Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1901 — EXPLOSION OF A BOILER [ARTICLE]

EXPLOSION OF A BOILER

Bring* Death and Wound* to the Help In a Hotel Near the Scene. Erie. Pa., Oct. 10.—Last evening a large boiler iii the brass foundry of the Hayes Manufacturing company, on Wert Eleventh street, exploded with terr Pc force and completely demolishes. the three-story brick building in which it stood, together with the annex of the Liebel House, where part of the hotel's help had sleeping rooms and part was used as a kitcheu, there were several severe casualties. At the time of the explosion supper was being served in tiie hotel ano six girls who were in the kitchen were carried down in the wreck. Mrs. Ella Dolan, cook, was badly burned and cut, and may die; Frances Levenbuskl, silver girl, both legs and one arm broken, badly cut. Injured internally and wul die: .Tack Davidson, porter in a saloon, seriously cut about neck and shoulders by glass. Five others wore slightly hurt. JThe hotel was badly damaged