People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — FIRE AT DANBURY. CONN. [ARTICLE]

FIRE AT DANBURY. CONN.

Boiler Explosion Causes the Fatal lajuring of Two Men. Danbury, Conn., March 3.—By a boiler explosion in Park Bros.’ fur-cutting establishment this morning a fire was caused, which did damage amounting to fully $200,000, and resulted in probably fatal injuries to two men. The. explosion t'ook the roof from the. building, a small wooden affair of two stories. Edward Parks, one of the proprietors, was thrown down by the explosion and frightfully burned. He may die . Sadie Carpenter, a tenaui of an upper floor, jumped from a win dow and broke her thigh. Frank Eastwood, a fireman, was buried beneath a falling wall and fatally injured. There are rumors that two children are missing, but the reports can not be veri - fied.