Son of Charles "Peter" Brushart Sr. & Phoebe Philippina Scheu Shy
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A disastrous explosion of a boiler to a portable saw mill in Pike county, near the Scioto County line, occurred shortly after one o'clock last Monday afternoon (21 January 1878), whereby Lewis Brushart, brother of H.H. and John Brushart, of this city, lost his life, and his partners, John Adams and Martin Smith received painful injuries. The operators of the mill had just finished their dinner, which they had eaten in a social circle around the boiler, the engine was started and the saw had run but once through the log on the tramway when the boiler exploded with a terrible force, scattering ruin and desolation on every side. Mr. Brushart, who had his hand on some part of the machinery had the arm severed and blown one hundred feet from the body, while the latter was lifted up and carried by the force of the explosion thirty yard distance and violently thrown over a fence, the collision of this fall drove a hole in the earth where he fell. He was bruised about the head, his clothes were striped from him, and the sole of one of his shoes broke off. His death, was of course, instantaneous. The heavy fly wheel of the engine was broken into small pieces, and the engine was wrecked. Mr. Adams, the sawyer, had an arm broken and receive serious internal injuries. Martin Smith had an arm dislocated, and Charles Erich received a painful gash in his leg, that has confined him to his room. The dinner bucket was found on a stump several hundred feet away with the bottom blown out. A pair of horses barely escaped death. They were hitched to a neighboring tree, the smoke stack struck this tree literally wrapping around it, the frightened animal breaking away. The survivors stated that they never heard the explosion. Smith first return to consciousness, and thought he had been hit by a flying piece of timber from the saw. He called to Adams to know what happened, where the later replied his arm was broken. They then looked up to see the wreck, and recognized the true state of the case. Erich was found unconscious, on a lumber pile, where the explosion had thrown him. The cripples instituted a search for Brushart, and was directed by the pittious whining of his dog that had found him. The deceased was the second oldest son of Peter Brushart of Germania, of Pike County and was united in marriage last New Years Eve to Miss Linnie (Magdalena) Davis. He was an exemplary young man, in his 24th year, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was an attendant upon the Bible classes of his church. His funeral services were conducted at the neighborhood church last Wednesday, and the entire neighborhood turned out en mass to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of one whose untimely end they deplore. It is one of the singular features of the sad accident that Monday was the last day they intended to operate the engine, as they distrusted the safety of the ill-fated boiler. They had but a small lot of lumber to saw when they contemplated discarded it and using a new boiler they had engaged.
Portsmouth Times.
Saturday, 26 January 1878
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A disastrous explosion of a boiler to a portable saw mill in Pike county, near the Scioto County line, occurred shortly after one o'clock last Monday afternoon (21 January 1878), whereby Lewis Brushart, brother of H.H. and John Brushart, of this city, lost his life, and his partners, John Adams and Martin Smith received painful injuries. The operators of the mill had just finished their dinner, which they had eaten in a social circle around the boiler, the engine was started and the saw had run but once through the log on the tramway when the boiler exploded with a terrible force, scattering ruin and desolation on every side. Mr. Brushart, who had his hand on some part of the machinery had the arm severed and blown one hundred feet from the body, while the latter was lifted up and carried by the force of the explosion thirty yard distance and violently thrown over a fence, the collision of this fall drove a hole in the earth where he fell. He was bruised about the head, his clothes were striped from him, and the sole of one of his shoes broke off. His death, was of course, instantaneous. The heavy fly wheel of the engine was broken into small pieces, and the engine was wrecked. Mr. Adams, the sawyer, had an arm broken and receive serious internal injuries. Martin Smith had an arm dislocated, and Charles Erich received a painful gash in his leg, that has confined him to his room. The dinner bucket was found on a stump several hundred feet away with the bottom blown out. A pair of horses barely escaped death. They were hitched to a neighboring tree, the smoke stack struck this tree literally wrapping around it, the frightened animal breaking away. The survivors stated that they never heard the explosion. Smith first return to consciousness, and thought he had been hit by a flying piece of timber from the saw. He called to Adams to know what happened, where the later replied his arm was broken. They then looked up to see the wreck, and recognized the true state of the case. Erich was found unconscious, on a lumber pile, where the explosion had thrown him. The cripples instituted a search for Brushart, and was directed by the pittious whining of his dog that had found him. The deceased was the second oldest son of Peter Brushart of Germania, of Pike County and was united in marriage last New Years Eve to Miss Linnie (Magdalena) Davis. He was an exemplary young man, in his 24th year, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was an attendant upon the Bible classes of his church. His funeral services were conducted at the neighborhood church last Wednesday, and the entire neighborhood turned out en mass to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of one whose untimely end they deplore. It is one of the singular features of the sad accident that Monday was the last day they intended to operate the engine, as they distrusted the safety of the ill-fated boiler. They had but a small lot of lumber to saw when they contemplated discarded it and using a new boiler they had engaged.
Portsmouth Times.
