Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 319
eight tubes in the lowest row of awater tube boiler were pulled from the front header, damagednot only the boiler but destroyed its setting, tore loose all pipeconnections, parted the breeching, and blew a hole in a brick wall ofthe boiler room of Consolidated Ice Company, Inc., at Monroe,… … water raised the boiler from its setting and allowed it to crash down-ward four feet in such a way as to throw its full weight onto tubes whichfell across a brick baffle wall about midway the furnace. Needless tosay, this added considerably to the damage. Both chief engineer and watch engineer had…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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