One of the most terrific locomotive boiler explosions probably that ever occurred, took place last night at the New-York and Eric Railroad Stations, at the Long Dock in Jersey City, causing the ...

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The direct cause of the explosion was an over-pressure of steam ... had been made in Canadaand had been used seven months ; it was a locomotive boiler. We have no strictures to make on buying ...

At Leeds Industrial Museum, she saw the world's oldest model locomotive ... A short time later, the boiler erupted in a huge explosion, which killed engineer George Hutchinson.