People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — A BOILER EXPLODES. [ARTICLE]

A BOILER EXPLODES.

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT MORGANTOWN. WEST VIRGINIA. Three Men Killed and Four Injured — Machine Was at Work When the Accident Occured —Explosion in an Albany, N. Y., I’aper Mill. Morgantown. W. Va., Aug. 15. —John Black & Sons were thrashing yesterday when the boiler or the machine exploded, killing three men and injuring three others. The killed are: JOHN SPOTSNAGE. CURTIN AMMONS. JOHN BLAIR. The injured: Ross Blair. John Spotsnage, Jr. Leroy Wade. William Ammons. Curtin Ammons was struck by a piece of the boiler and literally torn to pieces. His legs and feet were found under the barn. All of Blair’s clothing was torn from him except his shoes. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Albany, N. Y.. Aug. 15.—8 y the explosion of a large boiler in the paper mill and postal-card manufactory of Woolworth & Co., at Castleton, ten miles from here, one man. James Lawton, the watchman, was killed, and another, the engineer, was so badly injured that it is believed he will die.