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I of Chi-ncuracyle* Sheid CtTi-s thirdl rnedi-ind thehe fifthelabo-l melo* , Lin-ido are find a 1 at theiveningi/, u», u.re nere on a snoreVacation visit.SaFatal Explosion -Killkj-Ode Man.On Saturday, Sept. 12, at about10:80 as the little steamer owned by EUa* Stafford of Montezuma, contractor and driller of oil wells, andused In towing material to and from Cellnaand the Manhatten oil fieldsome three milos out In the reser*Cifcvoir, was preparing to start with a load of material to the field fromher dock at the m, est bank one-half mile south of Cellna, the boiler suddenly without any previous warn-up-to- Ing exploded. The force of the exbuild- plosion threw the boiler and engine lecured out through the bow end of the boat reature tearing out the whole ebd. The und, a boiler was thrown in a norfch-west-l - each erly direction first striking In the Mom Oct. 1, middle of the pike, then bounded ter?sthrough a picket fence about two The i hundred feet from the boat and ten seem or twelve feet higher than the boat. All, The engine .was thrown nearly the linen me distance in a more northern *ea •lt; Spoke direction and struck the stone riprap tain 1■trfct- brMkinr the wheel Into several loalc* tv pIec6H ‘“d mattering the stone, and i* Seven inen were in and around the •♦To h and boat *t the time, James Colson, the Keeph 1/1° en8*1*eer' being the only man in the he fol- jje wag thrown out throughandPrlni cash t{je roo( an(j 8trQ0k the water someMl:. 180 or 70 feet from the boat. TbejtheJtopI other men were knocked and blown into the water, but none of those on at top the out side were hurt beyond a fewThlt;scratches/ As soon as they could cornFloter at(ter atP| gather themselves together Win. Johnson and Jack Carter jumped In I are a a bb*t near by and went to 4he •res-1 smai cue of Mr. Colson who was floating on the water; The men realizing I supp]the serious condition ,of the man enoujnot hurried;htm to the fcfflce of Drs.I Wintfrmute A Hattery where hisWPUM* were pronounced fatal. The. ...Vm!* thea taken to his ing aM *i0 i^tesamifwhere he died ; ,'p. ]*; I i%dJolr *m - 'MW C c*aL^TA.-1»w. iiv, w.vtw/PPa'lifowl dufetf^Wdd Lefea«lt;,; R. ii#•TT:R;*-*• K*\'109u H*dow ][hhth
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Mercer County Observer
Celina, Ohio, US
Thu, Sep 17, 1896
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