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Interesting RPPC postcard photo of people gathered at the Rolling Mill in York PA. Charred remnants of the area where a boiler explosion took place in 1908, killing 10. Locomotive, crane going through ruins...
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York Rolling Mill Explosion Aug. 10, 1908 -:45PM in which 8 were killed and 13 injured
Photographed by Daniel J. Diehl 712 Prospect St. York
AZO photographic paper dates to 1904-1918
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It hurled a piece of the boiler, which weighed up to two tons, into the back of a home on North Queen Street. And it attracted a crowd of about 5,000 people who either heard the explosion or felt the earth shake. The explosion happened just before 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, 1908, and the headlines in "The Gazette" the following day declared it to be the "most horrible catastrophe" in the city's history.
Articles from the day after the explosion to a coroner's inquest into the deaths indicated a problem with "Jumbo." The boiler was reported to be "defective" in an article the day after the explosion. A coroner's jury found the iron of the boiler had been pitted and corroded to such an extent that there wasn't more than one-sixteenth of an inch of metal thickness in many places, according to a copy of the handwritten report at the York County Heritage Trust. That's why the jury believed the boiler was unable to stand the steam pressure and exploded.
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