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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 158

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feet, then through the solid plate to the heads at each end 1935 TH E LOCOMOTIVE 145 and finally into the heads themselves, So severe was the blast that itdemolished the setting of an adjacent boiler, blew down the sheet-ironboiler shed, and brought the steel smokestack crashing down on the ruins.… … Damage from exp(osion of zvater tube boiler after seam failed. on top of the boiler only a short time prior to the explosion, said morepersons probably would have been injured had not the accident occurredbetween shifts. Preliminary findings indicate that this accident may have been theresult of…

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