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The Daily Express, San Antonio, TX
Friday, 18 January, 1895

         FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION
         
         Four Men Scalded to Death and About
          Ten Badly Injured.
          
         Alto, Tex., Jan. 17 - (Special) - News has been received
       of a terrible accident which took place this evening about
       2 o'clock at MANUEL HAMILTON'S saw mill, seven miles east
       of town. The boiler exploded, resulting in the death of
       four men; TOBE RICHARDS, ALEX and WILL LEWIS and ABNER LEE.
       The injured are: ALEX HAMILTON, arm broken; RICHARD LOFTIN,
       leg broken; NOAH MILLER, PETER VAN BUREN and MANUEL HAMIL-
       TON, badly bruised, and several others, names not learned,
       badly scalded. All parties are colored. Physicians left
       for the scene this evening. Further particulars are un-
       obtainable.
       
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