Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-06-21
BOILER BXPLODBS.
In the Basement Beneath 4 Harness
Shop in Fall River, and the
Building
BECOMES A MASS OF RUINS
Beneath Which Ara Buried Thirty
Employes-Several Killed
Engineer Arrested.

FALL RIVER, Mass, June l1.-lhc
worst catastrophe that has visited this
city since the Granite mill fire occurred
this morning in the Langley harness
shop, a four-story building on County
street. A new boiler exploded in the
basement, blowing out an entire side OF
the structure and allowing the upper
floors to settle into a mass of ruins.
There were about As persons, most OF
them women, at work in the shops, of
whom only Henry j. Langley, the pro-
prietor; George Davol, the foreman, and
seven other employees had..been rescued
alive up to $50. Flames communicated
with the ruins soon after the explosion.
The firemen made heroic efforts to res
cue the imprisoned work people. Shrieks
from the girls in the ruins were mingled
with the agonized cries Of friends. Every
physician who could be found was sent
at once to the scene and houses in the
vicinity were turned into temporary hos
pitfalls. At 8 O'Clock the badly Scared
and scarcely recognizable body Of a Wo-
man was taken from the ruins. The fire
had been quenched but it was still
smouldering and the work of rescue
went on with great difficulty. Marhin-
list Trip was among those who escaped.
A girl named Jalbert and her sistcr-in-
law, who worked side by side OF the
third floor, escaped, one unhurt and the
other slightly bruised. Miss Jalbert
says there was a terrible report followed
by a shock: the roof seemed to lift and
then fall, completely demolishing the
building. She and her sister-in-law
were thrown into the middle of the road.
The latter is badly cut about the face
and arms. The names of those injured
as far as known are: Alice Trembly,
Matte Derosiers, Leah Horton, Adele
DUDE, Ida Lepage, Henry Langley, Geo,
E. Davol, Engineer Trip, Foreman War
ren. Mr.. Langley is in a critical condi-
ton. The shock broke the windows of
the Stafford mill and injured several
operators. The harness shop is a total
wreck, but the flames are under control.
The charred remains of Robert Murray
were recovered. The Star Music hall
has been made a morgue. At 1880 it
was estimated that there were thirty
still in the ruins. The third body re-
covered was that of a woman. 1t could
not be recognized. Mayor Green an
nounced at II O'Clock than ten persons
were killed and three are still missing.
Only about thirty persons were in the
building when the explosion occurred.
There are a number of injured and
several may die. The fire is now all
out, but the building is SO badly
wrecked that the search Of the ruins is
progressing slowly. The list of dead is
as follows: Adele DUDE, aged 20; Leah
Horton, II: Adolph Be~llefuell, 45; Rob-
ert Murray, u. Seriously injured:
Thomas Barry, skull fractured. face and
body burned, will probably die; Matte
Curoches, bruised and burned, fatally:
William Russell, badly burned; Alice
Trembly, bruises and burns: Ida LIE
page, bruises. There were twenty
people in the building. -Four were
burned beyond recognition. Twelve
escaped with hardly any injuries. En-
gineer Lepage was arrested. He says
the boiler Was five years old and had not
been inspected for long time. He says
he put water in the boiler some time
before the catastrophe