| Show scalding steam swept 1 over the men at work new york sept 10 A score of men in the power house of the united electric light power company in bast twenty ninth street had a narrow escape aiom death last night when a 1600 horsepower boiler exploded filling the place with blinding scalding pleam five of the men were seriously injured and one patrick braday will probably die in the room where the explosion oc buried are fifteen agoo horsepower boilers matthew kerr the engl neey firemen and halt a doea coal passers were keeping the boilers going when there came a roar from boiler no B the next instant the boiler rose in the air and was dashed to fragments dazed by the shock and blistered by steam the men made a wild rush for safety and most of them escaped before they were seriously burned the shock however threw down engineer kerr when he staggered to his feel he until dragged to the iron door through which the others had escaped then it was discovered that braday waa missing and one of the men dashed back into the scalding steam and across bradacs Br body braday was dragged out unconscious and terribly scalded the force of the ex buildings for several blocks around ROBBED OP now york sept 19 the marquis e angulo mather of the secretary of the spanish minister to france who sa sopping sop at the hotel has just been robbed of and a quantity of jewels says a paris dispatch to the york herald the police are actively searching tor the thief PECULIAR ACCIDENT woman blinded by the glancing of a bullet new york sept 19 mrs J I 1 jordan wife of rev dr jordan pastor of the FreeK rt L L methodist episcopal church was batien to a hospital in brooklyn yesterday suffering from wounds accidentally inflicted by her husband and which may result in her total blindness mrs jordan s birthday anniversary recently was celebrated at big cooee lake in the adirondacks region by a party which enjoyed a day in the woods sirs jordan expressing a desire to learn to shoot a target was placed in position on a tree her husband took the rifle to show her how to aim when the target fell down mrs jordan put it up again and stepped to one side behind a tree dr jordan shot at ibe bullseye several times when suddenly his wife came toward him screaming with her hands covering her eyes one of the bullets had glanced struck a rock split and a fragment of it had hit her fual in tho eye HERRERA MANLON MATCH san franciscu adept 19 thaher rera hanlon match will take place both men having signed the articles forfeits oi are to bo posted and a 1000 side bet will ba deposited today at noon the papers call for a meeting on october at the pacific athletic club of los angeles the combatants to weigh pounds ringside and the receive 60 per cent ot the gross receipts to be divided 75 and 25 |
