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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 77

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fof the waist, plunging into the ground, whence it bounded some distance further nearthe place where the taper-sheets that formed the waist had alighted. Most of the other parts were strewn in a curved line to the left, each piece goingfurther until the most remote and largest landed about 1,500… … Fig. 6. A part of the tube-sheet, with half the wrought-iron base-sill attached, was droppedupon the tool-box of the diggers. The front of the shell, with the front of the fire-boxattached, was thrown about 600 feet in a direction nearly opposite to that taken by thebarrel. Nothing remained to mark…

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