The record-union., 1895-11-07
cred and the police were on hand in

|
large numbers.
| Near the top of the ruins one arm and
the leg of a man protruded The re-
mainder of the body was buried beneath
the rubbish. At intervals the arm was
| feebly waved. The rescuers centered
their efforts upon this point and worked
like heroes to effect a release as quickly
| as possible. Many moments elapsed be
fore he was lifted into an ambulance
| At that time it was not determined
whether life was extinct. but he was
| unconscious
Then came the horrors of the calam-
ity. AS the workers dug into the debris
and the air got into it, the furnace fires
| set the debris from the bindery ablaze,
| and the WTeckerS were driven back by
smoke, through which, from time to
time. came muffied cries for help. The
/ firemen worked on heroically. and
streams turned on the blaze soon
checked the fire so that a gang of 200
laborers who had been collected could
get into the debris and pull it into the
street
At $40 Charles Hackett was found in
the third story of the ruins, in the rear,
to which approach was had through the
alley. He reported that there had been
| four or five girls on the floor with him.
He did not seem to be seriously in
! jured.
work in front of the wrecked building
the appraised arm of man was uncov-
cred on the sidewalk, not far from where
| four other bodies were taken out. 1t
was necessary to move huge pieces of a
stone WindOwsill and fragments of ma
chinery before the body could be re-
leased. The victim had escaped the
steam and smoke but his head was
crushed into a shapeIess mass. He was
/ %
nal mailing clerk.
Two more bodies were found at the
northwest corner of the building at l.
! o'clock. making four taken from that
spot They presented an awful sight as
the hot bricks and smoking timbers
We're pulled away. One was sitting bolt
upright with his back to the street The
other was just below him, and had been
caught as he plunged downward head
long. This was Dunlap. The other body
was that of George Shaw, a Journal
| clerk
Another body was found at y 80
L was that of a young man in blouse
and overalls, and it lay under all the
debris on the sidewalk, the head toward
the building and the feet near the curb
| stone. A great block of stone had
fallen upon his head crushing it fat
! The top Of the head burst open, and the
brains We're scattered all about.
The seventh body, apparently that Of
! a machinist, was taken from the side
walk in front of the building soon after
| l o'clock and then the wOrkmen We're
| driven back while a rope was thrown
| over an oVerhanging wall and it was
pulled down by gang of men stationed
! on a building across the street.
Up to > o'clock twelve bodies had
| been recovered, eleven of which had
! been identified. They We're carried to
a vacant storerOom of Mayor Pingree' s
on Jefferson avenue.
In the afternoon the city officers had
| electric lights strung about the place
so that work might go on tonight. The
| hope of finding anyone alive was aban-
dcned, and threatening walls We're
pulled down.
At I o'clock a new gang Of workmen
renewed the work, but up to $50 O'Clock
! this evening no more bodies had been
| recovered. BY tomorrow noon the
| whole mass of ruins Will be explored
and the twenty-seyen or tWenty-eight
! bodies which still remain inthem recov-
| cred
While the work of recovery was at
! its hight two rival undertakers had a
quarrel over the possession of a body.
| While they were pulling at the body
/ the police, whose attention was at
tracted to the inhuman spectacle,
rushed up and separated the men
Another assistant came up with a
| coffin and he put the body in the box
! and commenced screwing down the Id.
Fireman Sullivan interfered. He had
assisted in dragging the body from the
ruins and said the man, althoug n
| burned so as TO be almost unrecOgniz>
able, was still alive. The man in
! charge of the body refused to open the
coffin, and Sullivan. thoroughly en-
ragged. threw everybody aside and un-
| tremendously kicked the coffin lid off,
smashing in one end at the same time.
A hasty examination proved that
! Sullivan was right. The man, for it
was evident that the body was that Of
an adult, was still alive, and he was
taken out and placed in a Marine Hos
pital ambulance. The driver and an
attending physician fastened to the
hospital but the man died on the way
The cause Of the explosion is a mys-
! terry. Thomas Thompson, the engineer,
came out of the wreck painfully in
/ jured His clothes We're half-torn eff
and he bore little resemblance to a
/ human being with the dirt grirae1
/ into his face and hands and the blood
running from a score of cuts.
How did it happen?" he was asked.
Great God. / don't know" was the
! reply. II don't know any more abou- it
| than you do. HOW many were Killed.
! Then he disappeared in the crowd.
! OF the injured. Cornelius George and
/ Annie O'DOnOghue are the most seri-
ously injured
The body of Carrie NJ. Bower, one Of
! the missing, was taken out of the ruins
/ at II o'clock tonight. The body had
! hardly been touched by the flames. The
! body Of the boy taken out of the ruins
! this afternoon has been identified as
! that Of John Bowman. whose name ap-
| pears in the list Of missing.
The latest theory Of the cause of tine
/ disaster is that the oil tank, instead Of
/ the boilers. exploded and ii is believed
/ that this viii be shown when the base
ment is reached.
/ The body Of Hattie Hitler was re-
/ covered shortly after midnight. making
! fourteen in all
DETROIT. Nov. - a. m.-The If
teenth body was recovered about 1870
/ o'clock this CThursday) morning. It
was that of Minnie Liese, aged -, an
employ in Killers -Bindery.
The body Of Michael Ward. aged 3. a
! Journal stereotyper. was dug out at
/ ! 80 o'clock this morning making six
/ teen bodies recovered.
/ WILLIAM y. HART.
Remains of the Lnte Journalist Laid