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Show BOILER EXPLOSION ATSTORRS. Two Killed and Five Injured at Spring Canyon Coal Company's Power Plant. fltorrs. Tho exploBlon of a bollor In the Spring Canyon Coal company's power house here Monday killed two men and itrlously Injured live. A. D, Elliott, Stofrs, master, mg-chsnlo", mg-chsnlo", scalded by escaping stoam; lleJ R Jow moments nftcj; ho oxplo-fiou. oxplo-fiou. A. C. Strong! Htorrs, nremuh, fiarled JhrotTglt the root; aled instant-y; instant-y; bod"y m'angled. W. C. Pennington, Kansas City, bollejmakor; back 111' Jursd, hip fractured, sov6fely scalded; Injuries may prove fatal. Guy Hackney, Hack-ney, Kansas City, bollormaker; scalded scald-ed about the faco and body, leg broken. brok-en. U A, Gooding, Kansas City, bollormaker; boll-ormaker; ankle fractured, brulsod by flying debris, scalded about face, arms and back. J. H. Ellen, Storrs, teamster; team-ster; injured by Hying debris, bruised by fall. Carl Llmburg, Storrs, tiro-man; tiro-man; internally injured, back sprninod. Tho bollor was of tho marine high-pressure high-pressure typo and it Is said had been recently repaired. According to stories stor-ies of bystanders, tho master mechanic mechan-ic and bollermakers wero at work caulking a patch on an adjoining bolter when the acldent occurred. Llvo steam tilled tho boiler room in an Instant and with a crash that was heard lor miles, sections of tho bollor toro through tho roof of tho tiro room, carrying car-rying rafters and skylights. |