A Knoxville correspondent, speaking of the
Mathews boiler explosion, says:
Not a sign of the engine or boiler was left where it
stood. Mr. Forest J. Mathews, the proprietor of the
mil), and one of Crawlord's best young men, was
torn into atoms; he was thrown seventy-five yards
through the tops of trees. Every bone in him was
broken; half of his head was torn off and all of his
brains were gone. All of his clothing were torn off
of him. He presented a ghastly and horrible sight.
Hamp Richardson, a negro, was thrown fifty yards
and torn all to pieces. No two portions of his
body was found together and his heal has not been
found'yet. _
Henry Filter, colored, was killed, his brains was
knocked out.
Eli Colbert, who is fatally injured, was thrownup
twenty feet into the air, and fell through the top
of tiie an oak tree, all of his clothing were torn off
of him.
The machinery was 1 lown in every direction. A
piece of the boiler that would weight 1.'.00 pounds
was thrown fifty yards, it struck a pine in a few
feetof tiie mill that inches in diameter
knocked it up by the roots,broke it into small pieces
and through a piece twenty feet long forty yards.
The crown was thrown yards feet in another
direction, struck a wagon and tore it all to pieces.
