This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACI/2643 Message Board Post: Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois) August 30, 1892 Rutland, Vt., Aug 29 - The boiler at the electric light station in Brandon, a town 16 miles north of here, exploded Saturday night. Adolphus Germond, 50 years old, was instantly killed, and his son Joseph, the engineer, and Charles Hoyles, the assistant engineer, were very seriously injured. The damage to property is about $5,000. (Adolphus Jermain, age 37, and family, including 6-year-old Joseph, are listed in Mendon in 1880; Joseph German, age 26, is listed in Rutland in 1900.)