, 1874-02-15
Further Particulars Of the Phil
adelphia Brewery
Disaster.
Twelve Dead Bodies Taken from the
Ruins;
Six Others Seriously and Eighteen
Slightly Injured.
Yesterdays Record Of Casualties Else
where.


The Philadelphia Brcwexy-Disu8tcT.
Special Dapatea 70 Tie Chicago Tribune.
PHnADELrH1, Feb. 14.-Aftcr the close Of Your
correspondents report LAST ugh: Of tho terrible ac
dent st M1er's brewery. situated .. Brewtown, tbs
sca1ch for the missing still continued With unAbotcd
sgoT, and resulted in the discovery Of two rocn, who
were badly injured. numbsr OF desd bodies vero
also e1huraed- At ate hour last night whilst digging
in the ruins, two officers and m unknown man
FELL IS1o QUARRY.
Thu latter instantly killed, @nd the former
severely injured that their recovery is doubtful. Al
the brewerea in the vicinity Furnished largo gangs Ct
men to help In clearing the ruins. The task Ct re-
moving the la1ge beams Of great difficulty,
IT required much lest they might fall
Fortunate who might perh.ps be alive, smal
piece Of timber might be the key or support Of large
H7ss-
ONLY TWO HEs HAVE nEEx RESCUED A11vE-
Their names arc John and Michael, or Niles MURPHY.
short time after tho accident occurred they UcE&
heard talking to c.ch other. They
COULD NOT SEE EACH OTHER,
but it is supposed that heard tie othcrs Grcars.
Although seated upon Ee Of Ice unable to e1trcata
himsen, he was wonderfully cheerful He c7ie.a to
his companion. "Wh.t Is your name ;" Murphy"
Michael evinced considerable uncasjn.xs 1t hi4 cold
aud craped position, and said that the men He1e not
trying to relieve them. Hold your Eah, said Jun:a,
they're getting At you fast they c1n." Tho fact
FINDING 1REX ALIVE
When all hope Of saving any more had been Alraost
abandoned, stimulated the workers to renewed
tons. About o:15 this morning the body Of an unknown
German boy aged about Il year'. ~asdGs up Shortly
afterwards the body OF German, aged about IS years.
with full beard, was aso found Both were
FROZEN TO DEATH,
aud were perfectly rigid. The boy bore no rnarks,
but be wedged in with ce- The arms Of the unan.
whose body wa8 crushed to = Jelly, wece lifted, a.
to protect his head (which was bowed to h1s bsca4s
Foun MORE BODIES,
shocktng1y Inang1ed and dtsdgu1ed beJond recognt-
ton, were afterwards exhumed-
As far Is could ascertain there arc 1t present writ
for 81 rapidly u the circumstances permit. Their
whereabouts has been CLEANED from tho rescued John
Murphy, who says he WAS talking to both 5oIuo time
n{ter the fall, hut both
SUDDENLY STOPPED srEAK1xo.
It Is pretty certain TINT the unfortunate men sre
de1d.
very large crowd were present during tho entire
day. and sutdued, but Intense excitement prevailed
throughout.
TIE nEsuLr THE DlsAs7EEr
IS far known, uaJ be summed up "a follows:
Killed, II; seriously hurt, g. slightly injured, 1e.
THE BREWERY
was erected at cost Of about $5o,0 ,0oo Ihese wers
about barrels Of beer In the vas V2ucd At a5out
{l5GO0, all Of which lcst- There T.s also large
quantity Of valuable machinery, furnaces, keti1c1
neutrality-suspicious., malt, hops ETC., In the rn1eso
building, and the pecuuia:y loss will amount 10 ta1
of *1C0,c00 .u
Building Inspector nobeIt Bowers Examined Ing
runa morning. aud discovered that The portion OF
the building which tint fell had been partially sua~
taIned bY 61x columns. The utu1ie coiuous tulcu II
number, werc found to have penetrated toe atrn oe
lov where they were found sticking th's 1o:n1ng.
Two theories hare been -rr1fed a. f1tsl; 'ns' eao
brickwork Of the arch not strong enoI9n 10 oe3
tho columns; second, that the weigh: OF :he ICE,
which amounted to 1870 car: loads caused sAc Wall 70
bulge throwing tho weight On the columns.