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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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BOILER BLAST WRECKS RANGE. 



Miller Place Practically Destroyed. 



As the result of the explosion of a 115 

 horse-po\Yer steam boiler, which occurred 

 at 1:30 p. m. April 21, the extensive 

 greenhouses of Miller Bros., of Bracon- 

 dale, Toronto, Ont., were reduced to a 

 wreck. The most remarkable feature of 

 the accident was that of the twenty-three 

 employees who were Avorking in the 

 houses at the time, not one was injured 

 seriously enough to render him unable 

 to work. The loss is estimated by F. 

 H. Miller at in the neighborhood of $50,- 

 000, none of which is covered by insur- 

 ance. 



The scene of the wreck was a picture 

 of almost complete destruction that at- 

 tracted crowds of people. The solid brick 

 boiler house, the walls of which were 

 nearly two feet thick, was literally level 

 with the ground, and the brick chimney, 

 eighty feet high, was scattered over an 

 immense area. The largest piece of the 

 boiler which exploded was found lying in 

 the center of a field a quarter of a mile 

 away, A smaller boiler, which weighed 

 quite a ton and a half, was intact 200 

 yards away. The field adjacent to the 

 greenhouses was covered with broken and 

 twisted pieces of iron pipe and machin- 

 ery, bricks and wood. Smaller scraps of 

 wood and iron are reported to have fal- 

 len at various points within a mile of 

 the scene of the wreck. The ends of all 

 the greenhouses next the boiler house 

 were completely wrecked, and the un- 

 broken panes of glass left in the houses 

 were few. Of the residences in the im- 

 mediate neighborhood many of the win- 

 dows were broken by the concussion, the 

 noise of which was heard for miles. 



The cause of the explosion is a mys- 

 tery. The fireman, William Warren, who 

 was newly in the employ of Miller Bros., 

 had lit the fire only half an hour before. 

 He with Edwin T. Miller had just no- 

 ticed that the steam gauge was register- 



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ing only five pounds of steam, and that 

 the glass tube seemed to show the boiler 

 to be half full of water, but still steam 

 was escaping from the safety valve at 

 the back of the boiler in an unusual 

 way. Seeing that something was wrong, . 

 they hastened to warn the others who 

 were in the buildings. They had scarcely 



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left the room when the explosion oc- 

 curred. Every one was hurled to the 

 ground and received showers of glass, 

 but no one was seriously hurt, their in- 

 juries consisting of a few cuts and 

 scratches. That none was killed is re- 

 garded by all as little short of a miracle. 

 The only theory advanced by F. H. 



