william E stick buck neck broken and both hips fractured peter heck fireman fl reman aide of head crushed and severe internal injuries cannot recover jacob 1 D didham water boss boas ot 01 I 1 ma honey Valley scalded and crus crushed h ed cannot recover john mclaughlin fireman both legs lees broken and lead head crushed died two hours after accident john serious injuries about the body may recover scraper arid and william quinn lampman lam not dangerous it was about this morning nhen the workmen at the henry clay colliery were startled t by a heavy a explosion sion at the same moment a portion of the boller house was blown into the air and lying hying brides bricks were hurled burled in every direction several other explosions took look effect the air was 11 felled led with escaping steam and debris for a 4 radius of 40 yards yard and many of the employees narrowly escaped death the report odthe 0 the explosion was heard in this city a distance of 0 over two miles the th t accident came upon the boller houe emp employees employed loYe without war warning ing and only one of them IL a boic C escaped uninjured the others were burled buried between the moss mas ma s of debris and some of the bodies were not recovered for two hours the holler on the western end of the house la Is supposed to have been the first to explode and then the adjoining boilers went up in quick succession the repeated explosions resembled the roar of h heavy artillery er Y oitis nine of the thirty six bollers escaped destruction and these were so 80 damaged that they at are re use useless 1 as many of the boilers were torn apart near the center by the terrible force and the two sections appeared then to take different dl directions ions one halt half ot of a boiler was nas hurled a full quarter of a mile and lodged in the slush bank northwest of where it had formerly blood another that took a elmaar direction crashed through the side of the breaker and lodged against the scraper sine line pour four will be thrown into idleness by the accident for z a month or six weeks so 0 o that the total loss joss will gate |