Saturday, 26 January 1878
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Son of Charles "Peter" Brushart Sr. & Phoebe Philippina Scheu Shy
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A disastrous explosion of a boiler to a portable saw mill in Pike county, near the Scioto County line, occurred shortly after one o'clock last Monday afternoon (21 January 1878), whereby Lewis Brushart, brother of H.H. and John Brushart, of this city, lost his life, and his partners, John Adams and Martin Smith received painful injuries. The operators of the mill had just finished their dinner, which they had eaten in a social circle around the boiler, the engine was started and the saw had run but once through the log on the tramway when the boiler exploded with a terrible force, scattering ruin and desolation on every side. Mr. Brushart, who had his hand on some part of the machinery had the arm severed and blown one hundred feet from the body, while the latter was lifted up and carried by the force of the explosion thirty yard distance and violently thrown over a fence, the collision of this fall drove a hole in the earth where he fell. He was bruised about the head, his clothes were striped from him, and the sole of one of his shoes broke off. His death, was of course, instantaneous. The heavy fly wheel of the engine was broken into small pieces, and the engine was wrecked. Mr. Adams, the sawyer, had an arm broken and receive serious internal injuries. Martin Smith had an arm dislocated, and Charles Erich received a painful gash in his leg, that has confined him to his room. The dinner bucket was found on a stump several hundred feet away with the bottom blown out. A pair of horses barely escaped death. They were hitched to a neighboring tree, the smoke stack struck this tree literally wrapping around it, the frightened animal breaking away. The survivors stated that they never heard the explosion. Smith first return to consciousness, and thought he had been hit by a flying piece of timber from the saw. He called to Adams to know what happened, where the later replied his arm was broken. They then looked up to see the wreck, and recognized the true state of the case. Erich was found unconscious, on a lumber pile, where the explosion had thrown him. The cripples instituted a search for Brushart, and was directed by the pittious whining of his dog that had found him. The deceased was the second oldest son of Peter Brushart of Germania, of Pike County and was united in marriage last New Years Eve to Miss Linnie (Magdalena) Davis. He was an exemplary young man, in his 24th year, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was an attendant upon the Bible classes of his church. His funeral services were conducted at the neighborhood church last Wednesday, and the entire neighborhood turned out en mass to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of one whose untimely end they deplore. It is one of the singular features of the sad accident that Monday was the last day they intended to operate the engine, as they distrusted the safety of the ill-fated boiler. They had but a small lot of lumber to saw when they contemplated discarded it and using a new boiler they had engaged.
Portsmouth Times.
Saturday, 26 January 1878
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A disastrous explosion of a boiler to a portable saw mill in Pike county, near the Scioto County line, occurred shortly after one o'clock last Monday afternoon (21 January 1878), whereby Lewis Brushart, brother of H.H. and John Brushart, of this city, lost his life, and his partners, John Adams and Martin Smith received painful injuries. The operators of the mill had just finished their dinner, which they had eaten in a social circle around the boiler, the engine was started and the saw had run but once through the log on the tramway when the boiler exploded with a terrible force, scattering ruin and desolation on every side. Mr. Brushart, who had his hand on some part of the machinery had the arm severed and blown one hundred feet from the body, while the latter was lifted up and carried by the force of the explosion thirty yard distance and violently thrown over a fence, the collision of this fall drove a hole in the earth where he fell. He was bruised about the head, his clothes were striped from him, and the sole of one of his shoes broke off. His death, was of course, instantaneous. The heavy fly wheel of the engine was broken into small pieces, and the engine was wrecked. Mr. Adams, the sawyer, had an arm broken and receive serious internal injuries. Martin Smith had an arm dislocated, and Charles Erich received a painful gash in his leg, that has confined him to his room. The dinner bucket was found on a stump several hundred feet away with the bottom blown out. A pair of horses barely escaped death. They were hitched to a neighboring tree, the smoke stack struck this tree literally wrapping around it, the frightened animal breaking away. The survivors stated that they never heard the explosion. Smith first return to consciousness, and thought he had been hit by a flying piece of timber from the saw. He called to Adams to know what happened, where the later replied his arm was broken. They then looked up to see the wreck, and recognized the true state of the case. Erich was found unconscious, on a lumber pile, where the explosion had thrown him. The cripples instituted a search for Brushart, and was directed by the pittious whining of his dog that had found him. The deceased was the second oldest son of Peter Brushart of Germania, of Pike County and was united in marriage last New Years Eve to Miss Linnie (Magdalena) Davis. He was an exemplary young man, in his 24th year, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was an attendant upon the Bible classes of his church. His funeral services were conducted at the neighborhood church last Wednesday, and the entire neighborhood turned out en mass to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of one whose untimely end they deplore. It is one of the singular features of the sad accident that Monday was the last day they intended to operate the engine, as they distrusted the safety of the ill-fated boiler. They had but a small lot of lumber to saw when they contemplated discarded it and using a new boiler they had engaged.
Portsmouth Times.
Saturday, 26 January 1878
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SON OF P. & P. BRUSHART
AGED 23 YRS. 3 MO. & 26 DS.
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