Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-01-22

Inter Accounts Reduce the Number
OF Killed and Injured-PrOperty
Loss Put at Twenty Thousand Dol
lars.
Sioux City journal.
An explosion Of lard tank in j. E.
Booge & Co.'s pork packing house oe.
Cured few minutes after O'Clock yes.
terday morning. The corner of the main
building, which was leveled to the
ground, was four stories high above
basement. and SO by 80 feet on the
ground. It was the workshop Of the
whole establishment. containing the kill.
ing, scalding, cleaning and rendering
departments. There were killed in the
wreck:
John Farrell.
Joseph French.
John Kellar.
The seriously hurt are:
James Broner.
Louis Faulk.
VIM. Wallace.
The more slightly injured are:
Harry Ellsworth.
John Tillotson.
Ben Dagle.
Charles Udell.I
Joseph Fairhead.
John Elsner.
The loss on building, machinery and
stock, ]. E. Booge, head of the firm. says.
will not exceed $4,000. The full in.
surance on FIRE carried BY the firm does
not apply to this disaster. The accident
throws over 200 men and boys
part m q Of ' the building vii viii "te'>re be re-.
placed as soon as brick can be laid with
out the mortar freezing. and not until
then. The accident ends pork packing
in ,;;I Sioux City for this season.
town, and was known all over the city in
an increditably short time. A reporter
who went down found several hundred
citizens already collected about the
ruins. A steady stream of people con.
tinued to come during the day, mon,
women and children, drawn by the COM
mon desire to see the horrible and des.
tructive sight. The part blown down
was rectangular block, SO feet vide by
90 long, partly four and partly five
stories high. This great corner was
leveled almost to the ground. none of
the outer walls rising above the base.
ment story. The walls had fallen out
letting the roof, floors. timbers, machin-
cry, lard tanks and debris of every kind
in wild tapgle in the interior. Look.
ing at this it was surprise that any
who had gone down in that wreck n the
scaldinR steam and boiling lard, had
escaped alive. Back of this high part oi
the wreck was the fertilizer room, one
story affair about fifty feet square. Thii
was also total wreck. The boiler room
beside this room, aud of the same size
had its walls badly shattered about the
top.
The part OF the main building blowr
down by the explosion is the southeas
quarter. Walls which separated the
main building into sections made til,
boundaries OF the wreck on these side
we'll defined. The tank which exploded
was the second from the corner.
There are, or were, six of these tai
lard tanks extending from below IT,,
ceiling of the second story ab, ~ IL
floor of the fourth story. Tire, So
used for rendering the clean lar,'
from the hog carcasses aud til. az
three for dirty lard. dead hogs, sn.
such other refuse. The tanks wer.
air tight. and after being fille.
with leaf lard or whatever
was that was being rendered, etean
was turned on from the boilels. An au
tomato guage prevented the pressur
in the lard tank from exceeding forty
five pounds 10 the inch. II tho boiler
gave more than that it Was blown of
/ and did not go into the tank. There
yet no satisfactory theory Of the exple
sion.
As nearly as, diligent inquiry woul
chow the only men IN the wrecked pal
Of the building when the explosion OK
cutred, we're those whose names hav
'tbeen given % dead and wounde: