The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-11-05
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION,
DISASTROUS RESULTS OF THE COL.
LAPSE OF A BOILER.

One Man Killed, Several Injured and a
Half Million Dollars Worth OF Proper.
ty Destroyed.
LOUISVILLE, Xxx, Oct. 2G.-I}y boil.
er explosion here this afternoon one
man was killed, several persons injured
and nearly half Il million dollars worth
OF property destroyed. At 6 o'clock
William Il. Adams, fireman at the
electric light plant Of the Louisville
Gas Company, was throwing coal In
the furnace when one of nest of seven
boilers burst. The shock in the yicin.
ltf was Ike an earthquake. Adams
was thrown to the ground with terrific
lorce, and received such internal iniur.
les that he will die.
lue shed in which the boilers were
located was completely demolished and
pieces OF iron and Of timber and show
er5 OF reu-hot Goals were thrown in
every dlrcctlon. \ great mass of iron
anu deluge of burning Goals were
thrown across the narrow alley into the
rear OF Kaufman & Straits big retail
dry goods store, and the wall of the
store was carried away. Half a dozen
| clerks were gathered about the book.
Keeper, Sol Dreyfus, at the back Of the
store. Ali were caught in the wreck
age, but 1t is believed all escaped alive.
| Dfey1uS was seriously injured but not
| dangerously, Carrie Dinkelspeit, Hattie
itnhlS and Lena Sickles were slightly
| injured.
In Il moment apparently the whole
building was in flames. The weather
has been very dry for two weeks and
IN" NrcckaSo and goods burned like
| tindcl.
! IN alarm was turned in from the au.
| loinatlc fire alarm box in the Courier.
journal building and the department
was quickly at work. The fire in the
| "frckcd building was at once beyond
control and attention was turned to
saving the Courler-.Journal building,
| IWo U"orS north. and the Polytechnic
l.lbrAry building, two numbers south.
y water tower was manned and the
nose IN the Courier-JOurnal building
were attached and turned through the
Siue ana rear of the building, and four
| tecn !irc engines were put in position
anu set TO PLAYING upon the flames.
| WIN all this force it was half an hour
| before the flames gave way and an hour
nelore they were under control. At
one time it seemed that the Courier
Journal would certainly be burned.
A'S itH III iillbClS NlO WCEc Ill Cno CONF
II posing room left and the reporters and
editors who were on duty gathered
their NaluableS and prepared to escape.
most or them actually leaving. But
tne WIND was from the north and car
rleu the heat in the opposite direction.
by strenuous efforts the Polytechnic
building, on the south, was saved with
heavy damage by water to the books,
pictures and other art collections. The
iIre caught and burned out the two up.
per floors of j. V. Escott IL Sons, deal.
crS IN pictures, fine mirrors, wall paper
and photographers supplies, and the
two lower floors were Hooded with wa.
ter till hardly anything was saved. On
the south CrerOne's confectionery and
IorterS millinery store were slightly
damaged.
The principal losses are nearly as can
now be learned is about as follows:
kaufman ~ Strauss, retail dry goods.
STOCK $4,000, nearly covered by insur.
aHc"; l'amberger Bloom 81 Co, owners
OF building, SSSO,OO0. insured; J. v. Es-
c0tt x Sons, fine wood work and sup
pheS, S3OlUO, insured; Polytechnic Ii
nrary, building, books, etc, $1,000, part.
~ insured; Louisville Gas Company,
$1,000, covered by insurance.
ms evening the miners decided to
eau OUT al the laen in the district.
ImS Will include one thousand men
working at the advance.
John Mattel, with his wife and in.
1ant child. applied to the authorities TO-
night FOR iOod. lie said he was a strik-
ing miner ard they had walked from
Conncllayille here having tasted moth.
ING, for nearly forty light hours. The
mother was too weak to suckle her babe,
aEd, 10 save the little ones life Mattel
said he cut his finger and allowed the
cilId to drink his blood. The couple
were terribly emaciated, and the child
was almost dead. Food and lodgings
We're furnished them. Mattel tells an
aWl"l story OF privation and suffering
among the miners.