Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Vellines, Marsden H. February 14, 1896
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Norfolk Virginian February 14, 1896

                                BLOWN EIGHTY FEET

               A Boiler Maker Receives Injuries Which Prove Fatal

By an explosion of a steam cylinder at the creosoting works at Money Point, on 
the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, yesterday morning, Mr. Marsden H. 
Vellines, a son of ex-police captain M.J. Vellines, of this city, was terribly 
scalded and blown eighty feet, receiving injuries which proved fatal, having 
died at St. Vincent's Hospital at 1 o'clock this morning.
Mr. Vellines, who was a boiler-maker by trade, was employed by the Elizabeth 
Iron Works, of this city. He had been detailed by the manager to go to Money 
Point to do some general repairing at the creosoting company's plant and 
yesterday morning when Manager Christian put steam pressure on one of the 
cylinders to test its capacity, Mr. Vellines observed that there was a leak in 
it. He went to it and began calking the opening, when suddenly the cylinder 
parted and he was enveloped in the steam which issued in great clouds from the 
break.
He was brought up to the city in the afternoon on a tug and carried to St.  
Vincent's Hospital, where he died as stated.
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                            With Military Honors

Mr. M.H. Vellines, the unfortunate victim of the explosion at Money Point, was a 
corporal in the Lee Rifles of this city and will be buried by that command with 
military honors this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Norfolk Virginian February 15, 1896
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The funeral of the late M. H. Vellines will take place from St. Mary’s Catholic 
Church this afternoon at 3 o’clock.

Norfolk Virginian February 15, 1896



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