Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — A Locomotive Explodes. [ARTICLE]

A Locomotive Explodes.

A frightful explosion occurred Tuesday on the Union Pacific Railway, three miles west of Topeka, Kan. The switch engine employed in the yards there was hauling a train of cantos point where the track was being repaired. Just as it was slowing np, the boiler of the engine exploded with terrible force, scattering it into fragments fora distance of several hundred yards. Fireman James Dutton was fatally .injured, and Engineer R. T. Seacord received injuries which will probably prove fatal. Trainmen on rite cars also received serions in juries. The track wga tom up for a distance of 150 feet, and the cars were rcattered promiscuously about