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Copany Wil Probably Have to Stop Using Water from , Tank at TregoThe coroner's jury reached the conclusion yesterday afternoon about ! o'clock that the wreck cf engine No.49 was caused by using water from the Trego tank, which, the jury decided, was unsafe to use in locomotive boilers. This deduction was arrived at from the testimony of witnesses, in substances us follows:That on account of the borax contained in the water at Trego tank it foams when run into the boilers so it is impossible to tei! how much water is in the boilers. The water foams lip and runs out through the stopcocks, gets into the valves and spurts over other parts ol' the engine, which sometimes renders the engine incapable of drawing its load. A compounds is always used when water is taken from ! the Trego tank. Enginemen ail know of the trouble it causes and never take any more than they feel compelled to take to run them to the next tank.The testimony of W. W. Richardson, the man who installed the steam heating apparatus in the Nixon opera house, is es]jK‘io,liy interesting. lie test 1 lied that he hud ’ examined the wrecked parts, which are piled on three llatcars between the depot and roundhouse, and he believed the explosion had been caused by the water being too low in the boiler when cold water was turned in, causing superheated steam. He said the crown sheets wore blue, being colored so much that ho nt first thought the wreck had been afire. He called attention to the fact that the explosion was practically confined to the firebox and that the boiler was comparatively intact. He said if there had been a soft plug In the crown sheet the plug would have melted before the explosion and the men would have had ample warning to escape.Star.-Humboldt
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Reno Evening Gazette
Reno, Nevada, US
Mon, Apr 29, 1912
Page 5
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