Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-25
TERRIBLE CALAMITY
An Explosion of Natural Gas
 Wrecks d Building.
SEVERAL KILLED AND INJURED.
A Runaway Fire Dsparim-nt Team Adds
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Spectators at a supposed Fro tho Suf- ferars- Panic in tho Crowd-The Ground Saturated With Treacherous FIuid-Ke- Killed and Injured.
 COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 25.-At o'clock last evening an alarm of fire sounded, calling out the entire department. The streets were thronged with the thou sands of toilerS who were returning to thelr homes from work-shops and fac tories, and quickly spread the news that a frightful calamity had happened in the southern part of tho city. Tho streets leading to that section were soon crowded with people going to the scene. lnelr presence there heaped horror upon horror as will be seen Ia ter on.
 \ Terrible Explosion.
 An explosion had occurred at the double residence of McSsrs. Michael Bowers and J, an Marriot, at the cor ner of Wall and Noble alleys. The cause of the ca amity was an accumu- lation of natu al gas ill the cellar of the house ref rred to. The city has recently been supplied with natural gas and leading past the house occu- pied by Marrioo and Bowers, is one of the mains through which the commod- ity is furnished to the public. The pipes had leaked and the explosive fuel had found its pay through Assures in the ground to the cellar which was the seat of the horror
 It became ignited in some unknown manner and exploded with terrific force, wrecking tho building and filling the air with debris. Mrs. Marriott was blown out of the house, and a man named Goulding, who was standing near the structure, was blown across the street.
 Iu Death Trap
 Mrs. Marriott was carried across tn street and into the residence of Will liam James, a boollk eeper for the firm of Clock X Beck. Dr. Wissinger, a prominent physician, was called to at tend her injuries. The house where the injured lady lay was soon crowded with people attracted by the accident, and 1t was soon necessary to cloSo the doors that no more might enter Little knew those scores of spectators hud dled around the sufferer that they were standing in death trap, which was then on the verge ot carrying them into eternity. Suddenly the air was rent by a thunderous explosion which made the earth quake and filled the air with fly timbers. bricks and debris of all kinds. Darkness ensued and then death-like stiffness reigned for a flow moments. It was broken by shriells and death groans. The house in which lay the powerless form of Mrs. Marriott had been blown to atoms and it's occupants buried beneath the wreck.
 Anot',er Disaster.
 sidewalks were knocked violently down by the shock and laid powerless hen. to cap the climax, Il team of spirited horses attached to one of the fire department ladder trucks, became frenzled by the explosion and dashed away into the crowd, carrying death in their wake. They ran over and in lured scores of people. A beautiful lit tlo babe was knocked from it's mother's arms and falling beneath the mcrcilcss wheels of tho vehicle, was crushed to death.
 A RevoltInE Scene.
 As soon as the maddened steeds had disappeared in the darkness, many of the spectators and tiremen, who had been uninjured by either of the horrors turned their attention to digging out the persons buried beneath the ruins of tho houses. Guided by the cries and moans of the mangled and dying, mon groped in the darkness, pulling out a dead body here, a mangled. yet living form, there, and conveying them to resting places. Groups of men, women and children gathered around the pros trated forms. and blood curdling shrieks made the awful scene moro TO- volting, as friends recognized friends injured or dead, parents found their mutilated children and vice versa. It required several hours to remove all the dead and in iured from the ruins and 1t is not yet known who or how many are the victims. Following is the
 List of the Killed.
 Charles Becht James Seymour, Mrs. J, Marriott. Unknown man, Charles Berry, Unknown babe.
 Tic Injured.
 T. K. Wissinger, Edward Wiener, Herman Baker, A. Wolf,
 Daniel Cherry. Miss Belle Smith. Charles Woodruff, Mrs. Corn.
 Mrs. Fully. Peter Marriott. Patrick Suisllie, Tom Doyle, Aaron Beenes, Emma Dowers, Benjamin Morgan. Marshal kilbourne, Charles Lowry, William Brady, Albert Ticklider, William James, c. Brady, Mrs. w. James.
 Iron Work sroporty Sold.
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