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BRAUFORU%o■1r.omyi*ytdhiocrr«C-t;JOillJOnrillIln Inqufil anil IN Itifal Kuilrand* and' , i . .-11*011* ^1 v —Htunld Spcclul Reporter. . V• v r ^ • 7 .m BuADFGim, October 3.! At lbo corouerU inquest held' tbin morning ^ Colonel Roberta, Up 0, Johnson, John Carney u and LbYa Eddy, wbo wore the solo witnesses of “ [ Ihe explosion lust oveumg, h«ve tbeir toatluiony ^ establishing. in umat points , the stuiemeuts inndoin tli6 previous neeouutTbo,real euoso of the expliiaion is a mutter of uiyatai' ion a in loros i, win oh the Colonel say ft bo iuteunU to solve nt I bo earliest moment. It. is probable, however, that the mixture was1 hemed to a higher temperature ilmu it or: diuiirily used, Jto explosion was feared, for there lma boon several eases where tlmglycer*. . . . . « ; i .iue in process of mmm fuel live has been Unowu to burn lip—it does not blow up. The Culouul claims Eiizil intuuniug out of ihu factory after he sjiw the fkmiis bursting out of ihis tup of the vat, be did so simply 10 avoid the noxious fumes which arose iu I urge volume, and which um dunxeroua to life if inhaled. •A now fnetury is to le built on the site of the old imo liucl will soon be iu working order.Two men who were employed to explode torpedoes have resigned ihclr ^iuihiioii-q’being pertbolly aulistiod to iniiko their daily bread by sumo met bud less likely to throw I limn out of a situ alum nt so short notice.The verdict: of llio jury was im that J. rl\ Somb, while employed at the tutumfuvUiry of E; A, h. Roberts, for the man ufac turn of ultra J glyccnno, was then and there instautlv killed by ill o' preiuulm'o ex plosion of said . uitr t gl v ee ri no, . wlul o i u pro c e s a o f m n li u fie t u re, said explosion hoiu^ ibo first ease of an oxplo-uo{s'ou tvlido iu the manufacture of .said nitre-on • glycerine, and further, that we can .attach no u ! blame to jtuyono of the accident,”
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Titusville Herald
Titusville, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Oct 05, 1877
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