The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-17
Scores of Sightseers Wounded, Many
SO Seriously They May Not Re-
cover from Their Injuries.
ONLY THREE FIREMEN LEFT
ALL THE OTHERS HURLED TO DEATH
BY THE EXPLODING POWDER.
Scenes and Incidents IN the Vicinitx
OF the Fire-BuiIdings Wrecked
as III by Tornado.

mated that the number of persons killed bys
last nights explosion of giant powder is
sixty. Nearly fifty are already known to
have been killed. To-day the city is in
mourning and all of the flags are at half
mast. A relief meeting called by the Mayor
was largely attended and committees APP
pointed for the collection of money for the
bereaved families. The people are responds
ing literally and a sufficient amount to re-
lfeve distress is already guaranteed. A nuns
ber of bodies are mangled beyond all recog-
milton and never will be identified. Follow
ing is the list of the identified dead:
CHARLES Alison, MIKE DEAGLE,
GEO. MCDONALD, GEO. HOLLOWAY.
C. GUTENBERG, - BAILEY.
c. BARNES. A. McWILLIAMS.
J. J. McHAI.E, cHAs. HANSEN.
PROF. ROBBINS. ELMER GREENE.
J. j. ENRIGHT. ED. SLOANE,
c. E. TRACEY, ALEX. CADDY.
1'RED KRANBECK. S. DELONGERY.
JAMES O'LBARY, A. d. CAMERON. i
ALBERT GODDARD JOHN SLOANE.
WM PIERCE, SAMUEL ASH.
- FOSTER DAVID MOSES.
MIKE MEAD, GEORGE FIFER,
GEORGE WILTON, PETER NORLING.
J. B. MILLER. JOHN FUDGE.
FRED BOWMAN. OLE OI1STEIN.
Following is the best available list Of
seriously injured at the Murray & Froud
Hospital:
MIKE O'NEILL, cut on the head and
arms, badly mangled.
w R. ORR. jaw broken, tongue cut and
teeth knocked out
JOHN COLE, four ribs brueeA
HENRY EARLE, back husA and les
JAMES M ELROY, kneecap smashed.
MELBOURNE TRACEY, seriously in
jured in the bowels and an arm broken
WILLIAM SINGLETON, right arm bro
6. A. ST. CLAIR, left hip badly bruised
TOMMY DONALD. will lose. his right
HENRY TIGGERMAN, right leg broken
and breast badly injured.
w. l.. MILES, stomach mangled and head
JOHN COIN, body badly SCARED.
w. GROSSEN, back injured.
r. A. VEAL. back injured.
MIKE CONNORS, confusion Of the leg.
FRANK HART. confusion of face and
Nicholas ROGERS. sprainked ankle
w NJ. sHINGLET.N,. fracture of arm.
GEORGE DEVOY, badly bruised.
ANDREW SWIFT, fractured arm;
arm.
At the ST. James Hospital the Sisters of
Mercy and the volunteer assistants wera
tired and weary this morning, no one in
the institution having slept up to noon.
Five of the fifteen victims brought there
last night died, two of the deaths occur
ring while the patients were being dressed
The sisters were unable to get the names
of some of those who were given into their
care, and the following is list as far aa
can be secured:
TOM BURNS, fatally injured.
MIR. BOW, injuries SO serious that there
is little hope of recovery.
ANDREW MICHAELS, unconscious, but
not seriously injured.
- FRAZIER. boy. broken arm and
Dave COLEMAN, head injured. but not
serious.
TOM COLEMAN, injuries not dangerous.
T J HAD, broken arm and leg.
T. J. REILLY, leg badly bruised.
]. A. BURNS, broken leg and arm.
WILLIAM MANDREWS, boy, back in-
jured.
JOHN SLOAN. compound fracture of
Professor Robbins. or Robinson, who Is
also known 1.-TWO Bear" was famous
hunter and a friend of Theodore Roosevelt,
of New York. He has spent all his life in
the mountains and was making preparations
to guide party through practically un-
known portion of the Yellowstone park.
Several visitors in the city among the
dead, among them being J. 3. Miller, an
Idaho lawyer. The ruins are still shoulder
ing and it is believed that more bodies will
be found under the acres of debris Inquir-
les are coming from all parts of the United
States inquiring about relatives and friends
who reside in the city and who were sup
posed to have been here at the time of the
explosion. 1t is admitted by all that this
is by far the most disastrous surface ex-
plosion that has occurred anywhere in the
country during recent years.
DETAILS OF THE EXPLOSION.