The morning times., 1895-11-07
LONG DEATH ROLL
Continued From First Page.

keeper. Davis & Company, painfully in
Jured, but not seriously; Walter Oft. artist,
Calvert Littographng Company. hands and
wrists cut: Herman Miller, office boy,
| Calvert Lithographing Company, knocked
down and severely cut by falling glass;
I. Thompson, engineer, Journal, badly cut
and bruised.
SCENE OF THE DISASTER.
| The Detroit journal was located at
Shelby and Larned streets, occupying for
It's main offices a seventy-foot front on
| LarneC street Next east OF lis building
| and in part cf the same block were two
| twenty-foot fronts, which constituted the
| scene of the disaster. One OF these. No.
! 45, was wholly occupied by John Davis &
| Co.. saleratus manufacturers and dealers
| in grocers' supplies, while In the base
ment OF the other were the two boilers
which exploded.
| Just above the boiIer-roOm, on the first
| floor. was the Journals mailing room.
| The second floor was occupied by the
kohlhrand Engra wing Company and w.
w Dunlap's agency for Rogers typo
| graphic supplies. On the third nd fourth
| floors We're j. George Hillers book bind
| cry, and the top. floor was the Journals
| stereotyping room. There were three
stercotypers at work on The Journals
| floor. about thirty girls in the book bind
cry, besides the proprietor. machinist,
| and several others In the typOgrnphic sup
ply shop. seycral engravefs a md assist ants
in the Kotibrand Company's rooms. and
a force of clerks on the ground Eoor, the
mailing room.
There were six persons In the Davis
building. In the basement were the
engineer, fireman. and several pressmeu.
WRECKED IN A SECOND.
The first intimation the neighborhood
got of the disaster was from the tremendous
report, followed by a binding cloud OF
debris. smoke and steam and before this
had cleared away the whole five floors
ana the people working upon them We're in
one inextricabie mass of wreckage. The
force of the explosion lad thrown down the
wall between Nos. 45 and Al Larned
street. and sthc joists which rested on it
came tumbling down, tearing themselves
away from the adjoining wall.
A heavy fire wall separated this build
ing from the main building of the Journal
Company. The weight of this was suf-
ficicnt to Withstand the shock OF the ex-
plosion, although several holes were blown
through it, the wall remained strong.
FireInen We're there In minute from the
next corner. The whole downtown di-
vision of the department followed by volun-
teers from the crowd that collected started
to dig into the ruins.
Near the top Annie O'Donoghue was
found. her head mass of bloody flesh,
from which faint cries for priest were
emitted constantly. She was carried to
The hospital.
Then came the narrowing spectacle OF
the awful calamity. One poor fellow.
stunned and helpless, lay just upon the
edge of the pile. He was taken out and
passed to volunteer helpers. Then an
other who feet were pinioned, was reached.
but it was found that he could not he re-
s-r,4.
his release and he was placed In one of
the ambulauees. Thousands of people
gathered and the police We're on hand in
large number.
BURIED BENEATH RUBBISH.
Near the top Of the ruins. enc arm and
the leg of man prutruded. The re-
mainder of the body was buried beneath
the rubbish. AT intervals the arm was
feebly moved. The rescucrS centered their
efforts upon this point and worked brayely
TO effect a release as quickly as possible.
Many moments elapsed before he was
lifted into an ambulance. At that time
it was not determined whether life was
extinct. but he was unconscious.
As the workers dug into the debris and
the air got into it, the furnace fires
set the debris from the bindery abIaze,
and the wrcckers were driven back by smoke
through which from trHe to time. came
lnuIIlPu Cries lOI utlD. Inc IRE men
worked an heruicaliy, and streams turned
on the blaze soon checked the fire sn
that q gang of coo laborers who had been
collected could get into the debris and
pull it into the street
Charles Hackett was found in the thir1
story of the ruins In the rear to which
approach was had through the alley He
reported there had been four or five
girls on the finor with him, He did not
Soon 10 he seriously Djurpu
As the diggers continued their work In
front of the wrecked building the upraised
arm of q man was uncovered on the side
walk not far from where four other bodies
were taken out
CRUSHED UNDER STONE.
It was necessary &c move tuge pieces
machinery before the body could be re-
leased. The victim had escaped the steam |
aud smoke, but his head was crushed into |
a shapeless mass. He was identified as |
Henry I.ariyieFe, Journal mailing CLERK. |
Two more bodies We're found at the |
same corner. making four taken from that |
spot. They presented all awful sight as |
the hot bricks aud smoking timbers were |
pulled away One was sitting bolt IN |
right with his back to the street, the other |
was Just below him. aud had been caught |
as he plunged downward headlong. This |
was Dunlap, the typcgrapl supply dealer, |
The other body was that of George Shaw, |
a journal elers.
Another body was found half an hour |
later. IT was that of young man in
blouse and oyeralls and 1t lay under all |
the debris on the Sidewalk. A great block
of stone hadfalfen upon bis head, crushing |
it flat.
The seventh body, apparently that of |