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of soggy earth. His injuries proved slight. The 42 dry backmarine boiler, which had caused the trouble, went 200 feet, demol-ishing part of the building housing it, carrying off a porch, anddamaging a store and an apartment kitchen in its flight. The in-jured operator said the explosion occurred… … The woman proprietor of another Southern cleaning establishment sus-tained serious injuries when the small vertical boiler, 20 in diam-eter and 4 high (shown above), exploded on June 4, 1935. Corro-sion just above the base ring, a common cause of failure in this typeof boiler, was blamed for the…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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