STOURBRIDGE: B. BROOMHALL, PRINTER, HIGH STREET.
1869.
BOILER EXPLOSIONS IN 1866.
No. 1. Nottingham.
January 1st.
none injured.
Locomotive, 110 lbs., standing with steam up near a platform. All but the fire box was blown away, the main portion being thrown a distance of 400 yards. The first rent took place at a longitudinal seam of the barrel where grooving had gone on very rapidly, which was not discovered when examined and tested a short time before.
No. 2. Walsall. ([Fig. 1.])