Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — THRESHER BOILER EXPLODES [ARTICLE]

THRESHER BOILER EXPLODES

Kill* Vivo Men end Set* the Stack* of Wheat on Fire and They Are All Destroyed. Bricelyn, Minn., Sept. 6. —The boiler of a threshing engine exploded on a farm three miles north of here, killing Peter Daley, owner of the engine; Chris Sunde, James Seymour, Abe Foster and Willard Galiyon. The bodies of the men were badly mangled. The explosion scattered the fire under the boiler among the wheat stacks and they were destroyed. Foster's body was partly incinerated. George Halverson, another thresher, was badly injured. Tbe rear half of the engine was thrown forty rods away into a field by the force of the explosion.