The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-07


DETROIT, Mich, Nov. Ga gaping
rent nearly forty feet wide from top to
bottom of a five-story business block,
dozen dead bodies recovered; score CT
persons injured and more than that num-
Der missing, with certainty that many
more dead bodies are beneath the ruins
such are the results of an explosion Whicn
startled the city today and totally wreck
ed about a third of the building at the
corner of Larned and Shelby streets, &C.
cupied by the Detroit Evening journal
and several other tenants.
At o'clock this morning, the whole
neie'hbornood was terrlned uy fearful
shock caused by the explosion OF the
boller in the basement OF the journal
building. Plate glass windows across ule
street and some OF those farther away
were shattered by the conclusion ana
several persons were cut by falling glass.
At the same instant, the nVe floors ana
roof of that section of the building col
/ lapsed and fell to the basement, carrying
( with it at least fifty persons who had
| NOT the slightest warning of their danger.
/ The cloud of dust which blinded the
! eyes of the amazed spectators OF the
/ horror was quickly succeeded by smoke
| from fires which started in the runs.
/ Ine w OTh VI
was rushed to the utmost all day and
| tonight, but progress has been necessarily
The debris of brick are dumped into an
almost solid mass upon which quantities
! of water has been poured, and into winch
comparatively little Roadway has been
The dead thus far taken from the ruins
/ are:
Lizzie Tapley, aged 20, employed by
| Davis & Co.
Henry Walsh employed by Kohl Brand
! Engraving company
John j. Reuter-, an apprentice, in the
| employ of Dunlap & Co.
George H. Soule, engraver.
George Shaw, mailer Detroit Journal.
Willis Halves, 16 years old, mailer De
troit Journal.
James Ross.
William w. Dunlap.
Henry Larivere, employee mailing room
An unknown boys remains were found
! in the ruins at AIS. Features unrecog-
| nizable supposed to be John Bowman,
employed by Kohl & Co.
Carrier Bauer, aged %, bookkeeper in
Killers bindery, body recovered at II
p. m.
The Injured.
Cornelius George, seriously sscalded
about head and breast and injured
around hips.
Charles Hegert employee of John Davis
& Co, bruised around head and body and
scalded by acid.
Annie O'Donaghue, legs and face
crushed, badly injured on body. Condi-
ton serious.
H. l. Foye, advertising solicitor Even
ing News. cut about head and face.
Albert Weber, pressman Of the journal,
badly burned on hands, arms and feet;
scalp lacerated and unconscious; injuries
probably fatal
a. D. Lynch, a stereotyper. hands, arms
and face bruised; confusion of the scalp.
James Holt, 16 years DID, employed by
Speaker. Printing company, deep cash
across face.
Martin Meyers, advertising solicitor of
News, cut in the neck.
Carrie a. Speak, clerk, cut by flying
Andrew Halberschild, machine hand
w. G. Jupp, face lacerated by splintered
glass.
Thomas W. Williams, assistant foreman
of Journal. struck on head by a steam
, pipe; injuries not serious.
Frank Greinder artist, badly cut about
i, head.
Joseph A. Beresford, bookkeeper, Slight
ly injured.
Lucy a. Holden, stenographer, slightly
injured.
Joseph Winter bookkeeper, painfully in.
jured and serious.
Walter OFT, artist hands and wrists
cut.
Herman Miller, of the Calvert Litho-
graphing company, knocked down an6
severely cut by failing glass.
Some thirty tenants and employees il
; the building are still missing, and there
can be no doubt that most of them are
. lying dead under the debris.
The Building.
! The wrecked portion of the building
! which is owned by the Newbery estate
,, was separated from the rest of the struc
the section was occupied by the Johr
Davis company, dealers in druggists
specialties, and by the Journal mailing
department.. The second third ant
company W. ". Dunlap & Co., machine
lists. and Killers book bndery The
5 editorial rooms of the Journal are on tht
| fourth floor, but situated beyond the fir,
{ wall and the staff escaped injury.
; The Journal stereotype room on the
D fifth floor was directly in the path of tn,
explosion and went down in the wreck
8 A few had miraculous escapes and cam,
staggering from the ruins after the awfti
shock, scarcely knowing themselves ant
) what had befallen them.
4 Arthur D. Lynch, a Journal stereo
typer who went down with the wreck from
entirely conscious. He was under steam
table preparing matriX. When he fei
Z he was protected by the great iron table
, and could plainly hear the rescuers q
work until they reached him.
NJ Jacobs, paper dealer, who had beel
in Killers bindery had just left III
! building when the crash came. u
, thought there must nave been twent,
Z girls and four or five boys in the binder;
besides George J. Hitler. the proprieto1
of whom nothing has been seen or hear
Z of since the accident.
Others Missing.
Charles Hackett was found in .he ruin
: in the rear, to which approach was ha
3 through the alley. Before he was re
7 moved in the ambulance lie reported Tier
\ had been four or I1ve girls on the ioo
4 with him. Charles Herbert, I.acEer
, employed by John Davis 4. Co., was O
7 the third floor when the explosion oc
: Cured.
3 at felt the crash and was surrcunde
: by flying debris and before I conld real
ize what had happened. the vinegar bar
rels and acid carboys came down on us
8 ] do not know how / got out kno1
: I breathed the fresh air after 4 scrambl
among the ruins and knew I had es
caped. There were four others in tn
o building. that know Of, Alexande
: and Joseph Winter, the booklSeeper. d
not know who got out alive
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