Show = = = = BOILER EXPLOSION I An Engineer and Finmin Instantly Killed ONE IIURLIII 200 rtur IN THE AIR The Oilier llironu Against a Car With Tcrrlll lorcc Catiio of Ibo Accident Unknown Cinciao March 21Tbo boiler cl he locomotive which was hauling I the Chicago Bull Boston special 01 this Lake Bhl Michigan Southern toad blew up Ibis luornloi Instantly killing the engineer and fireman and com fileat plctely demolishing the engine The engineer was hurled 200 lei t Into the air through a network cl telegraph tele-graph wlrn I that were stretched along Ibo track and had his right leg torn OH The fireman was thrown against u c cattlecar with shelf force that almost every bone In Ills body wai broten None of the remainder of the train I crew nor auy of the passenger were Injured Toe train to which the engine was altacbcd Is l one of the lasHst on tho Like Shore roaJ and leave the Van Bunu street depot at 1030 In the Warning I he accident occurred about II oclock I Bib lialii had just pulled out front the Englewood depot slid was running at the rate of twenty miles an hour A peculiar feature of Ibo explosion was Itu fact that although the report n as 10 loud It was beard by residents I half a mIle away anl tile lone so I most that the engine was literally blown to Olome acne 01 Iho panan Kerln ILo hr part of tire train heard Ibo report Bud were nol aware that ulblog unusual tied happened uolll they louLed out drive Usu train bad como tou sudden Stop The tralu untried along about 150 feet alter the explosion look place and although the Mop wae gulden none of the passruiers were thrown Ircm their teats and not Ono at Ibo coacb WB damaged by tllliir the explosion or the tuddeu Hopihe ihe force of the explosion was apparently ap-parently directly upward and outward DS pans of ilia engine were thrown Into the air 100 feet and huge pieces the toller welching several totirlweta Waited oval the telegraph wlicolnto a swamp a distance of 150 1 fuel Willie the baggage car direct I 16 hind Ibo euglno was not damaged I lu Dry way It li not known just what caused Ibo tzplciloD ofllclsls of the load rloll I that It will not be determined until what remains I of the engine I la I taken OoJ I apart and examined It was thought ut Urn that them was no water In the Boiler 1 but this theory was abandocoj I BBltvrai I an outgoing train and the engluo had just been taken from the i I roundhouse it thort lime before the txplo ou It was rumored instills boiler ot Ihe encluu was defective In same rupccl but this wo denied by olUoll 01 the road The latter toy locomotive wait In gOd van ditlon In every repot had boon In ejtcUU wu In use about three years and was one of Ibo fasteit ou the road The train IbM It wea pulling was I known as No Wound Is n through train from Chicago tu Italian |