Steamshovel Wreck
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Wreck of a steam shovel in the pit at the United Verde mine, Jerome, Arizona. Two men were killed. When the big steam shovel of the United Verde Copper Company, at the “Big Hole,” dug into powder, it exploded and killed two men, one an engineer and the other the crane operator. The shovel was badly damaged. The explosion was caused by powder from a churn drill hole that had blown over into an old drift. The powder had settled near the bottom of the hole and didn’t explode when a charge was set off. It was ignited when the steam shovel dug into it accidentally. According to newspaper accounts, several buildings were damaged and much plate glass in Jerome was broken by the explosion. A tooth of the huge shovel dipper was hurled through the roof of a nearby hotel, and a piece of the steam shovel shot through the home of a laborer.
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