Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-16

The death list will undoubtedly reach
thirty.
James Thomas, j. G. Hitler, Miss Lich-
tenberg n John Reuter-, have been
added to the list of missing, which is
growing hourly.
Injured:
Martin Meyer, cut in neck and head.
K. II. Foye, cut about head.
Frank Gmeiner, bad cash on head.
Con George. head of mailing depart
ment, Journal; badly cut and bruised.
j. Thompson, engineer Journal build
ing; badly injured.
Miss Annie l.. O'Donoghue, badly cut
and injured.
Joseph Beresford.
Lucy Holder.
Maggie Robinson.
j.. Weber, pressnan Journal. both
legs n arm broken; probably fatally
injured.
John NJ. Winter, an employe Of Davis
e. Co.; not badly hurt.
Charles Hargatt; not seriously injured
NJ. Jacobs, cut in head.
Tom Williams. assistant foreman
Journal; not seriously injured.
At least twenty girls who were EN-.
ployed in a book bindery over Charles
Wright & Co.'S establishment wen:
down In the ruins and IT is hardly pos.
sible that any of them have escaped.
Later-Michael Ward, Arthur d
Lynch and II. James Ross. Journa!
s~tereotypers, have been taken out of the
ruins more or less seriously injured.
Eugenia Wilson, Jennie Neubauer
Miss Carrie Bower and John Bracken
becker, all employees of Killers bool
bindery, are missing.
The building wrecked was No. 45 Lar
ned street, occupied as the Journal mail
Ing room on the first floor; Rogers Typo
graph Supply company on the second
G.. j. Hitler, q book binder on the third
floor. and j. Kohlbrand, an engraver
on the fourth floor. The top floor wa.
used as the Journal stereotyping de
partment. Hitler employed fully two
dozen girls in his establishment anG
only one has. so far as known, escaped
alive Three of the Journals stereotype.
ers. who were on the fifth floor, went
down in the explosion and are undoubt.
eddy dead. 1t is not known how many
persons were on the fourth floor or how
many were on the Journal mailing room
floor.
The establishments Of Charles Wright
and John f. Davis were badly shat
tered, but not wrecked, and beyond
some bruises none of the employees are
injured.
At 10 o'clock It is thought the list OF
dead will number about thirty. The
ruins are i'll flames and 1t is hardly pos
sible that any OF those buried under
them can escape. The Journal building
proper was crowded with employees
when the boilers let go, but none were
injured. The building is rendered UNI
inhabitable, however, and the paper is
being issued from the Free Press office.
At II o'clock three dead bodies had
been taken out Of the ruins, those of a
girl and two men, and half a dozen 9th.
ers had been rescued alive but are prob.
ably fatally injured. Just how many
lives are lost Is a matter Of conjecture
but II will undoubtedly reach twenty
five.
The firemen were quickly at the work
Of rescuing those who were unfortunate
enough to have been caught In tbs
wrecked building. Cornelius George
foreman of the Journal mailing depart.
ment, was one of the first to he rescued
He is badly scalded and injured and
can hardly live.
Miss Annie O'Donoghut wa. found
near the top of the debris Sh, i. saie
In.
Arthur d. Lynch, James Ross cnd
Michael Ward of the Journal stereo.
v~tn- 800 xr,Ant lNxy H. 49, 49,
but all three have been rescued Lynch
and Ross were conscious when taker
out and 1t is thought they are not seri
ously injured. Ward was in ar uncon.
scious condition when escued and he 4,
badly hurt.
The explosion shook the surrounding
buildings and glass in the radius Of G
block was shattered In all directions
Many employees Of adjoining establish
ments were badly cut by flying glass.
The Debris Takes Fire.
Half an hour after the explosion oc
Cured. fire broke out In the debris ant
the firemen had to suspend the work o:
rescue and devote their attention &c
putting out the flames. Just before the
flames started one poor fellow was
AOoAAa WIN thC iOWCi P0it Vi hhG WY
pinioned tightly. He was conscious ant
begged the rescuers to get hin out.
They worked like fends to release the
unfortunate victim, but all to no avail
The flames suddenly shot up around him
and he had to be left to his fate. Ur
to noon, eight bodies had been taken
from the ruins and two more were In
sight. Most Of the bodies had burned
beyond recognition. OF the bodies re
covered, only those OF John s. Derby and
Lizzie Tapley have been identified
The firemen are working desperately
but progress IL slow.
The Identified Dead.
The list ofidentihed dead at 2:so p. IN
was:
George w. soulA
George Shaw.
w. w. Dunlop.
Henry Larviere.
Willie Hauss.
Lizzixe Tapley.
A Serious Loss.
The Rogers Typograph supply plant
which had just been leased by the Msr.
genthaler company to VIM. Dunlap. and
which was located on the sscsnd door Of