“…5. The fifth and last explosion to which I shall allude, is the bursting of the boiler in the manufactory of Leander M. Ware, in Providence. Rhode Islund, where ” the boiler, twenty feet long, by two feet in diameter, was thrown out of its appropriate position, and projected over the buildings on the opposite side of the street.” In giving an account of this catastrophe, the writer, with great naivete, remarks, ‘that the water had become exhausted in the boiler, and that the explosion took place the moment the water was let in.’ ”

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