The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-04
TERROR AT THE FREMONT.
The Boiler of the Big Hotel at Gal.
weston ExplOdes
AND DEALS OUT oEArHANo RUIN
Four People Killed and Several
Others Injured.
A NEGRO eAGNlo TsLEsoopED
And White Man and Woman Slaughter
ed by the Massive Missiie--Details
of the Disaster TenemeDt
Horror in New York.
a NEGRO eAeNlo TsLgsoopED
FIRES AND OTHER cALAMlrlEs.
Explosion at abe fremont Hotel,
Galveston,

Terrible Explosion at the fremont Hotel,
Galveston.
GALVESTON, May ga terrible oatas
trophe occurred in this city at $50
o'clock this morning. One OF the boil
ers at the fremont hotel exploded, in.
stantly killing four persons, wounding
several others and doing great damage
to the hotel and neighboiing property.
THE KILLED
Ihomas Cross, engineer; leaves a
vile and several children.
Lawrence Carr, fireman; leaves a
family.
Clara Miller, a white woman.
Anderson Jones, a colored scrubber.
THE WOUNDED,
jose Aquillo, pastry cook; badly
bruised and injured Internally.
John Axman, bell-boy; shoulder
broken and otherwise injured.
Maurice Sullivan, collar bone broken
ana badly injured about the head.
IL. Waller, colored waiter; arm broken
and badly bruised.
Mrs. Burns, linen woman; slightly
bruised about the head.
The concussion from the explosion
was appalling. The fremont house is a
large five-stOry brick structure OF ma
feet frontage on fremont street and
about the same depth en- Church street.
Inc boiler house was situated at the
northwest corner of the building, and
was y small one.story brick structure
attached to the main building. The ok.
plosion shook the great building
with such terrible iorce that the
guests thought tremendous
earthquake had occurred and ran panic
stricken about the halls. The scene of
the calamity presents drearv spects.
ole' Not one brick of the boiler house
remains upon another, but In its place.
scattered about for half a square, lies
the debris Of the building, the englae,
the pumps and the boiler. The north
west wing OF the hotel above
the boiler house Is badly wrecked, the
walls cracked and windows demolishe,
fortunately but few guests were uu
tered in this part of the building, Thsr
were two horizontal tubular boilers,
each 6O-horse power, attached 10 the ho.
tel, only one OF which WAS being used Al
the time OF the explosion. Both boilers
were new, manufactured in 81. Louis
and were set up last October. As The
huge monster left IL, bed 1t shot away
from the main structure, passing out the
engine house end first, crossed an inter
Vening yard, passed through two.
story frame building where the sery
ans slept; then crossed TwOuty-fourth
street, passing entirely over u story
and.a'half frame house fronting
on Twenty-fourth street; then crashed
through the roof of small frame house
occupied by colored family who es.
capped unhuTt. Continuing onward il
entered a one-story house OF III repute,
owned BY a colored woman, Julia win,
ters, This house was practically
annnihilated. Not one sticK was
left standing. IL was here
that Clara Miller, tho white
woman, was killed, and Maurice Sulll.
van, her companion, fatally Injured,
Every colored occupant of the house
escaped uninjured. After causing this
destruction, the giant missile finally
landed Inside of an adjoining small
structure, .protrudlng half inside the
house ana half out.
VARIOUS THEORIES
are anoat in regard w. TO the cause of the
accident Engineers who examined the
wreck generally agree that the boiler
was deteotiyoi that its tubes were not
suhciontly Tapped over and welded into
the manhead. IL is thought the steam
gauge didn't register ovor 60 pounds M
the time of the disaster, whereas the
boiler was supposed To be able 10 sus-
tain 200 pounds, but in the absepce
of heavy bolts sustaining the
manhead, the boiler, Il rs
proved, was unable TO bear half its sup.
posed pressure.
The damage and loss TO the building
will reach $4,000; insured against fre.
The hotel is owned by Col. w, IL,
Hughes, of Dallas.
The body OF Carr, tho fireman, was
blown over one wing OF the hotel, land
ing In the court. A coroner's Jury was
summoned, viewed the remains aud ad-
Journod until tomorrow. Thousands
vi people visited the scene this after.
noon and clamorod about the neighbor.
ing undertaker's establishments, wait
ing view ofthe mangled bodies.