Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 132
stricken, the Captain determined to beach the boat atwhat he thought the nearest available place upon the sunkenmeadow at Randalls Island, the fire, meantime, raged withsuch violence that in less than thirty minutes from its dis-covery the boat was burned to the waters edge; 35 liveswere lost, and… … Fig. 1.—Longitudinal section through the shell of the Seawanhakas boiler, showing the smoke (gas)thoroughfares in elevation, and a section through the starboard furnace. C—The initial rupture in the bottom cf the lower tube in the second vertical row, through which the waterescaped. A—Rupture in…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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