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Show BOILER EXPLODES, KILLING ONE MAN Crown Sheet of Locomotive Blows Out While Train Is Being Pushed Up Hill. ERIE, Pa., May 23. While passing Mays Siding, on a hill west of Kane, Sunday the boiler on one of the locomotives locomo-tives pushing a Philadelphia & Erie freight train exploded, killing one man and Injuring four others, three perhaps fatally. The train was running at the time of the explosion. The crown sheet of the boiler was blown clear through the caboose, splitting the caboose in two. The injured, except the engineer and fireman, were in the caboose. |