People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — Fatal Blast Furnace Explosion. [ARTICLE]

Fatal Blast Furnace Explosion.

Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, July 31.-—An accumulation of gas caused an explosion in the cupola of the top mill blast furnace this morning, and pieces of iron, coke and cinders were blown two hundred feet in the air. Samuel Cashnich, a filler, was fatally burned, and James Carman was badl r injured by flying missiles.