Salt Lake Tribune | 1895-06-18 | Page 1 | Terrific Boiler Explosion

TERRIFIC one man ri lied a dozen wounded abd aad the plant wreck 0 a now kow orleans Ori cans juno IT 17 the T he union cotton press van mas the seen scene a of 0 a terrible r abion explosion today to day which suited resulted re in one man being lifted slid and a dozen wounded the union press was ono one ot of oe ce largest in the city and operated by I 1 frankenbush lanken bush tort and covered nearly the entire square running front from south peter street to lo south northwest alceo street at the of the explosion tile ine bellor boilers bellers or nere being tested by AV J ham anond ot of kosciusko Kosc lusko alks representing keily B bland ind if co one ona of 0 tile bottom ex plodded without warning and in nn an instant a volume of hot water was ejected on til all sides the walls around ar aund the boller boiler room crushed in and those men nho he escaped tile water it lu Is believed were burned lu in tho the ruins mana or penrose was struck by a brick and received C L c a ull ul stream 0 of boiling water in sp the f face 2 I 1 ho to aas nas picked up dead averl r w hosa names could not be N nere ere also badly scalded no co bodies were found under tile do de brig clemere Cle merr penrose manager miina eer oft of the lie press prees was the only person killed though albert at bort S frankenburg cotton we leher and preston koshey ere are so 60 badly scalded iliac flit they hlll M iro riot recover the cause ot of the ex explosion plo stoll to ie unknown