Steam power gone bad 1912

old-9 · Aug 13, 2015

I found this yesterday, going through mom's house, been cleaning it out.
Our local paper always has a "Looking Back" column , years ago?

1912
"One man with his face burned till it looks like a beefsteak seared with a hot iron, his eyes almost blinded,his right leg broken in two places between the hip and knee and the knee cap torn off, and two frightful wounds in groin and left buttock; another man with his right leg broken just above the ankle, and several others with minor burns and other hurts - these are the toll extracted yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the explosion of a traction engine on the Wallace farm eleven miles southwest of town occupied and managed by Con Dwyer and wife. And yet, bad as the situation is, there is much of good fortune that more were not seriously injured, for there were seventeen men working about the boiler when it let go."

This man was my grandfather. Please forgive the "english " I coppied it word for word, back in 1912 they did not write like today.
thanks joe

ObsoElitist · Aug 13, 2015

How much did he recover from his injuries?
Steam is cool, but as a railroad museum engineer said to me, it is a bomb looking for an excuse to go off.

old-9 · Aug 13, 2015

I don't know very much about his recovery, but my father was born in 1918. I do know he drove school hack and worked at the one room school.

" Wish I could have known him.

fixerupper · Aug 13, 2015

Back then they didn't have modern medicine to help relieve the pain and suffering and fight infection. My granddad who was a dentist was able to prescribe cocain and morphine in those days though.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 14, 2015

I think Coca Cola had a pain med in it when it first came out.

Steam power gone bad 1912

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