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THERE were 155 boiler explosions in 1885, whereby 220 persons were killed and 228 injured. The greater number of explosions, thirty-three, were in saw mills and wood-working shops. Mines, collieries and similar boilers stand second in frequency, twenty being the recorded number. Distilleries and similar establishments are third, with eighteen explosions to their credit. Marine boilers, and those of a portable type, come next, with sixteen in each class. Locomotives, rolling mills and iron-works, and flour mills and grain elevators follow, with ten each to their credit.
REGARDING the heavy fire losses of the country, the relations of insurance companies thereto, and the restrictive legislation proposed in various States regarding them, Insurance Commissioner R. B. Morris of Kansas says:
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