Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — SEVEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION.

Workmen Engaged In denning Big OU Tank Blown to Fleee*. Six men and possibly seven were killed and sev in injured by the explosion of an oil tank of the Essex and Hudson Gas Company at Newark, N. J. The tank was one of a number of Immense steel reservoirs which were un dergoing their periodical cleaning. It having been emptied of its oil in tho morning. The tank was twenty fee: deep and two men entered through the manhole first without taking the precaution of having ropes tied about them. They were Immediately over come by the fumes. Foreman Newlnan saw this and started down after them, after shouting a warning to the other men in the yard. He, too, col-

lapsed in the tank. Nicholas Miller, a grocer near by, had once been foreman of the works. Summoning others, the men began with chisels to cut a large- ring in the tank. It is supposed that a spark from the chisels caused the explosion that followed. Ten men were on the top of the tank at the time. They were swept away in all directions. The tank was split in two, and after all was over the bodies of the three men in it were taken out.