Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 56
N., APRIL, 1887. No. 4. Destructive Explosion of a Horizontal Tubular Boiler. The explosion illustrated below occurred some months since in a neighborinfj State,destroying a large amount of property, but fortunately no one was killed or injured. The boiler was one of a battery of similar boilers,… … Fig. 1. From what information we could gather, it appeared that this boiler had beenblown off the day previous to the explosion for the purjjose of cleaning. It was startedup during the evening so that it would be ready for use the following day. Whether the 50 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [April, stop valve…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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