Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-04
THE FORCE OF STEAM.
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II PUpels the Ocean Vessel, IL Runs the
Iron Horse, But IL Also Destroys
Human Life,
Four Persons Killed and Several Others
Wounded by . Terrific Boiler Ex'
ploulon at Galveston,
A Gigantic Boiler Sent Whissing Among
the Houses, Leaving Destruction
in It's Wake.
Heartrendipg Scenes her the Explosion
One Body Blown Three Hundred
aud Twenty-Five Feet,



bic catastrophe occurred In this city at
half.past seven o'clock this morning.
One OF the boilers OF the fremont
hotel exploded, instantly killing forr
persons, wounding several others aud
doing great damage to tho hotel and
neighboring property. The killed are
as follows;
THOMAS Cross, engineer, leaves n
wife and several children,
LAWRENCE CAM, fireman, leaves
family.
CLARA MILLER, n white woman,
and
ANDERSON JoNFs. colored scrub.
Der.
The following were wounded
JOSE AQu1LLo, pastry cook, badly
bruised and injured Internally.
JonN AMMAN, bell boy, shoulder
broken, otherwise injured.
| MAURICE SULLIVAN, collar hone
broken, badly cut about the head.
Il. WALTON, colored walter, arm
broken, badly bruised.
MRs BURNS, a line woman, slightly
bruised about the head.
The cOncussion from the explosion
was appalling. The fremont house
IL large fivo-story brick structure
with 1870 feet frontage on fremont
street and about the same depth on
Church street. The Carter house was
situated nc the northwest corner OF the
building 1t was n small one.story
brick structure attached to the main
building. The explosion
SHOOK THE dREAT BUILDING
with such terrible force that the
guests thought Tremendous earth
quake had occurred and ran
panlc.strioken about the railways.
The scene OF the calamity presented u
horrible spectacle. Not one brick OF
the boiler house remains upon another
In its place. Scattered about for half
"a square lies the debris of the building,
engine, pumps and boilers. The
north west wing OF the house above the
boiler house Is
BADLY WRECKED.
TIE walls are cracked and the win.
dows are demolished, Fortunately
but few guests were quariered In this
portion OF the building, There were
two horizontal tubular boilers, each Of
sixty horse power Attached 10 the hotel,
only one OF which was being used AT
the time Of the explosion. Both boil,
ers were new. They were manufac.
iured In st. Louis and were set up last
Octobcr As the huge monster left
its bed
IN HHO1 AWAY
from the main structure. Passing out
ofthe engine'houte, end first, II crossed
the Intervening yard, passed through
n two-story frame building where the
servants slept, then crossed Twenty
fourth street, passing entirely over
story and a.half frame building front
Ing TweDty-founh street, and then
crashed through the roof Of a small
frame house occupied by colored
family, who escaped uDhurt. Con.
tinuing onward II entered y onestory
house 0fIIlgepute, kept by u colored
woman. Julia Winters. This house
WAS PRACTICALLY AHRIHILATRp.
Not one stick was left standing. II
was here that Clara Miller, the white
woman, was killed. and Maurice Sui.
Ivan, her companion, fatally injured.
Every colored occupant Of the house
escaped unipJured. After causing this
destruction the giant missile finally
landed inside Of an adjoining small
structure, prolruding half inside the
house and half out.
VARIOUS THEORIES ARE AgLoAT
regarding the caupe 81 the accident
The engineers who examined the
wreck generally agree that the boiler
was defective, that its studs were
not sufficiently tapped over
and welded into the nian.head.
II Is believed that tbs steam
guage did not register sixty pounds az
the time ofthe disaster, whereas the
boiler was supposed 10 he able TO sns-
tain 200 pounds, but In the absence Of
heavy bolts sustaining the manheads
Of the boller, !, proved unable TO besr
HALF ~ ms suPPosgD PRESSURE,
The damage and loss to the hotel
building will reach SO 900 insured
against fire. The hotel II owned by
Col. w. u. Hughes Of Dallas. The
body Of Carr, tho fireman. was blown