AMERICAN HORRORS.

Evening Star, Issue 11680, 12 February 1902, Page 5

AMERICAN HORRORS.

A VOLCANO OF MOLTEN LEAD. A volcano of molten lead was poured into the air at Pittsburg on December 19, when an accumulation of gas caused a big blast furnace of Messrs Jones and Laughlin to blow up. Fourteen men (says the 'Morning Lender's' correspondent) were at the too of the furnace trying to adjust the disarranged machinery. Five were blown bodily into the air." Four others fell from the platform, 130 ft high, to the ground, practically encased in molten metal. The remainder clung on to the edge of the furnace, and were badly burned. Nine were killed on the spot, two are' still living. All were Slavs and Poles answering at the foundry to numbeis and not names. Tons of metal, cinders, and slag were poured over the adjacent houses, TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER. Near the uplands of California the southbound express met the north-bound Sunset, Limited, in a head-on collision on the Southern Pacific Railway at two o'clock on December 20. Both trains were totally wrecked. The Sunset, Limited, caught fire, and almost the entire train was burned. The south-bound was packed with passengers, including eighty soldiers just returned from the Philippines on their way to their homes. Tiny were singing and disporting themselves hilariously to the amusement of the other passengers when the catastrophe occurred. The first report stated thai twelve nl the soldiers were killed, and also thai twenty persons were burned to death in the north-bound tram. The Southern Pacific officials refused to give particulars, and as this company control the wires in that region no outsiders could obtain information.