| Show escapes escape s injury as cylinder head of engine bursts burs ts nathan knight of sigurd narrowly r e escaped sc aped serious anju injury friday ander d y a afternoon f hernoon when a cy cylinder 11 head ad of a one hundred horse power steam engine carrying 95 pounds of steam w was as blown biown to pieces one piece of the iron cutting into the sixteen foot ceiling of the boiler room at the plant of the national keene cement co the accident occurred at about wo two when a bolt broke in the cross head and fell leavin leaving the connecting rod loose and driving the piston through the end of the cylinder bursting the cylinder head the steam struck the floor with such force that it ib moved a heavy tool box along the floor for a short distance mr knight esca escaped ed the line of the steam and the amse loose piston rec receiving eivin only a slight sligh scratch on one finger as he be hastened to grasp the throttle wheel to turn the engine off the engine which is about seventy years old and had bad been in use at the mill about twenty years had been inspected regularly tears Y mr air knight had just finished filling the oil cups over the top of the engine and the lubricator a few minutes before the accident |
