Columbia Democrat And Star Of The North

About four o'clock on Sunday morning last, the locomotive—"James Archibald"—of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad was blown up, while standing at the Irondale Switch near this place. From the reports we are able to gather, the boiler was neglected until it became dry or nearly dry, when the engineer turned water into it, producing a large quantity of steam—the boiler being very much heated—the force of which in expansion burst the lower part of the boiler and fire-place off, and threw the back part of the engine upward, with such force as to turn it over upon the end. Wm. Hornbecker, the engineer, was at the time standing over the boiler and was carried up with the locomotive. When found he was fast under the ruins with his feet, and could only be extricated by the aid of jack-screws. He is severely injured though it is thought not fatally.