St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-07
SEVENTEEN DEAD TAKEN OUT
THIRTY MISSING AND MOST OF
THEM UNDOUBTEDLY IN i
THE RUINS.
NOT A MOMENTS WARNING.
Fifty People Go Down in the Crash
Newspaper Employees Among
the Victimss

ing rent nearly IOTIy IeeI WlQe from
top to bottom of a five-story busi-
ness block, seventeen dead bodies re-
covered, a score of persons injured,
and more than that number missing,
with a 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 at the corner Of Larned
and Shelby streets, occupied by the
Detroit Evening Journal and several
other tenants.
At o'clock this morning the whole
neighborhood was terrified by fear
full shock, caused by the explosion Of
the boilers in the basement of the
Journal building. Plate glass win
dows across the street and some Of
those farther away were shattered
by the conclusion, and several per-
sons were cut by falling glass. At
the same instant the five floors and
roof of that section Of the building
collapsed and fell to the basement,
carrying with it at least fifty per-
sons who had not the slightest warn
ing of their danger. The cloud Of
dust which blinded the eyes Of the
amazed spectators of the horror was
quickly succeeded by smoke from
the fire which started in the ruins.
The work of rescue was rushed to
the utmost all day and tonight, but
progress has necessarily been very
slow. The debris and brick are
dumped into an almost solid mass,
upon which quantities of water have
been poured and into which compar-
ativeIy little headway has been made.
THE VICTIMS.
The dead thus far taken out from
the ruins are:
LIZZIE TAPLEY, aged twenty, en-
pIoyed by Davis & Co.
HENRY WALSH, employed by the
KohIbrand Engraving company
JOHN J. REUTER-, apprentice in the
employ of Dunlap & Co.
GEORGE H. SOULE,, engraver.
GEORGE SHAW, mailer, Detroit
Journal.
WILLIE HAYES, sixteen years old,
mailer, Detroit Journal.
JAMES ROSS.
WILLIAM W. DUNLAP.
HENRY LARIvERE, employe mall
ing room of Journal.
UNKNOWN BOY, remains found IN
ruins at 4:15; features unrecognizable-
CARRIE BAUER, aged twenty-three'
bookkeeper Of Hillier's btndery; pody
recovered at II p. M
E. L.REIGER, machinist; family al
Oscoda, Mich
UNIDENTIFIED, slight built man;
body at morgue.
HATTIE KILLER. employe Killers
bindery, body recovered at 1880 a. m.
MINNIE LIESE, also bindery en-
pIoye, body taken out shortly after MISS
Killers was found.
WALTER F. SAXBY, machinist'
Dunlap & co.
MICHAEL WARD. stereotyper,
Journal.
the injured are Cornelius George,
seriously scaIded about head and breast
and injured around hips; Charles Her
CERT employe John Davis & Co.,
bruised around head and body and
scalded by acid; Annie O'Donoghue'
legs and face crushed, badly injured on
hofy: condition serious; H G- toye,
advertising solicitor Evening News cut
about head and face; Albert Weoer'
nressman Of Journal, badly burned on
hand arm and feet, scalp lacerated
and unconscious; injuries prooaoIS
fatal. A. D. Lynch. stereotyper, arm
and face burned, confusion OIL sap
James Holt, sixteen years oId' EN-
n1oved bv Speaker Printing company
5aan cash across face; Martin Meyers
odyartfsing solicitor News, cut IN the
neck. Carrie A. Speck, clerk cut uS
fving glass; Andrew Hlioersciieo'
machine hand: W. G.. Jupp, face iace .,,
a+ed bv splintersd glass; IhoIiias
Jams. assistant foreman JouI H@.'
struck on head by steam pipe InJui
NOT serious; Frank Gmeiner' aFusS'
hadlv cut about head; Joseph a:
ford bool<keeper, signify lniutt, ii!.I,,
T,ucy A. Holden, stenograpneF' SAe
injured: Joseph Winter, poohhe
nainfully injured, but not seriousS lousy
walter OFT, artist, hands ana ,-s w.
cut: Herman Miller, office ooy
Iithographing company knocAeo O0
and severely cut by falling glass;
THIRTY MISSING.
Some thirty tenants and employees
IN the building are still MISSING,
and there can be no doubt thac mos
of these are lying dead under sne
aabris The wrecked portion Oh tne
t,,i1dinr which is owned by the
Novberrv estate, was separated run
tbe rest of the structure oy ni
wou The first floor of that section
was occupied by the John DaNi'
dealers in drusgists SUP
niles and by the Journal hlail'H
oor+r,ant The second, third anu
fo,,r+r floors were occupied py inc
paws company, W. w. Dunlap q 80
ms achinists, ard Hillie's pooh p'.,o
arv The editorial rooms oA el
To,,rnaI are on the fourth hoor' ous
situated beyond the fire wall anu
49, s+aff ESCAPED injury. The IouL
nal stereotyping room on the ~ 80
eoor was directly in the path VI
axnlosiou. and went down III ti
- few had miraculous
o.as and came staggering from I.ie
80. ,ftar fhe awful shock, scareeiS
,Iao,-;,e what had befallen treih-
Arthur D. Lynch, Journal
+ynar who went down WITH the
from the top floor, was puiied -
80 ,.,ins entirely conscious ne
,ndar a steam table, prepar'ns
- ottriY When he fell he was pFo-
+scted by the great iron ta''e'
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