The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-07
HORROR IN DETROIT.
Journal Building Wrecked by
a Boiler Explosion.
r TUMBLES IN A HEAP.
Seventeen Corpses Recovered twenty
seven Persons Missing. some OF
whom Are fin the Debris.

Detroit. Nov. "a gaping rent nearly
forty feet vide from top TO bottom OF 2
five-sfory business block; fifteen dead
bodies recovered a score OF persons IN
jured and more than that number miss
ing. with certainty that many more
dead bodies are beneath the ruins; such
are the results OF an explosion which
startled the city today and totally wrecked
about a third OF the building a the corner
OF Larned and Shelby streets, occupied BY
the Evening Journa, and several other
tenants At O'Clock this morning the
whole nelghborhood was terrified by
fearful shock caused by the explosion OF
the boilers in the basement OF the Journal
building. Plate glass windows across the
street and some OF those farther away
were shattered by the conclusion. and sew
eraI persons we're cut by falling glass. At
the same instant the FIVE floors and roof
Of that section cf the building collapsed
and fell INTO the basement, carrying with
il att least fifty persons. who had not
the slightest warning OF heir danger.
The cloud Of dust which blinded the eyes
OF the amazed spectators Of the horror
was quickly succeeded ny snoke from the
fires which started in the ruins. The work
OF rescue was rushed 10 the utmost all
day and tonight, but progress has been
necessarily slow The debris OF brick was
which quantities OF water has been poured
and into which comparatively little head
way has been made.
The dead thus far taken from the ruins
are; Lizzie Tapley. aged %. employed by
Davis q Co; Henry Walsh. employed by
the Kohlbrand Engraving Company: John
). Reuter-. an apprentice in the employ
or Dunlap a Co: George II. Soule, an en-
graVer; George Shaw, mailer OF the Jour
nal Willie Haws, mailer Of the Journal:
James Ross, William W. Dunlap, Henry
l4arVere, empioye Of the mailing room OF
the journal; an unknown boy. remains
found in the ruins at AIS. features unre-
cognizable. supposed 10 be John Bowman.
employed by hohlbrand & Co.; Carrie
Bauer, aged =, bookkeeper in Killers
b.ndery. body recovered at II p. m; Rel
ger machinist family lives al Oscoda,
Mich; unidentified, slight built man, body
a the morgue. Hattie Hitler, employe of
Killers book bIndery. body recovered at
l2:So a. m; Minnie Leise. bindery employe,
body gotten out shortly afterward.
The injured are Cornelius George seTi-
ousiy scalded about the head and breast
and injured around the hips: Charles HUI
bert, an employe of the John Davis Com
pany bruised around the head and body
and scalded by acid; Annie O'Donaghue.
legs and face crushed. badly injured on
the body. II. I. Foye. advertising solicitor
or the Evening News, cut about the head
and face: Albert Weber. pressman of the
Journal, badly burned on hands, arms and
feet, scalp lacerated. injuries probably IA
tai; A ID. Lynch. stere0typer. hands. arms,
ana face bruised. James Holt, employed
by Speaker Printing Company, deep cash
across face: Martin Meyers. advertising
solicitor OF the News, cut in neck; Carrie
A. speak clerk, cut by flying glass: An
drew Halberschied. machine hand: w. c.
kupp, face lacerated by sphntersd glass;
Thomas w. Williams. assistant foreman
OF the Journal. struck on The head by
steamppe; Frank Grelner. artist. badly
cut about head Joseph y. Beresford. book
Keeper. slightly injured. Lucy A Holden,
stenographer, slightly injured: Margaret
L. Robinson, stenographer Slightly iniur-
ed: Joseph Winter, bookkeeper. painfully
injured but not seriously; Waiter OFT art
ist, hands and wrists cut: Herman Miller.
Knocked down and severely cut by falling
glass
The wrecked portion or the building.
which Is owned by the Newberrv estate
was separated from the rest OF the
structure by a frewall. The first floor
OF the section was occupied by the John
Davis Company. dealers in druggists
specalties, and by the Journal mailing
department. The second, third and fourth
floors were occupied by the DAVIS Com
pany- w. w. Dunlap & Co. machinistg
and Killers book bndery. The editorial
rooms OF the Journal are on the fourth
floor. but situated beyond the fire wall
and the stan escaped injury. The Journal
stereotype room. on The fifth floor. was
directly in The path Of the explosion. and
went down IN the wreck 4 few persons
had miraculous escapes and came stagger-
ing down from the ruins after the awful
shock. scarcely knowing themselves and
what had betalIen them.
Arthur u. Lynch. a Journal stereotvDer
Fn
top floor was pulled from the ruins en-
ureiy conscious. lie was under a steam
table. preparing a matrix When he fell
he was protected by the great iron table
and could plainly hear the rescuers at
work until they reached him Mr. ia
cooS, paper dealer. who had been in HI
her's bndery. had Just left the building
when the crash came. He thought there
must have bcen twenty girls and four or
five boys in the h!ndery beside George !
Hillier. the proprietor of whom nothing
has been seen or heard since the acc'-
dent. Charles Hackett was found in tho
ruins in the rear, 70 which anproach was
had through the alley. Before he was re-
moved in tho ambulance he reportod there
had been four or five girls on The floor with
him. Charles Herbert packer, en-
Iloyed by John Davis & Co. was on the
third floor when the explosion occurred
he said. II felt the era al and was sur
realize what had happened The vinegar
barrels AMI acid Carhoys came down on
ne. ! 10 NOT know how 7 got out I know
l hreathcd the fresh air after a scramble
among tho ruins. and knew had escaped
There We're four others in the building
t0ai ] know o. Alexander CampteH Annie
Tapley. kitrie Leonard ard Joseph Vim
ter 90 not know who got car alive"
From the lists ~ tenants and empl0vrx
secured BE- seems certain that fifty people
IN all were IN the collapsed section There
are stil tventy-seNcl persons Uuarcouut-
81 Tor. and IL is reasonable 10 presume
That most or them are among the ruins.
Al every hoHr reports are received az 9th
ers who are missing and whose relatives
and friends heEe been unable 20 fnd any
trace of Thorn Two - inc fu fGrei who
aro 'r the hospital Will probably recover
az those who are now in the ruins ~ IS
impossible thas amy will Pa rescued alive
Those who We're no. KILLED outright have
1utonhtv'iy Eer.~hci either from 5rF-s-.a-
tion or exhaustion The only hope IS -ho+
some 81 those Who are reuarsea missing
wsy Pee safe win friends The total DEATH
rate VIII not be- known before tor, 1rr.yv
night IL NAV he even longer before th..
workwer reach the basement 4aars ~
thc Inflated building and CHE total NUM-