Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-07
EIGHTEtN DEAD BODIES
Already Removed From the Ruins ola
Detroit Building.
The Explosion Of a Steam Boiler IN
the Basement Causes Forty Feet
of a Five Story Building to FALL
Carrying Down Fully Fifty Per-
sons With Many More Sup
posed to be in the Ruins.

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ing rent nearly forty feet from top to
bottom of five story business block;
eighteen dead bodies recovered; a score
of persons injured and more than that
number missing with a certainty that
many more dead bodies are beneath the
ruins: such is the results Of an explosion
which starcled the city to-day and to-
tally wrecking about a third of the
building at the corner of Larned and
Shelby streets, occupied by the Detroit
Evening Journal and several other ten
ants.
At 10 o'clock this morning the whole
neigA borhood was terrified by fearful
shock, caused by the exploding Of the
boilers in the basement Of the Journal
building. Plate glass windows across
the street, and some of them farther
away, were sattered by the conclusion
and several persons 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 base
meDt, carrying with it at least thirty
persons, who had not the slightest warn
ing of their danger. The cloud Of dust,
which blinded the eyes of the many
spectators Of the horror, was quickly
succeeded by smoke from the fires
which started in the ruins. The work OF
rescue was rushed to tlR utmost all day
or1 20 r,fo-b+ l,,t ,,,,oUroc- hoe r,aoaccar
lily been very slow.
The debris and brick are dumped into
an almost solid mass upon which guam
titles Of water has been poured and into
which comparatively little headway has
been made. The dead thus far taken
from the ruins are:
LIZZIE TAPLEY, aged 20, employed
by Davis & Co.
HENRY WALSH, employed by
Kohlbrand Engraving Company.
JOHN J. REUTER-, apprentice in the
employ Of Dunlap & Co.
GORGE H. SOULB, engraver.
GEORGE SHAW, mailer Detroit
Journal
WILLIE HAYES, 16 years old
mailer Detroit Journel.
JAMES ROSS.
WILLIAM w. DUNLAP.
HENRY JARIERVE, employe, mail.
ing room Of Journal.
UNKNOWN BOY, remains found in
ruins at Ais. Features unrecognizable
Supposed TO be John Bowman, employed
by the KOhlbrand Company.
CARRIE BAUER, aged %, book
keeper in Hill.ers factory; body recov-
cred II p. m.
E. L. RIGER, machinist, family
lives at Oscoda, Mich.
UNIDENTIFIED, slight built man;
body at mOrgue.
WALTER P. SAXBY, machinist
Dunlap & Co.
MICHAEL WARD, steeotyper, Jour
nal
HATTIE HILLIER, employe Hillier's
book bindery; body recovered 1890 a. m
rl0Ve; body gotten out shortly after
ward.
THE INJURED:
Cornelius George, seriously scalded
about head and breast and injured
around hips.
Charles Hergert, employe John Davis
& Co., bruised around head and body
and scalded by acid.
Annie O'Donohue, legs and face
crushed, badly injured in body. Condi-
ton serious.
H. G. Foye, advertising solicitor of
Evening News, cut about head and
face
Albert Weber, pressman on Journal,
badly burned on hand, arm and feet;
scalp lacerated and unconscious; injur-
les probably fatal.
A. D. Lynch, stereOtyper, hand, arm
and face burned; confusion of scalp.
James Holt, 16 years old, employed
by Speaker Printing Company, deep
cash across face.
Martin Meyers. advertising solicitor
Of the News, cut in the neck.
Carrie A. Speck, clerk, cut by flying
glass.
Andrew Hilderschied, machine hand,
for w. c. Jupp, face lacerated by splin-
tered glass.
Thomas Williams, assistant foreman
Journal, struck on head by steam pipe;
injuries not serious.
Frank G. Meiner, artist, badly cut
about head.
Joseph A. Beresford, bookkeeper,
slightly injured.
Lucy A. Holden, stenographer. slight
ly injured.
Margaret L. Robinson, stenOgapher,
slightly injured.
Joseph Winter, bookkeeper, painfully
injured. but not seriously.
Walter OFT, artist, hands and wrists
cut
Herman Miller. Office boy, Calvert
Lith0graphing Company, knocked down
and severely cut by falling glass.
Some thirty tenants and employees in
the building are still missing and there
can be no doubt that most Of these are
lying dead under the debris.
The wrecked portion of the building,
which is owned by the Newberry estate,
was separated from the rest Of the
structure by a fire wall The first
floor of that section was occupied by the
John Davis Company, dealers IN drug
gists specialt.es, and by the Journal
mailing department. The second,
third and fourth floors were occupied
bv the Davis Company, ". W. Dunlap
&, Co.. machinests. and Hitler book
bindeyv. The editorial rooms Of the
Journal are on 1oe fourth floor, but sit
ua+ed beyond the fire wall, and the
staff escaped injury. The Journal ster-
eotyping room, on the fifth floor, was
directly in the path Of the explosion,
and went down in the wreck. A few
had miraculous escapes and came stag
gering from the ruins after the awful
shock, scarce knowing themselves what
had befallen them.
Arthur D. Lynch, a Journal stereo.
typer. who went down with the wreck