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Show SCALDED TO DEATH. j Five Persons Meet Horrible Fate on . Sugar Plantation. Now Orleans. Flvo persons were I scalded to death by n column of escaping es-caping steam from a broken holler In a sugar houso near Vachorlo, La., on f Tuesday. Tho scene of tho tragedy, trag-edy, the Shell Hill plantation, Is ro-moto ro-moto from telegraphic communication and details of tho explosion reached hero on Wednesday. A holo two feet squaro burst In tho boiler drum, which stood about twelvo ! feet nway from tho sugar house. Tho escaping steam plowed a trench about three feet deep In tho ground, until It struck the sugnr houso foundations. This obstruction deflected tho column of steam and hot wator upward so that it entered the sugar houso. |