The direct cause of the explosion was an over-pressure of steam in a miserable boiler ... had been used seven months ; it was a locomotive boiler. We have no strictures to make on buying it ...
Those boilers were built on the locomotive principle ... have allowed them 73 1/3 pounds of steam on these boilers. To Juror -- I think that the explosion could have been avoided if the engineer ...
Soon after, the boiler erupted in a huge explosion, which sadly killed the engineer George Hutchinson. A newspaper article reporting from his inquest the following week said: “The steam ...