. The Locomotive. arum o titre COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE CO. Vol. XXVII. HARTFORD, CONN., APRIL, 1909. No. 6. Explosion of a Rendering- Tank. The half-tone engraving that we present herewith will give some idea ofthe damage that was done by the recent explosion of a tallow rendering tank,in the southwest. Fortunately nobody was killed, and there were no seriouspersonal injuries; but the property loss was $22,500. The operation of rendering tallow consists in treating the material fromwhich the tallow is prepared with live steam, for some hours, unde
. The Locomotive. arum o titre COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE CO. Vol. XXVII. HARTFORD, CONN., APRIL, 1909. No. 6. Explosion of a Rendering- Tank. The half-tone engraving that we present herewith will give some idea ofthe damage that was done by the recent explosion of a tallow rendering tank,in the southwest. Fortunately nobody was killed, and there were no seriouspersonal injuries; but the property loss was $22,500. The operation of rendering tallow consists in treating the material fromwhich the tallow is prepared with live steam, for some hours, under a gage. View of the Wrecked Plant. pressure of 40 pounds per square inch, or thereabouts. On the afternoon preced-ing the accident that we are about to describe, the tank that exploded was putinto service at about three oclock, and orders were left with the night manto shut off the steam pressure at half past four on the following morning. Atfour oclock the night man started on his regular round through the buildings,to ring up his night signals, and ten minutes later, when he was on the thirdfloor of the building in which the tank stood, the explosion took described what happened as a heaving and a crumpling and a roaring;and this probably gives as good an idea of the occurrence, from the standpoint 162 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [April,. of an eye-witness, as could be conveyed by a longer and more carefully pre-pared account. Tbe building in which the tank stood was a new one, and had a frontageof 200 feet on one street, and 150 feet upon another. It was badly wrecked,as will be seen by the i
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