The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-07

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dozen dead bodies recovered; a score Of
persons injured aud moro than that
number missing, with q certainty that
many more dead bodies Nrs beneath the
ruins, are tho results OF an explosion
which startled tue city to-day and
totally wrecked about a third Of tho
building at the corner OF LarnOd and
Shelby streets, occupied by the Detroit
Evening Journal and several other ten.
ants
Alto o'clock this morning the whole
neiehborhood was terrified by iea rinl
shock, caused by thu exploding OF the
boilers in the basement OF the Journal
building. Plate glass Windows across
the street and somo OF those farther
away, werO shattered by the concussion
and several persous were cut by falling
glass. At the same instant, the five
floors and roof OF that section oil the
building collapsed and fell To the base.
mont, carrying with it at least ftIy per-
sons who had not the slightest warning
OF their danger. The clond OF dust
which blinded the eyes Of the amazed
spectators Of the horror, was quickly
succeeded By smoke from the tires
which started In tho ruins. The work
OF rescue was rushed TO the utmost all
day and tonight, but progress has
necessarily heen very slow.
The debris aud brick are dumped
into an almost solid Iuass, upon which
Quantities OF wafer has been poured
and into which comparatively little
headway has been made.
THE DEAD.
Tho dead thus far taken from the
ruins are:
Lizzie Taploy, aged twenty, employed
by Davis & Co.
Henry Walsh, employed by Kohl
brand Engraving Company.
John j. Reuter-, apprOnticOin the EN-.
ploy OF Dunlap ( Co.
George Ii, Soule, engraver.
George Shaw, mailer, Detroit Jour
nal.
Willie HawOs, sixteen years old,
mailer. Detroit Journal.
James Ross.
William W. Dunlap.
Henry Lariyers, employe mailing
room. Journal.
Unknown boy, romans found at 4:l6;
features unrecognizable. Supposed to
be John Bowman, employed by Kohl
brand company. es
Carrie Bauer. aged twenty.three,
bookkeepOr in Killers factory; body
recovered at lip. NJ.
L. l. Rger, machinist, family liyes
Oscoda, Mich.
Unidentified, slight built man; body
at morgue.
THE INJURED,
Cornelius George. seriously scalded
about the head and breast and injured
around the hips. Charles Herbert, EN-.
ploye OF John Davis & Co., bruised
around tho head and body and scalded
by acid. Annie 0'Donohue, legs aud
iuco crushed, badly injured in body;
condition serious. II. q. Foye, adver.
tising solicitor Of tho Evening Ncws, cut
about tho head and face. Albert Weber,
prcnman on tho Journal, badly burned
on tho hand, arm aud feet; scalp lacer.
aiod aud unconscious; injurios prob.
ably fatal. A. d. Lynch, stcrootypet,
hand, urn and face burned; confusion
Of scalp. james Holt, sixteen
years old, employed by speaker
Printing Company, doOp cash acres
iRcc Martin Meysrs, advertising soliGi.
tor Nows, cut in tho neck. Carrie A.
Spock, clOrk, cut by flying glass. An.
drow ilildCrIchiod, machine hand, W.
q. Iupp; iacc laccrNtod by Bpllnterod
glass. Thomas Williams, assistant
foreman journal. struck on head by
steam pip0; injuries not serious, Frank
Gmciner, artiit, badly cut about head.
Joseph a. BOroIiord, bookkoopor, slight.
~ injured. Lucy A. Holden, steno.
grnphcr, slightly Injured, Margaret L,
Robson, sionogrnphor, slightly injured.
Joseph Winter, beokkeOpor, painfully
injured, bur not seriously. Wallnr OFT,
Arliut, hands and wrists cut Herman
Miller, Office hoy, Calvert Lllhograph.
Ing Company, knocked down aud aeycrc'
ly cut by falling glns'.
Somo thirty lonantS and OmployOs In
tho building Nro still mlSslng aud thorO
eau bo no doub; that most Of those are
lying dead und0r the dobrif.
TuE WRECKED nrlLnlS0.
Tho wrCckod portion Of tho building
which 10 owned by tho NOwbotty O'.
tao, was separated from tho rcSt Of tho
structure by lito wall, Tho fret floor
Of that section was occupied by the
John Davis Company, dcNlotG In drug.
gisls Upucialllns, aud by tho Journal
IN ailing department. Tho second, third
aud fourth floors wCrr occupied by tho
Davis Company, W, W. Dunlap i Com.
pany, maChintIis and Hitler Dookbind.
ory. 'rhU editorial roomB ot tho Jour.
nal arc Oh tho fourth floor, but situated
beyond tho lru wall and tho siah 90,
capod injuty. Tho journal BiorOoiyp.
Ing room Oh tho nth floor was directly
In tho path Of the explosion aud went
down In tho wtOck. A iow had mirac.
nlou, OacapOs and came RluggNrinu from
the ruins nilgt tho awful stock, scarce
tliuNing thVnsclycA what had bcINlOn
them.
Arthur y. Lynch, Journal uturdo.
typC, who wont tlown with the wtnck
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