The Locomotive . n & WnsoNvGeneral Agents,J. B. Warner, Cuief Inspector, New Orleans, La.,818 Gravier St. Hartford, Conn.,650 Main St. Bridgeport, Conn., 1 Sanford BuildingPittsburg, Pa., 401 Wood , Ohio. 337 W Superior Ave., N. WChicago, 111., 169 Jackson Louis, Mo., 319 North Fourth , Col., 210-215 Ta bor Opera House BldgSan Francisco, Cat., 206 Sansome St. She Jfoamwftte PUBLISHED BY THE HARTFORD STE^M BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE XXVI. HARTFORD, CONN., APRIL, 1906. No. 2. Explosion of a Heating- Boiler. The illustrations presented herewith sh
The Locomotive . n & WnsoNvGeneral Agents,J. B. Warner, Cuief Inspector, New Orleans, La.,818 Gravier St. Hartford, Conn.,650 Main St. Bridgeport, Conn., 1 Sanford BuildingPittsburg, Pa., 401 Wood , Ohio. 337 W Superior Ave., N. WChicago, 111., 169 Jackson Louis, Mo., 319 North Fourth , Col., 210-215 Ta bor Opera House BldgSan Francisco, Cat., 206 Sansome St. She Jfoamwftte PUBLISHED BY THE HARTFORD STE^M BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE XXVI. HARTFORD, CONN., APRIL, 1906. No. 2. Explosion of a Heating- Boiler. The illustrations presented herewith show a portion of the destruction re-cently wrought by the explosion of a cast-iron steam heating boiler, in a privateresidence at St. Paul, Minn. The explosion occurred at about 8 oclock , five persons being in the house at the time. Mr. W (who occupied the building) was in the kitchen, his wife was in the sitting-room adjoining, andthree children were in their bedrooms on the second floor. The boiler gave. Interior of the Wrecked Sitting Room. way without the slightest warning, and fragments of iron and other wreckagewere projected through the house in all directions. By great good fortune,nobody was seriously injured; though it is hard to understand this fact, inview of the nature and violence cf the explosion. The entire building was shaken and damaged, windows and chimneys weredemolished, doors were hurled from their hinges, and the flooring of three roomson the first floor was shattered. The chair in which Mrs. W was sitting was 34 THE LOCOMOTIVE, [April,. thrown upward, against the ceiling, and its occupant fell back through a jaggedopening in the floor into the basement. Stones from the foundation of thebuilding and debris of various kinds were thrown several blocks, and windowswere broken in neighboring dwellings. Our engravings show the room in which Mrs. W was sitting, Fig. I being taken within the apartment, and Fig. 2 from the dining-room yV was in
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