The New Hampshire Gazette

Steam Explosion and loss of lives.—We learn from the Pittsburgh Advocate that a dreadful explosion of the boilers of the Eagle Cotton Factory in the borough of Alleghany, took place about 5 o'clock on Monday morning. The extensive building and valuable machinery which it contained, are utterly destroyed, and lie in a mass of ruins. But this is nothing when compared with the loss of lives. James Mariatt, a Frenchman, was killed on the spot. Alexander Morrow, 1st engineer, was so badly scalded, that his life is despaired of; two boys are missing, supposed to be buried in the ruins; another boy killed, and three young women badly wounded, all having limbs broken. To the early hour at which the catastrophe occurred, probably many now living owe their lives.