The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-05-05
SICKENING SCENES.
Search for the Dead Among
the Ruins.
Bla k and UnrecOgnizable Remains Of
the Victims.
Estimates of Number Placed at
Sixteen.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 4.--Durng the whole
day the scene of yesterdays explosion has
been the center of intense excitement, per-
vading the whole city and surrounding
places. The ruins this morning pre- anted
c lly shapeless heaps of stone, where six
mills destroyed had stood, which still
mouldered and upon which streams Of wa
ter were kept playing from several fire en-
gines all day, Upon the platform on the
south side of the canal the ruin is complete
except AS to the Washburn Mill b, which
stands slight distance from the Others on
the other side The walls Of the Petit and
Robinson mill remain standing, while Pail
sadie mill, at little distance, escaped by a
singular
FREAK OF TIE FLAMES.
The mills destroyed had the following
run of stones each Washburn 4, Al: Pet
it & Robinson, 10 Galaxy, ~; Zenith, g.
Hennepin. 6 Humboldt, 6; total, So. Be.
sides these there was destroyed Petit & Rob-
sons lumber yard with 100000 feet of
lumber.
The loss to the surrounding buildings by
the shock of the explosion is material,
The round house Of the Chicago, Milwau-
kce & st, Paul railroad was blown down by
the force of the conclusion. There was an
insurance of $500 on the building The
total loss is now estimated at Sl,0SC000,
which may be increased.
A STARCH FOR THE DEAD.
has progressed all day as fast as the fire
could be eXtinguished and the ruins cooled.
Up to II o'clock this morning the black and
unrecognizable remains Of seven of the I'M
fortunate victims of the Washburn Mill had
been recovered These were carefully COW
cred and carried to the machine shops of
the Milwaukee and st. Paul and deposited
on the floor at the southern end of the
building, while crowd of anxious relatives
were waiting to identify the lost. The ap,
pearancc Of the bodies or what remain Il
in the shape of charred bodies or little heaps
of black ashes which emitted sickcn'
odor, will never be forgotten by any of c
spectators. But one body bore any sen
blance to the human form, and even this
was horribly distorted, with head, aims and
legs burned to "A crisp or removed, and the
tank partially eaten away by the action OF
THE TERRIFIC HEAT.
This is believed to be that of John Bower
Smaller Fragments of bodies were range,
in close proximity to the larger trunk
above described, until seven were deposteC
all together, one of which was brought ii
on an elevator bucket. The search wa
industriously continued all through the
! 90, 90 . II,
dead, based upon the bodies recovered
those known to be in the mill and inquire,
for the missing, place it at sixteen, of which
the following is list:
IN TIE wAsHBURS MILL.
Chas Henning: August Smith; Clark
WILDER and Fred Miller, grinders; VIM
Leslics and Cyrus Ewing, oilers; o. G.. SHE
Walter Savage; Patrick Judd and Ed
Merrill, machine men; Harry Hicks and +
W. Burbank, watchmen; Chas. Kimblc in
the Diamond mill; John Boyer, in the
Zenith mill; John Z. Rosienncs, in the
Humboldt mill; Peter llolbcrg.
The smaller casualties, burns, bruises and
wounds are numerous, and further develop
ments may increase or decrease the. num-
Der OF dead. 1t is not likely that all the
bodies will be recovered from the iunS
Nearly all of those now recovered are mere
mutilated fragments.
ANOTHER MILL DESTROYED.
SPARTA, Wis, May 4,-McKcnzic and
Taylor's large Touring mill, two miles north
of this place, was totally destroyed by fire
this morning cstima'' ID loss, SlS,0OO in
sured in the British for $4,000 Phoenix, Of
Brooklyn, $4,000; German, $500; Home
of New York, $500; Lycoming, $4,000
The fire is supposed to have been caused by
friction in the machinery.