. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . gh a terrifyingcloud of white vapor accompanied witha deluge of water that rattled on tlie carroofs like the spray of a hurricane in mid-w-inter on the North Atlantic. Womenshrieked and strong men stood still. Pres-ently the train slackened its speed andcame to a stop, and everybody hurriedout to see what had happened. The•clouded air was hot and sulphurous, butin spite of which the teeth cf many ofthe amazed passengers were rattling likedice. When the air cleared it was foundthat the locomot
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . gh a terrifyingcloud of white vapor accompanied witha deluge of water that rattled on tlie carroofs like the spray of a hurricane in mid-w-inter on the North Atlantic. Womenshrieked and strong men stood still. Pres-ently the train slackened its speed andcame to a stop, and everybody hurriedout to see what had happened. The•clouded air was hot and sulphurous, butin spite of which the teeth cf many ofthe amazed passengers were rattling likedice. When the air cleared it was foundthat the locomotive boiler had explodedand had parted its fastenings, and layhalf l)uric<l in the earth about fiftv vards naco door. When the rupture had oc-curred, the escaping steam, after strikingthe ashpan to the earth, had recoiled andlifted the boiler into the air. Not awheel had left the rails. With the excep- of good grazing than hard of the visitors seemed disappointedwhen they learned that there was nobodykilled or even hurt. Some of them, aftera cursory glance, turned sullenly away,. KNGINE STANDING ON TRACK WITH BOILER BLOWN AWAY. tirn of a few broken bolts and the for-lorn spectacle of an unattached smokebox to which the smokestack still stuck,the engine seemed ready for a new boiler.
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