The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-27
EXPLOSION AND A BLAZE.
1.oUIsvILLE'S COURIER JOURNAL
HAS A CLOSE CALL.

One Man Killed, Several Persons In
mred and 100000 Worth of Prop
srtv Destroyed - A Boiler Bursts
with Terrific Force and Sets the
Carnival of Destruction In Motion.
IouIsvILLE, KY, Oct. 26.-By a boiler
o1n;osion here this afternoon one man was
KILLED. several persons injured, and nearly
half million dollars worth of property
destroyed. At o'clock, William R.
Adams. a fireman at the electric light plant
of the Louisville Gas Company, was throw
ing coal in the furnace whom one
Of nest Of seven boilers let go.
The shock in the vicinity was
like an earthquake. Adams was thrown
70 the ground with terrific force and re-
ceived such Internal injuries that he will
die. The shed in which the boilers were
located was completely demolished and
pieces Of iron ana timber and showers of
red.hot Goals were thrown in every direc-
Lon.
DRY GOODS STORE WRECKED.
great mass OF iron and deluge of
burning Goals was thrown across the narrow
alley into the rear of Kaufman & Strauss
big retail dry goods store and the wall of
the store was carried away. Half a dozen
clerks we're gathered about the oFkeeper
at the back Of the store. With Bookkeeper
Solomon Dreyfus, they were caught in the
wreckage, but it is believed that all escaped
alive, Dreyfus was seriously injured, but
not dangerously. Carrie Dinkelspiel, Hat
tie Ennis and Lena Sickles were slightly in
lured. In "a moment. apparently, the whole
building was in flames.
BURNED LIKE TINDER.
The weather has been very dry for two
weeks and the wreckage anu goods burned
like tinder. An alarm was turned in from
the automatic fire alarm box in the Courier
Journal building and the fire department
was quickly at work. The wrecked build
ing was at once beyond control. Attention
was turned TO saving the Courier Journal
building, two doors north, and the Poly
technc library building, two num-
bers south A water tower
was manned and the hose in
the COurjey-Journ0l building were attached
and turned through the side and rear of the
building and fourteen fire engines put In
position and set to playing upon the flames.
With all this force it was half an hour be-
fore the flames gave way, and an hour be-
fora they were under control.
THE CONTEMPORARY CLOSE CALI.
At oae time it seemed that the Courier
Journal building would certainly be
burned. A few printers who were in the
composing rooms left, and the reporters
and editors who were on duty gathered
their valuables and prepared to escape,
4 most of them actually leaving. But the
4 wind was from the north, and carried the
f heatin the opposite direction. By strenuous
efforts the Polytechnic building on the
\ south was saved, with heavy damage from
water to the books, pictures, and other art
collections. The fire caught in and burned
4 tlJ the two upper floors Of j. V. Escott &
\ Sons store, dealers In pictures, fine mirrors,
4 wall paper, photographers supplies, and
two lover floors were flooded with water
\ till hardly anything was saved. On the
south Leverone's confectionery and Porter's
millinery store was slightly damaged.
The principal losses are, as nearly as can
now be Learned, about as follows: Kauff-
4 maD & Strauss, retail dry goods,
stocE $30, 0G0, nearly covered by insurance;
BamUerger Bloom & Co.. owners of the
building, $50 900, insured; V Escott 81
a Sons, fine wood work and supplies, $50, 600,
insured; Polytechnic library building
b'oks, etc, 5l0,0 partly insured; Louis
vile Gas Company, $500, covered by in-
H& surGnce.