Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 456
rning when the tragic acci-dent brought the venture to an untimely halt. 1929. THE LOCOMOTIVE 179 The boiler, a comparatively new one of the Scotch type, stoodoutside and about twenty feet to the rear of the factory building.When it exploded it went like a rocket through the rear wall and upthrough… … The boiler was used at the old plant only ten weeks before it wasset up at the new location. Thus it is almost certain that deteriorationcould not have caused the failure. Nor was there any evidence tosupport the opinion that low water might have been the cause. Infact, the flue collapsed from the…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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