The Erie express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ... were instantly killed. The boiler of the locomotive drawing the train bursted with a fearful explosion, killing the engineer, GEORGE ...

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At least 26 people were killed and 40 injured, “most of them railroad employees ... “The type of explosion that occurred was typical of what occurs when a boiler is heated with low or ...

In 1948, a devastating boiler explosion in Chillicothe, Ohio turned a steam locomotive into a twisted mass of metal and marked a symbolic end to steam’s dominance in American rail. Though not ...

Capital for railroad building dried up ... “The cause of death was due to accidental explosion of boiler No. 15 of the Allentown Rolling Mill Co., and for want of sufficient evidence cannot ...

It was five minutes 'til 9 a.m. and railroad employees were ... “The type of explosion that occurred was typical of what occurs when a boiler is heated with low or no water and then water ...

LAKELAND | A natural gas explosion Tuesday morning sent a 60,000-pound boiler tank hurling through a wall and onto railroad tracks outside the Whitlock Packaging Corp. in Lakeland. No one was hurt ...

Initial information suggests the fire was caused by an explosion of a portable boiler fueled by natural ... and Union Pacific Railroad was notified to close down traffic on a rail line that ...