By Roger Chartier

Acushnet Mills Boiler Explosion - Feb 27, 1897

Police Station disaster

Read about the destruction on the chronological history page for 1897
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This picture is of the explosion and the Police Station.

This image shows where part of a boiler flew 700 feet and crashed though the wall of the Police station leaving the huge metal mass to land here.

The details are shocking.