New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-29

rending, as mothers, wives, and children
came wildly in search Of lost ones. Several
priests from an adjoining chapel directed
the people what to do. About hundred at
once set to work removing the debris, in or
der to. extricate the sufferers if possible.
This was attended with great risk and
difficulty, and at one time fire broke out.
The arrival of the fire brigade, however, put
an end to all fears of that Kind. Both the
people and the fremen worked with great
courage and energy. The lord mayor and a
large force of police arrived twenty minutes
after the explosion. The police found great
difficulty in restraining the relatives, and
when the first mutilated body was recovered
the excitement was intense. The remains
were SO blackened and bruised that
they could not at first be identi-
fed, and as they were driven away
Q the hospital q large number of people
rushed after them. These scenes were re-
peated as body after body was brought to
the surface. The narrowness of the thorough
fare greatly impeded the work. The crowds
were in great danger, owing to the tottering
state of the adjoining buildings, and it was
found necessary to send for soldiers to assist
the police. detachment of the 73d High
landers quickly responded to the summons
of the lord mayor, and they rapidly set to
work on the ruins with hatchets and pick
axes. Several workers were injured by fall
ing materials, and others were overcome by
their exertions and the sufocating clouds of
lime. Others quickly took their places,
cheered on by the spectators. Several hours
elapsed before the victims were reached, and
it was not until late in the evening that
what was supposed to be the last body had
been recovered. Many of them were in a
frightful condition, and some of them, al
though alive when the work of excavation
began, and able to cry for help, were dead
before they could be recovered. In
the case of one poor man, he was partially
extricated alive and the men were busily at
work trying to extricate the lower part of
his body when they were obliged to desist,
owing to the falling of wall beneath the
ruins of which the poor. fellow was buried !;
the owner of the public house, person
named Duffy, and his daughter were killed
The latter was taken out alive, but died soon
afterward. -Four others we're dead when dis
covered. A large number are in the hospital
suffering from broken limbs, fractured ribs,
etc. It is feared the wounds, in several
cases, will prove fatal. The partition wall
of the adjoining house was blown away,
leaving all the apartments exposed. There
we're several persons in the rooms, and, as
the staircase was carried away, they were
rescued with great difficulty. Some of them
were injured, and one fell with the wall.
There were several persons drinking in the
public-house when the explosion occurred.
Five more dead bodies were recovered to-
day, making thirteen in all, and three per
sons are still missing, and are supposed to
be in the ruins. Ten are in hospital, eight
of whom are SO seriously injured that they
are not expected to recover. The total num-
Der of killed and injured is about fifty. Ex-
cavating parties worked all last night, and
to-day the district is in great state of ex-
element, most of the people have remained
up all night. The priests rendered much
service in directing the relief parties. AS the
excavators came upon one of the unfortunate
men he could only be reached through a
hole, and through this aperture the priest
put his hand and anointed him. DR.. O'Leary,
M. F., who was present, also administered
some whisky. The man was subsequently
got out alive, and none the worse save for
the fright. He turned out to be Mr.. Duff's
cellar-man, and was in the cellar at the time,
and was only reached by making hole in
the wall of an adjoining house. His few
hours confinement made him look almost
twice his real age.