boiler. Inspector Harker.of the Sanitary squad, has reported to Superintendent Walling that everythiug connected with the steam apparatus was in good order. The inspector said that one of the copper tanks filled with material for making candy must have exploded, breaking the kerosene lamps with which the building was lighted, and scattering the burning fluid in every direction The total loss is 428,000 dollars ; insurance 336,000 dollars. To-day the mothers, fathers brothers, sisters, and friends of the wounded and missing besieged the porters' rooms of the New York hospital, making inquiries for those whom they sought, and pleading for admission. Three of the number wounded have been enveloped almost from head to foot in bandages ; and two had their hair burned so close to the scalp that, with their swollen and blackened features, they resemble negroes.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 24, 28 January 1878, Page 2
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136Untitled Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 24, 28 January 1878, Page 2
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