The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-11-04
4 TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
DISASTROUS RESULTS Of THE COL
LAPSE OFABOlLER.
One Man killed, Several Injured and
Eaf Million Dollars Worth of Proper
ty Destroyed.

EaIf Million Dollars Worth of Proper
ty Destroyed.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 26.-Bya boil.
er explosion mere this afternoon one
man was killed, several persons injured
anG nearly hall a million dollars worth
of property destroyed. At o'clock
William r. 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 vicin-
ity Was Ike an earthquake. Adams
Was thrown 10 the ground with terrific
force, and received such internal injur-
les that he Will die.
The shed in which the boilers were
located was completely demolished and
pieces Of iron and of timber and show
erS OF red-hot Goals were thrown IN
every direction. a great mass Of iron
and a 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. All were caught in the wreck
age, but it is believed all escaped alive.
Dreyfus was seriously injured but not
dangerously, Carrie Dinkelspeit, Hattie
Ennis and Lena Sickles were slightly
injured.
In moment apparently the whole
building was in flames. The weather
mas been very dry for two weeks and
the wreckage and goods burned like
tinder.
An alarm was turned in from the au-
tomato fire alarm box in the Courier
Journal building and the department
was quickly at work. The fire IN the
wrecked building was at once beyond
control and attention was turned to
saving the Courier-J ournal building,
two doors north, and the Polytechnic
Library building, two numbers south
A water tower was manned and the
hose in the Courier-Journal building
were attached and turned through the
side and rear OF the building, and four
teen fire engines we're put in position
and set to PLAYING upon the flames.
With all this force it was half an hour
before the flames gaveway and an hour
before they were under control. at
one time 1t seemed that the Courier
Journal would certainly be burned.
The few printers who were ID the com
posing room left and the reporters and
editors who were on duty gathered
their yaluables and prepared to escape,
most Of them actually leaving. But
the wind was from the north and car
ried 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
fire caught and burned cut the two up
per floors Of J. Y. EScOtt & Sons, deal
ers in pictures, fine mirrors, wall paper
and photographers supplies, and the
Two lower tIcors were flooded with wa
ter till hardly anything was saved. On
the south Crerone'S confectionery and
Porter's 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 lnsur-
ance: Bamberger, Bloom & Co, owners
OF building, SS0,OOO. insured; j. Y. Es-
co:t 4: Sons, fine wood work and sup
plies, $4,000, insured; Polytechnic Ii
brary, building, books, etc, ZOO, part
IL insured; Louisville Gas Company,
$500, covered by insurance.
This evening the miners decided to
call cut al the men in the district.
This will include one thousand men
wcrking at the advance.
John Mattel. with his wife and IN
fant Child, applied to the authorities to-
night for food. Hesaid he was a strIk-
ing miner and they had walked from
C0nnel!sville here, having tasted moth
ing for nearly forty-eight hours. Ine
mother was too weak to suckle her babe,
ard, to save the little ones Life Matter
said he cut his finger and allowed the
Child to drink his blood. The couple
were terribly emaciated, and the child
was almost dead. Food and lodgings
were furnished them. Mattel tells an
awfal story of priVation and suffering
among the miners.