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  The East Shore News
  Pentwater, Michigan
  March 22, 1872

        Steam Boiler Explosion - Three Men Killed.
        The boiler in the steam saw-mill of Loaver & Lowrey, at Moline,
     near Grand Rapids, exploded on the 5th, destroying the mill, killing
     three men instantly, and fearfully wounding several others. MR. JAMES
     LOAVER, one of the proprietors, had his head and legs blown off and
     carried some distance from his body. LEVI STAUFFER, engineer, and FRED
     HUFF, in the employ of Berkey Bros. & Gay as a log scaler, were also
     injured seriously by the falling of the smoke stack; BIGELOW JEFFERD,
     badly scalded and burned; DAVID GRANBY, mortally wounded by scalding
     steam, and ABRAHAM HACKETT, fearfully burned. MR. HUFF's head was
     blown off and carried with half of the steam boiler about fifteen rods
     from the mill. MR. STAUFFER was a poor man, and he has left a wife and
     six children.
        The mill was completely torn to pieces, and the town thrown into
     consternation and mourning.

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