Battery Of Boilers Explode

A battery of fonr steel boilers at Spang, Chnlfant& Co. 's steel and Ironworksat Etnaborough Pa., exploded with terrific force the other raornlug, eomp'.etely wreeking the bar miil department. The (■■ui usaion was so great tliat it shook tlio j ■ i (Or miles around, shattering tho Windows In the vicinity of the mili. Tho firenian, (ienrge Patterson. was instan tl V kille. land hisbody maugled almost bevond recognitioD. Wm. Coeville. an employé, was terrlbly scalded ! died in a short time. Barclay Knocton and several others wero severely iujured. One pieeo of boiler iron, weigliin; 1,(XX) pounds. out it way throtigh the entire mili and feil fully BOu yards away. Another piece, weigbiag 2,500 pounds, oat its way througb tl)O trunk of b tree two feet ; in dianintcr, and was found lilO yards trom (he ruined mili. The rnill was one of the largest in the city, aud w.is the flrstone to use natural gas.