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Show A FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. ScvniMi'ii Were Killed aud Many Others- Severely If Not fatally Injured. Chicago, Oct. 5. A boiler explosion on board the sleatn tug C. V. Parker killed seven persona and seriously wounded many others yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Tba tug, iu company with three others, was engaged in attempting to tow the coal steamer It. H.I. Fickard out of the draw of the Archer avenue bridge in the south branch of the river when the explosion occurred. Three of the killed were employes of the tug. Their bodies are not yet recovered. The other persons killed were standing on the banks of the river, where a number num-ber of spectators had been drawn to witness the removal of the steamer, which arrived Saturday from buffalo with a carload of coal. The vessel bad run aground in the draw and four tugs were putting torth every effort to move it, and one of them, the Parker, exploded. ex-ploded. The list of killed and wounded, so lar a can be ascertained, is a follows: fol-lows: The killed are: James B. Carter, Car-ter, John C. Moore. Samuel Armstrong. Mrs. Mary Kice, Barbara Kice, Samuel Sawyer and an unknown man. The wounded arc: Joseph Cullen. Henry Hill, Charles Xierten, Frank Wagner, Joseph Bomorazk, George Juell, Louis d'Mass, James Cnncinghaui. Tbe body of Engineer Moore was taken from the river this morning. The remains ol the unknown man aro still unidentified. An eighth victim is Bartholomew Bar-tholomew Curlin. |