The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-30
DEATH AND DAMAGE.
A SAVANNAH BOARDING HOUSE MYS-
TERlOUSLY BLOWN UP.


Mancled Amid the Debris of tho Falling
Buildins-Three Are Taken Out Dead
the Others Seriously Injured.
SAVANNAH, Ca, July 24.-W' J. Bull
lard's boarding house, a three-story
brick dwelling, No. 2O3 Congress street
was blown up at 20 o'clock this morn
ing. Three persons were killed and six
injured; two of them will probably die
There were thirteen persons in the
house. The explosion shattered the
walls, which collapsed and fell in a
mass of ruins. Most of the occupants
of the house were asleep and were
hurled from their beds, and either
buried under the falling debris OF
thrown on top Of it.
The killed are Mrs. W. J. Bullard
Lockley and Gus Robbies. The wound.
ed are John Roborts, right ankle frac-
tured and concussion of the brain from
the shock; l.. J. Tate. confusion of the
face and chest; Melton Haywood, col
ored, shoulder dislocated and bruised;
Edward A. Remes, slightly bruised:
Mrs. Edward S. Everitt, slightly
bruised; Sam King, colored, badly in
jured about the body.
The first taken from the building
was L. J. Tate, collector for the Cltl-
zens' Bank, who was sleeping on the
second floor and was pinned down by
the fallen timhers. A few minutes
later the mangled body of Mrs. Bull
lard was found eight feet under a pile
of bricks beneath the room where she
was sleeping. Robbie's body was taken
out at 8 O'clock, and was laid in Franklin
Square on mattress. Robbies came
here from New York about month
ago, and was engaged by McDonough
& Co., as scroll man. He slept in the
front hall room, on the second floor
and was found under the sheet on the
bed where he had evidently been kill
ed as he slept. He has wife in New
York, from whom he received a letter
a day or two ago. He was about 4s
years old.
The body of Lockley was found about
4 o'clock. 1t was the last taken out OF
the building.
J. A. Remes, who was sleeping in the
front room on third floor with Roberts
was hurled to the second floor and was
pinned between the bed and the floor
until he was pulled out by the fremen
He did not see Roberts after the explo,
sion occurred. The first he heard was
grinding noise, and then came the
crash and then a blank. The next he
knew he was being taken out from the
debris. He was slightly bruised.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everitt, who were
sleeping in the front room on the sec
ond floor, were pulled out from under
the ceiling above which held them fast
Mrs. John Paige and baby, who were
sleeping in the room back of Mr.. and
Mrs. Everitt, escaped unhurt and were
lifted out by the fremen.
AS fast as the injured people were
taken out they were carried into the
rear of Andrew Jackson's residence
lust East of the fallen building.
Jack Roberts, who slept with j. a
Remes on the third floor, sustained Sc
we're injuries about the body and head
Mr.. Bullard, who was sleeping with
his wife, had q marvellous escape ano
received but few slight bruises. Mrs
Bullard was dead when taken out. She
was fearfully crushed.
The cause of the explosion is a mys
terry. There are many rumors of ar
ugly nature, but nobody will take the
responsibility of making direct state
ment. One man insinuated that there
had been row in the house toward
the end of a jollifcation, in which the
inmates had been indulging. Lamp:
were used instead of gas, and it is sale
that there was no meter in the house
though it was supplied with gas
pipes throughout. Most of the people
therefore, are unable to seehow the ex
plosion could have been caused by gas
The fallen building was three-story
tenement, built on the French fai
style, and faces North and South, the
two top floors being used as sleeping
apartments. The explosion blew the
entire building to the Northward, some
of the furniture being blown acros:
Julian street into splinters, while tht
flying bricks went as far as Bay street
the entire structure collapsing outward
on Congress street.