People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — Three Killed in a Boiler Explosion. [ARTICLE]

Three Killed in a Boiler Explosion.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Jan. 1. —A boiler explosion, by which three men were killed, occurred at the Law colliery at Avoca yesterday morning. The dead are: Alex Young, aged 48, pump drifller; Thomas M’Donald, aged 52, machinist; John Rolls, aged 50. The two first named were mangled beyond recognition. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by the low water in the boiler.