The Locomotive . I draw no conclusions but such as are naturally deduced from known and visible facts, and such will always have a being while the facts which produced them remain unaltered, . — Thomas Paine Vol. XXXVIl No. S October 1929. A QUARTERLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO POWER PLANT PROTECTION Published continuously since 1867 by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company Please show to your Engineer 226 THE LOCOMOTIVE October, Experts Dififer on Theory That Caustic EmbrittlementCaused Violent Explosion at Crossett, Ark. WEAKENED by an agency which one expert claimed wascaustic
The Locomotive . I draw no conclusions but such as are naturally deduced from known and visible facts, and such will always have a being while the facts which produced them remain unaltered, . — Thomas Paine Vol. XXXVIl No. S October 1929. A QUARTERLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO POWER PLANT PROTECTION Published continuously since 1867 by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company Please show to your Engineer 226 THE LOCOMOTIVE October, Experts Dififer on Theory That Caustic EmbrittlementCaused Violent Explosion at Crossett, Ark. WEAKENED by an agency which one expert claimed wascaustic embrittlement and another claimed was not, a com-paratively new water tube boiler exploded with tremendousviolence at the Crossett Lumber Company, Crossett, Arkansas, onMay 30th, killing one man and injuring four others. The explosiondemolished half the boiler house, wrecked a companion boiler com-pletely, and badly damaged a third. Property damage was estimatedat $150,000. The power plant was erected in 1922, and it not only served thesaw mills, planing mills and other properties of the company but, inaddition, supplied light and steam heat for the entire town. It con-sisted of six water tube boilers of the bent tube, two-drum typ
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