The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-07
TVBNTY-EIGHG BODIES.
Scenes Of Horror and Pathos
at the Site Of Detroit's
Calamity.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. z, 1S95.-The
progress of the men working onthe runs
resulting from yesterdays terrible boiler
explosion was very slow after two O'Clock
this morning and from that hour until
six only two more bodies were dug out
of the debris. They were Adolph Schie-
Der, aged "a, brennan of Killers bind
cry, and John Gordon; aged 81, stereo-
.typer, Detroit Journal"
A large force of men were put to work
about seven o'clock, and while the work
is necessarily slow, it is progressing more
rapidly.
AT nine o'clock the searchers uncovered
the nineteenth body. 1t was that of Jen-
ME Nenbauer, one of Killers employees.
Five minutes later the body of Bertha
Weidbusch was dug out and ten minutes
past nine still another girls body vas
recovered. It was badly burned and was
not recognized.
The cause of yesterdays frlghtful ca
tastrophe was settled beyond all question
this morning when the workers on the
ruins got down to the boiler. The ex-
plosion was caused by a dry boiler.
More than 100 men. all who can be
worked to advantage, are at work this
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yet the tomb of fifteen unfortunate men
and women. They talk as they work and
the crowd talks with them.
Suddenly a little group of workers hush
and to renov timbers and
brick with more care. They have found
the foot of a girl. Quickly the news
travels; the laborers talk in whispers,
the drivers cease to urge their horses
IN loud fopac or6 tho fbou co ndc of Sn6r-
tators are stilled.
The word is whispered from lip to lip
that number twenty-five has been found
and that it is the body of a girl. The
little knot of workers around her fill
baskets with rubbish as they uncover the
body and quickly covered the mangled
and disfigured remains with a blanket.
Out in the crowd, kept back by the po-
lice, a woman cries:-"I kno it is my
girl; my God, can she be alive.'
At another point a little boy is ST
iently sobbing and murmuring, my sis
ter; oh, my sister,"
The remains are placed on a stretcher
and carried away to the temporary
morgue. AS the stretcher borne by four
policemen turns the corner the driver
yell t their horses, the foremen urge the
men on to the awful task of finding an
other victim; the sightseeing crowds talk
loud again and speculate on who will
be Number 26."
By eleven o'clock twenty-five bodies in
all had been taken from under the mass
of debris and three more had been added
to the list of the identified dead. They
were:-
John E. Breitenbacher, aged q, an en-
ploye of Killers bookbindery; Rose Nor
gan and Kittie Leonard.
One of the two unidentified bodies, sup,
posed to be that of a girl, was identified
by John Koeber shortly after eleven
O'Clock as that of his son John,a boy of
IL years of age, who was employed at
Killers.
mo 26' proved to be the body of Err
nest Parkins, a boy of fifteen, who was
employed in the Journal, mailing room.
The body was found crowded against the
Shortly after this body vas ST. taken out,
o'clock they had not been dug out.
Fireman Robert Henderson Of Truck
feet deep while working in the ruins this
morning. He received a bad cash over
the eye and was in a stunned condition
when hauled out. He was removed to the
Emergency Hospital to lave his wounds
dressed