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as the pressure reached a point where thetank could no longer hold it. With a roar that shook the whole neigh-borhood, the bottom head blew off and the tank shot through timbersand woodwork. No one knows how high the tank traveled after it Wliile. of course, his chosen work claims a great deal of… … Figure I passed beyond the roof. It landed in the back yard twenty feet fromwhere it started. At Glenolden, Pa., on March 13 an explosion of a somewhat similararrangement caused about $10,000 damage to the home of Fred Werner.Although in this case the tank did not rise up through the house,…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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