The simple breaking of a governor belt caused an awful catastrophe in Rail Mill No. 2 of the Cambria Steel works at 1:15 Thursday morning. As a result the ponderous fly wheel, weighing forty tons, gained such terrific momentum that it burst from centrifugal force....crashing thru the roof and bursting the steam and water pipes....flooding the floor with two feet of water and filling the room with steam.
List of victims: Edward Cabolsky - Brownstown - scalded to death
Louis Szankovski - found 50 feet away
Frank Fyak - scalded
Martin Hoffman - water boy - missing
FATALLY INJURED: Jake Updyki (Updyke) - Cambria City - scalded to death
Sevac Imeri - fractured skull
Covac Sewowitch - burned and scalded
INJURED: Theodore Hessler - Broad Street - Cambria City
Yarum Sobesk - Third Avenue - Cambria City
Louis Wass - hit by falling iron
William Miller - Roxbury
Jake Demko
Mat Jeusin - Cambria City
James McHugh
George Theis
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