1947: Steam locomotive explodes, kills night watchman

Blast launches 20-ton boiler an estimated 100 feet high

By Mike Siefker, Kingsbury Journal
Posted 12/8/21

It is just past midnight, Oct. 8, 1947. The majority of the residents in Lake Preston are asleep, when out of the silence and darkness… BOOM!!! An explosion is heard at 12:15 a.m. throughout all of …

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