St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-04
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
An Explosion of the Badly-Made Boiler in
the fremont Hotel, Galveston, Tex,
Creates Great Havoc.
Four Men and Several Children Killed, and
Five Persons Now Suffering With
Broken Bones.
A Corrected Casualty List of the New
York Tenement Fire Shows 8
Killed and i 4 Injured.
Flames of u Supposed Incendiary
Origin Nearly Wipe Out the
Town of Cabery, Ill.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.


GALVESTON, Tex, May 3.-A terrible
catastrophe occurred in this city at 7:30 this
morning, one of the boilers at the fremont
hotel exploding, instantly killing number
of persons and wounding several others,
and doing great damage to the hotel and
neighboring property. The killed are:
LAWRENCE CARR, the fireman.
CLARA MILLER, white woman.
ANDERSON JONES, colored.
A. S. CRIBBER, colored.
Several children were also killed. Carr
leaves family.
The wounded were:
JOSE A. GRILLA, pastry cook, badly
bruised and injured internally.
JOHN AMMAN, bell boy, shoulder
broken and otherwise injured
MAURICE SULLIVAN, collar bone
broken and badly cut about the head.
r. WALTON, colored waiter, arm
broken and badly bruised.
MRS. BURNS, linen woman, slightly
bruised about the head.
The conclusion from the explosion was
appalling The fremont house is a
large, tive-story structure. with 130
feet frontage on fremont street and about
the same depth on Church street. The
boiler house was situated at the northwest
corner of the building, and was small one
story brick attached to the main structure.
The explosion shook the great building with
such terrible force that the guests thought a
tremendous earthquake had occurred and
ran panic-Stricken about the hall. The scene
of the calamity presents
A DREARY SPECTACLE,
and not one brick of the boiler house re-
mains upon another, but in it's place, scat
tered about for half square, lies the debris
of the building, engine, pumps and boilers.
The northwest wing OF the hotel, above the
boiler house, was badly wrecked, the wall
being cracked and the windows demolished
Fortunately but few guests were quartered
in this portion of the building. There were
two horizontal tubular boilers, each of sixty
horse power attached to the hotel, only one
of which was being used at the time of the
explosion. Both were new and were man
ufactured in St. Louis. They had
been set up only last October
AS the huge monster left its bed
it shot away from the main structure, pass
ing out of the engine house end first
crossed an intervening yard, passed through
a two-story frame building where the ser
wants slept, then crossed Twenty-fourth
street,
PASSING ENTIRELY OVER
story and half frame house fronting
Twenty-fourth street, then crashed through
the roof of small frame house occupied by
colored family, who escaped unhurt, and
continuing onward it entered a one-story
house of ill-repute kept by colored woman.
This house was completely annihilated, not
one stick being left standing. 1t
was here that Clara Miller, the
white woman, was killed, and Maurice
Sullivan, her companion, fatally injured.
Every colored occupant of the house es-
capped uninjuIed.
After causing this destruction, the giant
missile finally landed inside of an adjoining
small structure, protruding half inside the
house and half out. The explosion is said
to have been the result of insufficient lap
ping of its tubes, so the manheads were de-
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