THIRTY TWO KILLED FIFTY WOUNDED WHEN ENGINE BOILER EXPLODES IN SAN ANTONIO. Engine Torn to Bits—Shop Wrecked and Fragments of Human Bodies Scattered for Blocks—Only a Few Dead Identified. Associated Press.' San Antonio, Tex., March 18—At least 32 men were killed and more than fifty injured today when the boiler of locomotive 704 exploded in the shop yards of the Southern Pacific railroad here today. Property damages approximate $200,000. A comm it te of railroad officials, army officers and citizens made an investigation this afternoon and are of the opinion that the explosion was probably due to the carlessness of one of the men killed in allowing an inrush of cold water into a superheated boiler in which the! water* was low. Twenty bodies have been recovered and identified, twelve unidentified and human fragments picked up within a radius of several blocks probably account for several of the missing % Thp identified dead: include Walter Jourdan, engineer: B. Man-) sker, Sr., foreman of the blacksmith i shop: J. R. Miller of Orange, Texas and E. B. Shaw of Cleburne. The engine was undergoing an inspection at the time of the explosion. Explosion tore it to bits, [ wrecked four shop buildings which for a square in the yards, and the; wreckage was scattered for blocks around with arms, legs, hands and mangled trunks of the victims. A; number of the killed and injured were shopmen sent from northern! and eastern citlies several months ago to replace experienced machinist-shopmen strikers.
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The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas
19 Mar 1912, Tue • Page 1
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The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas
19 Mar 1912, Tue • Page 1
THIRTY TWO KILLED FIFTY WOUNDED WHEN ENGINE BOILER EXPLODES IN SAN ANTONIO. Engine Torn to Bits—Shop Wrecked and Fragments of Human Bodies Scattered for Blocks—Only a Few Dead Identified. Associated Press.' San Antonio, Tex., March 18—At least 32 men were killed and more than fifty injured today when the boiler of locomotive 704 exploded in the shop yards of the Southern Pacific railroad here today. Property damages approximate $200,000. A comm it te of railroad officials, army officers and citizens made an investigation this afternoon and are of the opinion that the explosion was probably due to the carlessness of one of the men killed in allowing an inrush of cold water into a superheated boiler in which the! water* was low. Twenty bodies have been recovered and identified, twelve unidentified and human fragments picked up within a radius of several blocks probably account for several of the missing % Thp identified dead: include Walter Jourdan, engineer: B. Man-) sker, Sr., foreman of the blacksmith i shop: J. R. Miller of Orange, Texas and E. B. Shaw of Cleburne. The engine was undergoing an inspection at the time of the explosion. Explosion tore it to bits, [ wrecked four shop buildings which for a square in the yards, and the; wreckage was scattered for blocks around with arms, legs, hands and mangled trunks of the victims. A; number of the killed and injured were shopmen sent from northern! and eastern citlies several months ago to replace experienced machinist-shopmen strikers.
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The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas
19 Mar 1912, Tue • Page 1
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The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas
19 Mar 1912, Tue • Page 1
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