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Show PER OF RED M HT METAL ANB i SCALDING STEAM Mstewn Disaster Caused w Bursting Fly Wheel. KING UP CASUALTIES Are Known to Be Dead. If and Many Injured. if JfcMen Were in the Building at gjg'Irue of the Accident, and a "jNumber Unaccounted For. m iKsistown, Pa , Jan. 21. The dlsas-rfthe dlsas-rfthe Cambria Steel company's rail Utjan early hour this morning was e to a bursting steam pipe, but injesu.Uu.nt upon t!ie breaking of a ,fJgor belt, allowing an Immense Kleel to run away. Three men are Airee are fatally Injured and six pre or lesu severely wounded. n( Kngmeer Iloshler. who Avas lng by his engine, felt the jar of Hjffiijcnsc flv vtieel running wild. Mashed to the steam valve and tried 'Nfll? the engine. He was too late, teaer, for the explosion of the wheel hmost instantaneous. UW. PULL. OF HOT rETATj. Mg pieces of metal broke steam 'Wand released the scalding vapor. ppt pieces of metal were hurled Md)P the wooden walls and roof, set- Ijhom on fire At the same time jjplpes were broken, flooding the jjsj.0 a dQplh of a couple of feet, Di escape difllrult for the Injured, the lire had been extinguished rcl; for the dead and injured held he-ld It is bellcied that all have ;ccve'rt-d. though at first many ere thought to have been killed ured. iiring away the debris the uork-und uork-und two more bodies. Nothing I walls of the mill are standing, rce of the explosion, according men who were working in the p.p terrific. Largo girders were .'put of shape and everything is iled mass of ruins- How many ay be burled In thi? mass It Is possible to toil, and It will be J hours before definite Inforina-n Inforina-n be secured. TY WERE IN JUrLDING. i were fifty men at work in No. and few of them escaped wlth-lca?t wlth-lca?t some Injury. The fact that lims are foreigners complicates umeration of the dead and ln-fOnc ln-fOnc mill-worker who was near nlll, but far enough away to es-le es-le force of the explosion, says he an writhing on the ground amid reckago, rolling over in the fwhllc others appeared to be al-ubmerged al-ubmerged in th deluge of water ? from the broken mains. Two victims In the hospital arc :ans, one or whom is beyond all C recovery Neither of the Amer-las Amer-las been identified at this time, levastntlon hns not befn seen fthe plant of the Cambria Steel iy sInrc Hie Johnstown Hood, the entire plant was submerged radically all the valuable ma-,. ma-,. '7 wrecked. |