The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-11-14
AWFUL EXPLOSION.
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startled III 4 fe1rtrl e~xpiosio7- which
took place - the kzADsus q TIE
Journal bziiG51E q 6re-stcrT s1-rztu-s
az b eorrer q Lzr1e5 z16 SheIbT
streets ~oocspie5 b. q number ot has
ness Srns il s56fiioa 10 the 5ournal
Newspaper conp1nT- Plzfs glass
windows across tie street aud sa1ze %
thuse farther array were shattered b.
ths e~01c1ss5oa and several ue~s11s
Hsrs euf b falling glass At the
same instant the ave Soors AID the
roof q that section Of the h15ldi1g
collapsed AID tel 10 tie basement car
vnE with il al Least Efty persons who
had not the Slightest warning Of fhsf-
danger The elo1d Of 6uss uh5eh
Blinded the ey@ q the zmzzed spscta-
tors Of the horror Wasqg5cklT followed
b. smoke frou THE Sres which started
IN The ruins TIE work q resc-e vas
pushed TO fhe usnost ali 6aT ard to
night hat progress Is necessarily sloE.
TIE Ersckea portio1 Of the buildi1g
Ehieh IL oHned BIZ the NewbuU
estate uzs separated from TIE rest Of
the structure by > FIRE usll TIE FIRST
4o0E Of nat section vas oecupsed 81
The Davis company, dealers in drug
zists s~pecialtie& aud b. the Journals
mailing department The second
third AID fourth Hoors were occupied
bg the DAVIS company. ". u Dunlap
4 Co. zzehinistS and Hitler book
biDderr. The editorial rooms Of the
Journal are on the tO1rth 5oor bat sit-
uzted beyood the fire wall and the
sia9 escaped injury
The Journals stereo;ypinz room. on
The Eth ho0r. was directly in the path
Of the explosion and vent down ia the
wreck a few had n~irzeulOUz esez pes
and came staggering from the ruins
after the awful shock. scarce knowing
themselves what had happened
Prom the lists Of tenants and I'm
plOyes secured IL seems certain that
fifty persons in al were in the col
lspsed section, most OF whom ara un-
dOubtedly lost
Ca~relessness j. undoubtedly the
cause Of The disaster. but where the
responsibility rests Is a. yet problem
aticzl Thomas Thounzs0n. the engi-
neer, was painfully injured He said
be could assign no rezsO for the *
plosiOn- City Boiler Inspector Ne
GregO- SAYS he inspected the boilers
last Angus; aud had found them up ID
the requirements
As dead bodies are being taken from
the ruins and identified the scene IS
most heart rendiDr- In addition to
the large number known 10 be dead
nineteen persons have been rescued
some of them badly injured Over a
dozen dead bodies have already been
taken from the ruins and at least TWEEN
t. more are undoubtedly still buried
Thtrty-three Bodies Recovered
DETEOIT. Mich, Nov THE work
Of recovering the bodies Of the victims
of the Journal boiler explosion con
tinned all day to-day. BY tomorrow
morning all the debris win have been
explored and the last of the bodies re-
covered
Al 9 o'clock the searchers uncovered
the nineteenth body II was ii OF
Jennie Neubauer. one Of Killers en-
ployes- Five minutes later the body
Z Of Bertha Weidbusch was dug out and
al tea minutes past . o'clock still
another girls body was recovered. 50
badly burned that It could not be rec
Z ognized
A few minutes before 3 o'clock the
ghastliest find Of the day was made
II was the trunk Of a woman The
body was bloody. the arms and feet
burned of. Tue head was found AZ
some little distance from the trunS,
completely severed BIZ a falling tim
Der. About 4 o'clock three bodies
were found together under the
debris in the alley in the
rear of the Journal building. There
were two men and a girl in the group
The woman laid wedged between the
other She was Lue Pretz ap-
prentice iE the machine shop of the
Rogers 1ypogrzph supply Co In her
hand She still held the small bit of ma
ehinery with which she was working.
ON either side OF her were bradley and
Derby. the carpenters who were
caught while making some alterations
10 the building.
Up to 5 o'clock this afternoon every
body taken from the ruins hal been
identified by friends and relatives
One body was that of a young woman
sitting bolt upright in a chair as she
had been when the explosion took
pl.ee. She had been suffOcated
The cause of the frightful catastrO-
phe was settled beyond all question
this morning when the workers on the
ruins got down 10 the boiler. The ex-
plosion was caused by q dry boiler.
Thirty-three bodies in all have been
taken from under the mass of debris