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WWi, VM *uv J 1 OUVMftM V uufires low, and had he have done bo it is not at all probable that any expiosfon would have occurred at the time it did.Both the pilots examined, Dufonr and Braehiers, testify that daring the time the engine was stopped they did not hear any escapement of steam, from the safety valve, or anywhere else, and wo have no means of knowing, from the statement of Edwards, made to Orrin Marshall, how high steam did run up upon him, after the engine was stopped; but that it did run up high enough to tear everything to pieces, is too clearly manifest.We cannot attach any blame to Miller, the First Engineer, as he was asleep in his berth ab the time of the explosion. Nor do wo intend to reflect censure apon the builders and owners of this vessel, as they but acted upon an opinio11* common to many engineer*, thatAjfc °* ‘ron. #3 thecrmpea nozzle eac^j^ment In to the chimneys, and with'ooal as ftwl for generating steam,: could be well and safely need.But, if we would profit by the experience of the last eighteen months or two years, in the explosions that have happened, we will And that all of them have occurred to boats using tbte tUfek lion, aid *tt*Hfce esear ement.These facts being known to all conversant with this subject, and including the unfortunate and ill-fated 8ultana, it, in onr opinion, becomes the duty of Congress to so amend the steamboat law, as to forbid the use of boilerplates in boats to be built hereafter, of a greater thickness than V of an inch or of a larger di«Betor.ihw 4J inches, to Be lutted on boats working high pressure steam, and with not more than two, or, at most, four flues in eaeh, And if such boats will use the escapement in the chimneys, coal leiDg used as fuel, it shall lie the dnty of the inspectors to see that the opcuing into the chimneys shall be at no point less than fifty per cent, greater than the escape valve.Wsrast, therefore, say, in eoncluskm, that the explosion of the Lytlo was owing entirely to the eki* a*4 h^vy pIaUs or which the boilers wdre made. The excessive heat generated in 4ba fhrnaep by the aforesaid cramp-edwsfedffcmraf^he'Trfin thereby becoming so hosted, was burned and weakened, as proven by Miller, Uti-flraVatfclnMr; had been the casebefore, was usable to resist the great pressure,
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 26, 1866
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