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We at an Engine Dm.—Trouble never comes singly. No sooner did Messrs. Seaber Grube receive, notice that they must move their shop to other quarters when they were visited by a mishap which will cost them considerable to have repaired. On Wednesday morning between nine and ten o’clock, after having planed off a a lot of walnut timber, the engine running at a high speed under 70 lbs. of steam pressure, and just as all had stepped outside, a terrible racket was was heard. Everything appeared to be breaking to pieces and first impression was that the boiler was bursting. No one dared to go in. The entire building was shaking. Peeping in at the crack of a door it was seen that the machinery was moving at a terrible rate, and the shafting revolving so fast that it could hardly be seen. Just then Levi Brown made his appearance and in the midst of all the danger ran inside and shut off the steam. The cause of all this was occasioned by the governor of the engine, which ceased to perform its part. The damage done was now only visible. The large wooden pulleys were shattered to pieces, and parts hurled throughout the room and some through the ceiling. One iron pulley with spokes as thick as a inau’s wrist was broken in half a dozen parts. A circular saw was torn out of place and found its way Into a'post a short distance off, where it stuck in the wood the full length of the long teeth. One window had every bit of glass knocked out and the sash broken. Things generally looked terrible. It was a very fortunate thing that no one was Inside at the time, or we would no doubt be compelled to chronicle a sadShort Notice.—Messrs. Seaber Grube, whose planing mill stands on ■the ground of the Beading and Columbia Railroad, at this place, and against the tobacco warehouse of William Smith, have received notice from the railroad company to remoye their mill in thirty days’ time. The cause of this notice was brought about by Mr. Seligsburg, of New York, who owns considerable tobacco in Smith’s warehouse. which the insurance companies refused to insure on account of its close proximity to the planing mill.When Messrs. Seaber Grube received the official notice they were taken by surprise. To move at this season of the year, when full of orders and as busy as bees, meaus considerable. It wil be a loss of at least $500 to them, and the worst of it is they do not as yet know where they will locate. Places are scarce and it will be impossible for them to move in the time given to them to vacate the premises.
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Lititz Record
Lititz, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jul 22, 1881
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