Show 1 A LocomoTFFelUpIbIon An explosion which shook every haute in Benwood occurred Febru aryls The ocr wa the bier of a Baltimore and Ohio lo te motive No 442 of which Alfred Alm Cunningham was engineer and David Goenrlng fireman The engine was going past the station at the rate of pt four miles an hour When the boiler to exploded and when the steam cleared away there was nothing belt of the engine gave abot steel frame driving wheel and truck surmounted by tome tangled and twisted bar rods and tub The force of tho exnlnslon Te fore to cplnlon wa each as t damage the track and tear up tb platform In the pbtorm vicinity while a carload of furniture which was standing short distance dltnwIY on another track looked a though it had been subjected to a half hours bombardment by a field piece In a very few momenta a large crowd was attracted to the scene and a search waa at once begun forte for-te engineer and fireman bu w supposed as a matter of course that both men had been killed but to the great surprise of all both men were not only auve but comparatively compara-tively well comJtl Engineer Cunningham w thrown by thin force of the explosion over the freight cars which er standing on the side track to andover and-over the track of the Ohio River Railroad and finally alighted In an old corn field He was not much the worse for his rapid transit and when it is considered he cleared one Imndred and sixty feet at one flying letup his escape seems little shorter miraculous Before ho was found he had got on his feet and was walkIng walk-Ing back to where his engine hat ha-t To a newspaper man Engineer En-gineer Cunningham sold 1 I was carrying 130 pounds of punds steam and as we approached the station there were three gnages of water About twenty yards north of tho station building 1 ro the Injector and we ran on pastThe explosion then resulted Fireman Goehriug woo found ly ng between two cB He the rear ioston of the bier and fire box and the fragments of the cab all left the engine about Chit same time The Iron work fell fi t and then Gobrlnl Ue down with there mains the cab lying over and partly on him He went toward the bank and when found was bleeding profusely from cuts about the head Ian I-an < face Aflyingfrazmeutoflron struck Track Foreman Boyd in the calf of onu leg I causing a painful pnful wound and a fourth man one of a Irouf of five Croix who weru standing stand-ing on the latCor wben theexplo I Mon occurred a slightly cut In I the side of the fC < by a piece of short iron These comprise the s casualties Safety Valve c |