Deseret Evening News | 1900-02-17 | Page 5 | Fatal Boiler Explosion

l T J Two I Three Frightfully Two men were killed anti and three frIghtfully b by the explosion slon sion ot of a 11 locomotive boiler oller In time the San Santa ta Fo Fe roundhouse at al To Topeka k yester yesterday da day afternoon Dead DeA l John boilermaker Nels Nelli LInden reman Injured J L will probablY probably ablY die Artle Artie hl bruised and badly shaken up BIrt Shields face cut and one eye injured The explosion was CAUSed b by com coin compressed pressed air which was wall to bp be used ns as the tho motive power of at the midget live n a switch engine Beards hey ley letting the air Into Inta the boiler when the lon occurred Ito Ite had just turned tumid on the pressure and It was thou thought ht that not over pounds was In the boiler boller The force or of th time ex explosion pi Ion blo blow time tho front end ot of th the holier boiler against the stone vahl tearing AWa away th the wIndow casing and wall wail making n a hole feet teet wide aed about thIrty feet high Time The boiler was blown from the track and tell twenty t feet et away Time The dead men Were ere horribly mangled their heads head blon from their bodies bodle