June 10, 1919 – A steam turbine at the Minnesota and Ontario Paper company’s International Falls, Minn., mill exploded, killing the night engineer and seriously injuring the day engineer. “The accident occurred just as the day shift was replacing the night shift.
The force of the explosion was so great that it shattered the building and pieces of the mammoth turbine were hurled in all directions. It is one of the [batteries] of machines [that] generate electricity for the paper mill machinery.”
Duluth News-Tribune; “Turbine Bursts, Kills One Man, Explosion at International Falls Paper Mill Shatters Building”; June 11, 1919.
The force of the explosion was so great that it shattered the building and pieces of the mammoth turbine were hurled in all directions. It is one of the [batteries] of machines [that] generate electricity for the paper mill machinery.”
Duluth News-Tribune; “Turbine Bursts, Kills One Man, Explosion at International Falls Paper Mill Shatters Building”; June 11, 1919.
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