Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Grover Shoe Factory disaster" in English language version.
One hundred fifty-nine boiler explosions occurred in 1880, the year that a small group of men assembled in New York City to found the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The men of the Campello firehouse were heroes that day. As hundreds of workers and residents of the Campello neighborhood ran from the fire, the Campello firefighters charged into the inferno looking for workers whose cries for help were barely audible over the roar of the flames.
...the timeworn boiler succumbed to age and poor engineering and exploded at its seams. The boiler ripped itself from its stanchions and tore a path through the four-story building, turning it into a crematorium.
The city is in mourning for fifty-three of her citizens whose lives were blotted out early to-day by the explosion of a boiler in a large shoe manufacturing establishment in the Campello district, conducted by the R.B. Grover Company.
Fifty-five dead, 14 identified, 45 missing, and 268 employees of the factory accounted for is, in brief, to-night the situation following yesterday's boiler explosion and fire at the shoe factory of R. B. Grover Co.
The boiler, weighing more than a ton, rocketed through the room, struck the ceiling, bounced back down and then smashed through the opposite wall of the cafeteria, killing and maiming those in its path.
The boiler traveled several hundred feet, damaging a number of buildings and coming to rest in the wall of a house.
On December 6, 1906, another serious explosion took place at a shoe factory, this time in Lynn. Although only one person was reported killed, this incident motivated the Governor of Massachusetts to include in his inaugural address a month later a demand for prompt action.
