People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — FOUR KILLED. [ARTICLE]

FOUR KILLED.

Boiler Bursts on a North Dakota FarmFour Seriously Injured. Grafton, N. D., Sept. 26.— A boiler exploded about 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon on the farm of William Cain, 4 miles north of Crystal, with terrible results, four men being killed and four badly wounded, one fatally. The dead are: Robert Hawthorne, Chris Behrens, F. A. Barringer, Nick Phillips. Charles Shepard was fatally injured. A team belonging to Thomas Morgan was also killed. Alex. Robinson’s little boy was standing opposite the water tank near the engine when the boiler exploded, but was not hurt. The thrasher crew think lack of water was the cause.