Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — A FATAL EXP LOSION. [ARTICLE]

A FATAL EXP LOSION.

The steamer Convoy left Jeffersonville Thursday evening, with eight barges,for Pittsburg. At 1* o’clock, Friday morning, while opposite Westport, Ind.twenty miles above Jeffersonville, her main steam pipe burst, tearing the floors out of the cabin over the engine, where William Page, William Kerrigan,Robert Jones, William Bagiev, P. Kerrigan, George McCann, Charles Luster and •Charles -GfaanrtTgfg~"slept. ““Ail wrere scalded to death except Chambers, who was blown outtrf the door,but not fatally injured. Eour were killed outright. The others begged piteously to be killed. Of the injured, two died* on board the Mail Line steamer, City of Madison, on the way back to Louisville. The remaind ied in the hospital. The officers of tlie boat can give no explanation of the accident, and claim the rna- j chinery was inspected last February and ■ fonndtabarglPtfggtr ~