People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — SEVEN WERE INJURED. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN WERE INJURED.

Boiler Explodes at New York and Crashes Through a Big Building. New York, May 23. —Seven persons were injured, two seriously, by the explosion of a boiler at One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street and Eagle avenue. The boiler, which weighed three tons, was blown 75 feet into the air and landed in a stable in Ann street, 75 feet away. It crashed through the roof and through two floors, landing among thirty horses. The boiler is said to have been defective and to have been reported as such to the boiler inspector a week ago.