The initial firing had been “in haste” according to one witness. The Assistant Roundhouse Foreman was openly carrying a pistol. He and another investigator from the same bureau also met with Chief Boiler Inspector Ensign during their investigation. Peyton L. Morgan, the maker, based the model on drawings supplied by Popular Mechanics Magazine between 1931 to 1933. Between 1892 and 1975, it was on static display at one of the platforms at Darlington Bank Top railway station.

The owners were accused of locking the doors in order to keep their employees inside and at their machines.

Stoudt, a workman in the cooper shop. 1 used high-pressure steam generated in a centre-flue boiler and driving a pair of vertical cylinders, 9 inches (230 mm) in diameter, which were half embedded within the boiler. This event is not the same type of tragedy as the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire that had occurred the year before on March 25th in New York City. The public committee was never again convened. The Great Locomotive Explosion:a socio-historical examination of a tragedy. Chairman Mayfield had already sent a telegram to Judson C. Clements, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission(ICC), asking that the ICC investigate the incident. The engine was called Locomotion No.

Jose E. Fuentes, a shop painter, was painting a star insignia on the side of the engine’s driving rod.

Regardless of their individual trauma, both the living and the dead were covered with heavy black oil, their flesh embedded with bits of coal and wood splinters. [citation needed], On 16 September 1824, the S&DR ordered a pair of steam locomotives, at a price of £550 (about £44324 today) each.

One valve is found after the explosion indicating that it was screwed down tight.

The first to reach the yard had their hands full. On 25 March it was proposed before the City Council of the City of San Antonio that an ordnance be adopted that would create the position of Boiler Inspector and would require examinations before a board to qualify and certify those persons servicing locomotive, fire engine or stationary boilers within the limits of the municipality. The pressure wave, moving outward from what had been the engine then struck the shops filled with working men. Stephenson R.R. ), #TodayInHistory – September 27 – RANDOM Times •.
The wife of Carl Cisko, a blacksmith, arrived at the yard and after finding that her husband was dead, simply sat down in front of a nearby store, cradling one of her children and sobbed uncontrollably. Captain Guy M Carelton, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Explosives of the American Railway Association arrived in San Antonio on the 22d and began his investigation the next day. Human error – Locomotive No. The immediate intervention by the military, totally outside their legal authority, saved many lives. The “official” investigation was, however, to be separate from the public committee’s hearings.

This surface wave, carrying iron parts, splintered wood, human body parts and other debris, continued outwards from the railroad yard and through the surrounding neighborhoods, uprooting trees, snapping limbs, blasting out windows, and punching holes in residences. The composition of the committee would seem to indicate an intentional balancing of public and private interests. That the question was being openly and repeatedly asked would seem to indicate some level of expectancy in the community. However, the centre-flue boiler proved to be a weakness, providing for a poor heating surface compared to later multi-flue boilers. Within this daily public forum the social responsibility for providing long term aid to those families that had lost their only breadwinner was acknowledged by local leaders and systematically handled. FARRELL L. TUCKER. A known or suspected criminal act of sabotage as the cause of the explosion would have necessitated intentional suppression of evidence by the railroad, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Interstate Commerce Commission at a minimum.

Almost no body was whole. No structure or machine which had stood within a 100 foot radius of No.704 existed. During the Second World War, it was temporarily relocated [at Stanhope] due to the threat of bombing. On 14 April, 1912, R.M.S. The great locomotive explosion is worthy of study from a number of sociological and historical perspectives. Body parts were strewn for blocks. An exact number of citizens injured or killed was never collected. Once a federal officer had arrived the entire investigation became his.

Assistant Inspector McManamy stayed in town to conduct tests on several bolts from the Locomotive No.704 that were possibly of inferior condition, if not actually broken, prior to the accident. The company was incorporated as the Pennsylvania railroad. Many of the men had been brought in so recently that they had yet to draw one pay check, their names were not recorded, many were working under assumed names and even the exact number of men in the yard was not known. See instructions, The maintenance and control of the amount of pressure within the boiler was critical. Most of the men working in the blacksmith’s and machine shops within and near the roundhouse that morning, were new to the yard and to San Antonio. All Rights Reserved. The job knowledge of many of the new men particularly concerning the reporting of pressure problems, was questionable. 704? The Southern Pacific placed guards around its property with instructions to keep the souvenir hunters, ghouls and journalists at bay.

In 1857, as a consequence of its historical importance, Locomotion No. climbing a gradient upon setting off. On 23 June 1823, the pioneering locomotive manufacturer Robert Stephenson and Company was established by the railway engineers George Stephenson and his son Robert Stephenson, and the businessmen Edward Pease and Thomas Richardson. Gillis who resided in a large house at the corner of Mason and Austin streets, were both attending to morning chores in their respective homes. 1 is believed to have been the first locomotive to use coupling rods to connect its driving wheels together, an approach which considerably decreased the chance of slipping. The Southern Pacific Railroad also moved several of the severely injured to the company hospital in Houston within days of the explosion and their fate was never reported locally.
The body of James Valentine, the Assistant Roundhouse Foreman was identified by the pistol that he carried. The lawsuits against the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad were filed almost immediately in the District Courts in San Antonio. Locomotion No.

Various valves and devices had been developed which acted to channel and when necessary, release the pressure. Several blocks away, just outside of the Southern Pacific Roundhouse, near present day Interstate 35 and Austin Street, locomotive No.704, a modern “ten-wheeler” passenger engine of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad was being prepared for regular service. On this morning of the 18th the pressure valves had indicated a possible problem and the initial firing of the boiler had been stopped and the pressure allowed to drop. One had its whistle bent open and the entire rescue operation had to be conducted under its continued, full throated scream which lasted for over two hours, until the pressure subsided and the noise slowly, eerily died away. This oil coating almost immediately caught fire. As the day wore on, thousands of people from all parts of the city arrived to visit the scene of the disaster. As the dead were taken to the morgue’s and the injured to the hospital, the scope of the disaster began to take shape. The Assistant Roundhouse Foreman, James Valentine, was openly carrying a pistol.

On 23 June 1823, the pioneering locomotive manufacturer Robert Stephenson and Company was established by the railway engineers George Stephenson and his son Robert Stephenson, and the businessmen Edward Pease and Thomas Richardson.

Mrs. Howard, had just left the rear of the house when a falling portion of the crown plate, weighing several thousand pounds, tore away the rear section of the house before burying itself into the ground. The blocked valve caused the pressure within the boiler to exceed its capacity, and it exploded. Veronike Cisko and the Mansker family had private settlements, the amounts were not recorded.

Post was not sent - check your email addresses! As the steam found an exit, the split widened, pushing and bending the walls of the cylinder outward, snapping the great wheels from their hubs, breaking the boiler from its carriage and launching the multi-ton cylinder skyward.

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72,000 employees were killed and 2 million injured on the tracks between 1890 and 1917, 158,000 more were killed in repair shops and roundhouses.

1 Certain pieces of that internal structure may have been weakened in the initial accident, in Seguin, which would not be readily apparent, even upon close observation.


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