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ge to theextent of about $8,000. was done. Newspaper reports stated that the man in charge of the plant atthe time had just stoked the furnace of the boiler and had walkeda short distance away to turn on an electric light, when the accidentoccurred. It was said that this man was,hurled out of the… … Fie 1922.] THE LOCOMOTIVE 35 the explosion occurred, the barrel sheet of the boiler was torn off andthe remainder- by Ear the larger part — was hurled up and againslthe brick wall of an adjoining building, tearing a hole in it and com-ing to rest in the position shown in the picture above. The…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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