Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-27
A HEAVY LOSS.
A BOILER EXPLODES IN LOUIS
VILE, DOING GREAT DAMAGE.
Fire Caused by 1t Which Destroys Some
thing Like 100000 of Property-The
Courier-JoUrnal Narrowly Escapes.

LOUISVILLE. KY. Oct 2G.-By a boiler
explosion this afternoon one man was
killed, several persons injured and near
500, 100 worth of property destroyed.
At O'Clock w. VI. X. Adams, :: fireman
at the electric lighS plant of the Louisville
gas company, was throwing coal in the fur
race when one of the nest of seven
vicinity was like an earthquake
Adams was thrown to the ground with
terrific force and received such internal in
1urieS that he will die. The shed in which
the boilers were located was completely de-
molished, and pieces of iron and tmbers and
showers of red hot Goals were thrown in
every direction. A great mass of iron
ana dcluge OF burning Goals was thrown
across the narrow alley into the rear of
kaufman n Strauss big retail dry goods
store, and the wall of the store was carried
away. Half 4 dozen clerks were gathered
about the bookkceper at the back of the
store. With Bookkeeper Solomon Dryfus
they We're caught in the wreckace, but it is
believed all escaped alive. Dryfus was
severely injured, but not dangerously.
Carrie DinkelSpeil, Hattie Evans and
Lena Sichles were Slightly injured.
in n moment apparently the whole
building was i'll flames. The weather has
been very dry for two weeks, and the
wreckage and goods burned like finder.
AN dlstlLi WAS ,Itutti III IRON Tue
fire box in the Courier-Journal building and
the department was quickly 1t work. The
fire was At once beyond control. Attention
was turned to saving the Courier-Journal
building, two doors north, and the Polytech-
mic library building, two numbers south.
The water tower was manned and the hose
in the Courier-Joucnal building was
attached and turned through the
side and rear of the building and
fourteen fire engines put in position and set
10 playing upon the flames. With all this
force ii was half IN hour before the flames
gave way and an hour before they were I'M
der control The fire caught and
burned out the two upper floors of J. '. e.
Scott X Sons dealers in pictures, fine mir
rors, wall paper. photographers supplies,
and the Two lower floors were flooded with
water till hardly anything was saved.
On the south, Levrone'S confectionery
aud 4. S Porter'S millinery store were
slightly damaged The losses are, as nearly
as can nov be learned, about Us follows:
Kaufman. Straus & Co, retail dry
goods, stock 100000; nearly covered by in
sUraace.
Bamberger. Bloom & Co, owners of
building, $4,000: insured
J. Y. Scott 4 Sons, fine woodwork and
supplies. $4,000; insured.
Polytechnic library building, books, etc,
$4,000: partly insured.
Louisville gas company $500, covered by
insurance.
Levrone confectionery $500. insured.
w NJ W!lsher, the engineer of the cleo
trio light boilers. was with Curt Dawson
dynamo tender, in 4 room adjoining the
boilers, and they barely escaped.
He says he had on only 100 pounds of
steam, while he was allowed l20 pounds
He thinks some part of the boiler was dis
placed by the heavy work it was doing and
the explosion resulted from it.