Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — FEARFUL EXPLOSIONS. [ARTICLE]

FEARFUL EXPLOSIONS.

Bursting of a Steam-Gage Cock on a Barge Probably Fatally Injures Five Men—Explosion of Gunpowder. [Boston Telegram.] Boston, Mass., May The steam-gage cock on board the steambarge Andrew Noster burst this afternoon on her way from the Point of Pines, severely scalding John J. O’Leary, of Boston, and Edward Hart, the engineer, who will probably die. Burt McNamara, Henry McCarty, of East Boston, and Andrew Mclntyre were also severely scalded, probably fatally. [Dispatches From Quebec, Canada.]’ A frightful accident occurred atßetchuan, twenty miles below Point Esquimaux Fourteen men from the seal fishery were dividing two kegs of gunpowder in one of their houses. One wa3 smoking, and a spark fell into the powder. The house was blown to atoms, and two men cariiedafcout 100 yards. The .entire parry were badly burned, bat none were killed outright