The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-16
EXPLOSION AND PANIC.
An Explosion i'm a Cigar Box
Factory Causes a Panic and a
COnfiagratiOn.
Many Persons Injured, the Works
.DestrOyed-But One
Killed Outright.

Philadelphia, Nov. 1l.-An explosion
occurred in the cigar-box manufactorv of
H. II. Sheip d Co, Nos. 1904 and l706
Randolph street this evening, which blew
out the rear wall, badly injuring a number
of young men, women and girls and i'm
periling the lives of over 100 more. The
mandatory is three story brick struct-
ure with depth of $50 feet. At the back
are located a number of sheds for storing
lumber used in tine manufacture of cigar
boxes The first and second floors were
used as planning mill and carpenter shop
and on the third foor were employed about
twenty-five girls in FASTING paper Innings
in the boxes. Just before the explosion
the engineer started up stem by throwing
a large amount of
SAW DUST on THE FIRE
under the boiler from she saw dust bin
which was located a short distance of and
then ,tarted TO the Randolph street front
OF the building. He states that he ad
been there but few minutes when he was
startled by the report ola loud noise which
was followed by the upper portion of the
rear wall falling ont ana the screams of
the women in the upper story. Brick,
were flying in all direction and in less than
a minute afte wards the whole rear por-
ton of The mill appeared to be in flames
THE GREATEST EXCITEMENT
existed among the hands employed in the
building femal,s S, some of them
ran Tor the stairway leading to the street,
while others ran to the windows and few
started to eli NIB out but they wee proven :
Ell from jumping to the ground by their
companions. During all this time the
fames we're spreading from one floor to
another and crowds attracted by the smoke
| and screams of the women blocked the
street, but the excitement among them was
so great that thy appeared powerless, for a
time, TO assist them. Finally several men
ran into the building and
SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THEM ALL OUT.
The excitement among the people was in
creased when the girls and young women
appeared in the street, some bleeding and
stubbornly despite the efforts of the
Il emen to check the flames, and in
a remarkably short period, owing
to the infawmable charcter of the con-
I nts, the two upper stories of the factory
and the shedding in the rear We're ablaze.
One girl, Carrie Bruner, aged Is is missing
Following is the list of
THE INJURED.
Ella Stocker, agei 81, badly injured
about face and hands.
Carrie Muller, aged Is, burned about
! the body.
Emma Muller, aged 16, barned about
Mary ]. Knecht, aged Is, face and body
burned.
Amanda Cook, aged 10, burned about
the face, hack and hands
John Pollock, II years, injured about
the head by falling bricks.
Joseph Reehiemer, IL years, hands bad
~ burned.
john KIei:getlrofer, 81 years, head cut
and hands injured.
George Kimball, 10 years, head and face
cut.
Daniel Freis head and face burned and
arm cut.
The fire was not gotten under control
until it had destroyed almost the entire
building The livery stables of J. NJ
Tully and A. Cresswell, adjoining the
rear of the cigar box factory
were blown out by the force
of the explosion. In Tully's place
some fifty sleighs aud carriages were crush
ed 10 atoms and number of carriages were
ruined. In CresswelPs building about two
hours after the fire had been extinsuished
THE BODY OF CARRY BRUNER
aged thirty years, an employee, was found
in the third story of the factory buried un
der the steam pipes and heavy timbers.
The body and clothing were but Slightly
burned and her death was in all probabil-
ity caused by the heavy timbers falling
upon her when the explosion occurred.