Five persons are dead, two are at the point of death having been scalded when the boiller at the Yeast factory here exploded.
The factory owned by a Mr. Salpeter, a recently arrived pioneer from Hungary was completely demolished and one worker was killed outright. Salpeter, his wife and two employees, Herman and Fish, died of the wounds yesterday.
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