The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-13
A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
Explosion of a Battery of Boilers
in the Detroit Journal Building.
Thirty or Forty People Killed and Injured
in the Wrecked Buildlng-rhe De-
bris Takes Fire, Adding Hor-
ror 10 the Calamity.

the battery of boilers in the building d
of the Evening Journal exploded, fl
wrecking the buildings Nos 40 ana 4, O
West Larned street, killing at least &
forty persons wounding twenty others e
more or less seriously and causing p
money loss of $4,000 The list OF loen- C
tilted dead is as follows: @
Lizzie Tapley, aged 20, employed by DAVIS i
g. Co. nttrd l
Henry Walsh. boy employed by Kohlbrana
Engraving Company.
John ]. Reuter-, aged Il, IN the employ Vi p'iA-
lap & Co. S
George H. Soule, engraver !
George Shaw, IS years old, mailer uetIoi'
Journal. -. ,,o.uo,+
Willie Hawes 10 years old mailer Dotro'' ,
Journal -,. r.,,,o,
JUii,Ioro w Dunlap Of Dunlap Rogers Typo
graph Supply Company ..,. Tour
Henry Larvere. mailing clerk DetrolV Jo"'-
nal. ,,o,,od hv
walter p sazesy, machinist' employed Dy
Dunlap s Co. ,,,,,,o,,
al, Reicer. machinist employed by Dunlap
g. Co. .uo, 10
The body of the twelfth victim rccoVere"iS 10
that Of John BONNER, boy
List of injured: ,,
correlirs George foreman Journal mailing
room seriously scalded about the mead
Charles Hergert bruised arouhu heuu "''u
body and scalded by acld' ,,,
Annie ODonoghue legs crushed ana Dauly
injured on boSy; condition serious
II. g. Foye cut about head and race
HInor, Wener nressman on Journal, badly |
burned. scalp wound ana uhooHS0t0'''
probably fatal ,,, hord |
q. d. Lynch, stereotyper on Journal manu.
arm and face burned; injuries not serious
lanes Holt 1G years old. deep cash across
face and other injuries but not serious
Martin Neyers cut In the neck; not serlou''
Miss Carrie A. Speck face cut by hylhS glass
Andrew Hlderscheid lacerated by glass
Tbe missing are: George j. Hitler, Kate
IJiller forewoman Hattie Hlller, Mlllnlo
Tiese Anna Uhlik, Rose Morgan BerVha
Weidbush Anna Weidbush, John Breltenhei'
Adoph Schreber Jennie Neugaur' Cha,Ios
Lind boy; Carrie Bauer DooKkeePer, Non" "
Rretz. Emma Lchtenberg. John hoeroeL, al,
employees of Killers bookDlnuerS' mlSn"oi Si.t
Word stereotyper Detroit journal; hlVIie
Taonard Nelson LacroiX, Miss Lue freI
aged 20: James Thomas, machlnst' Duhiap "
Co. John S. Derby. carpenter; Joseph Drauoy,
carpenter: Ernest Perkins, mall clerk DetloiU ~
Journal; John Gordon, Lizzie Iaylor' Euseho
Wilson. John Campbell ana Wllllain heS noiO''
The Detroit Journal was located al
Shelby and Larned streets, occupying
for it's main offices a seventy-toot 1ronI
on Larned street. Next east OF its
bpild;np and part of the same block
were twenty foot fronts which consul. :.
tuted the scene of the disaster. one Oh
these was wholly occupied by John
Davis & Co., saleratus manufacturers
while in the basement OF the oChei
were the two boilers which explooeu
Inst above the boiler room on the mrs.
Aoor was the Journals mailing room
The second floor was occupied by th'
Kohlbrand Engraving Company an'
w. w. Dunlap's agency for Rogers ~
poqraph supplies. The third and tourti
f,oors were ]. George Killers bookDlna
cry and the top floor was the journal
stereotyping room. There were Uhre' :,
stereotypers at work on the journal
floor. about thirty girls in the oook
bindery, besides the proprietors.
The first intimation the neighDoi
hood got of the disaster was the tire
mendous explosion, followed by Tn
fying of debris and clouds OF smoK
and steam. Before this cleared ava
the whole five floors and the peop
working on them were in an ineXtr
cable mass. The force OF the eXplosio
had thrown down the wall between
and 45 Larned street, and the Jols
which rested on it came tumblir
down. tearing themselves away fro
the adjoining wall
The fremen were there in mlnu
from the next corner. Ihe VINO
downtown division of the departme
followed. and willing volunteers fro
the crowd that collected pitched
with them to help dig into the ruiz
Near the top, Annie ODonoghue w
found. her head mass of bloody iles
from which faint cries for prit
were emitted constantly. She was CT
ried off to the hospital. Then beg
the narrowing details of the aw.
calamity.
Near the top of the ruins, one a
and the leg of q man protruded. l
remainder of the body was buried
meath the rubbish. At intervals
arm was feebly waved. The rescu
centered their efforts upon this pc
and worked like heroes to effect a
lease as quickly as possible. MI
moments elapsed before he was lii
into an ambulance. At that time
was not determined whether life
extinct, but he was unconscious L
came the horrors of the calamity.
the workers dug into the debris
the air got into it, the furnace fires
the debris from the bindery ablaze
the wreekers were driven back
smoke through which from tim
time came mufiled cries for help
As the diggers continued their
in front of Sae wrecked building
upraised arm of man was uncov
on the sidewalk, not far from w
four other bodies were taken out
head was crushed into shap'
mass. He was identified as ID
Lariviere, Journal mailing G.
Up to midnight last night four
dead bodies had been, taken out
the search for others was still 6
on The cause of the explosion
mystery.
Strikers Places to be Filled
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. T.
nights reports from points aloni
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