The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
WRECKED BY AN EXPLOSION
Fatal Disaster in the Detroit Evening
Journal Building.
FORTY PERSONS AXE KILLED
Twelve Bodies Have Been Recovered
from the Ruins-Iist Of the Dead,
tho Missing and Injurcd-The
Building Collapsed.

ing Journal exploded at o'clock this
morning, wrecking the buildings NOS
As and AZ West Larned street, killing
at least forty persons, wounding twen-
ty others more or less seriously and
causing money loss of $4,000.
List Of tho Dead.
The list of identified dead is as fol-
lows: Lizzie Dappley, aged 20. en-
ployed by Davis and company.
Henry Walsh, a boy. employed by
Kohlbrand Engraving company.
John ]. Reuter-, aged II, an appren-
tice in the mploy Of Dunlap and COM
pany.
George H. Soule, engraver
George Shaw. 16 years old, mailer De-
troit Journal.
Willie Hawes, 16 years old, mailer De-
troit Journal.
James Ross. stereotyper. Detroit
Journal.
William Dunlap. of Dunlap, Rogers
typograph supply company.
+, Henry Larivere, mailing clerk, De-
troit Journal.
! Walter p. SaXby, machinist, employed
by Dunlap and company
Z. L. Reiger, machinist, employed by
Dunlap and company.
The body of the twelfth victim re.
covered Is that of a boy unidentified as
yet.
l. Tho Missing.
| George ]. Miller.
| Kate Hitler. .forewoman; Hattie Mill
| er, Minnie Liese, Anna Uhljk, Rose
Morgan. Bertha Weidbush, Anna Weld
bush, John Breltenbecher. Adolph
Schreiber. Jennie Neugaur, Charles
Lind, Carrie Bauer, Rosa Bretz, Emma
L,chtenberg, John Koeber, all employees
| of Killers Book Bindery
John Bowman, 165 Chestnut street,
employed by Kohler Engraving COM
.pany.
. Michael Ward. S27 Seventh street,
stereotyper, Detroit Journal; Kittie
Leonard, Plumber avenue, employed by
Davis e. Co.; Nelson IJacroix, employed
| in Journal engine room; Miss Lue
street, apprentice, Dunlap & Co.; James
Thomas, 800 Junction avenue. machin-
! lst. Dunlap & Co.; John s. Derby, 440
! Sixteenth street, carpenter, working at
Dunlap & Co.'S; Joseph Bradley, car
penter 29S Abbott street, married, two
children; Earnest Parklns, 45 Beech
street, mail clerk, Detroit Journal; John
Gordon, Lizzie Taylor, Eugene Wilson,
John Campbell. William Reynolds.
The List Of Injured.
Cornelius George. foreman Journal
mailing room, seriously; Charles Her
gert, employed at John Davis and conf
pany's, bruised around head and body
and scalded by acid; Annie O'Donog-
hue. condition serious: II. =. 10Y, cut
about head and face: Albert Weber,
pressElan oli Journal, probably fatally.
A. d. Lynch, stereOtyper. injuries not
serious; James Holt. 16 years old. en-
ployed by Speaker Peynton company.
not serious: Martin Meyers, not seri-
ous; Miss Carrie A. Speck, not serious;
Andrew Hilderschid, not serious;
Thomas Williams, assistant foreman
Journal composing room, not serious:
Frank G. Meiner. artist. seriously cut
about head with glass: Joseph A. Ber-
esford, bOokkeeper, slightly injured:
Lucy A. Holden, stenographer, slightly
injured; Margaret A. Holden, stenogra-
pher, slightly injured: Margaret L.
Robinson, stenographer. slightly in
jured; Joseph Winter, bookkeeper. not
seriously; Walter OFT. artist, not seri-
Gus; Herman Miller, office boy. knocked
down and severely cut by falling glass:
T. Thompson, engineer Journal, badly
cut and bruised.
The Detroit Journal was located at
Shelley and Larned streets, occupying
for its main Office a seventy-foot front
on Larned street. Next east Of it's
building and in part of the same block
were Nwo twa'sty-foot fronts. which
constitute lie scene Of the disaster
One OF '.hege, No. As, was wholly Occu-
r.ed by John Davis & Co.. salaratus
manufacturers, and dealers in grocers'
supplies, while In the basement of the
other were two boilers which exploded.
Just above the boiler room, on the
first floor was the Journals mailing
rCcm. The second floor was occupied
by The Kolhlbrand Engraving company
ard w. w. Dunlap's agency for Rog-
ers Typcgraph supplies. On the third
ard fourth floors were j. George Mill
er's book bindery, ard the top floor
was tine Journals stereotyping room.
There were three stereOtyperS at work
ca the Journals floor, about thirty
girls in the book bindery, besides the
proprietor, a machinist and several
others In the typOgraph supply shop.
several engravers and assistants in the
Kohlorand cOmpany's room and force
of clerks on the ground floor, the mail
ing rccm.
There were six persons in the Davis
building. In the basement were the
engineer ard several press men.
Intimation of Trouble.
The first intimation the neighborhood
got of the disaster was from the tre-
mendous report followed by a binding
haforo th;s Ia ,1nnunS , .S .t'a anu
e.lote e..o r .r,s i,su ~. cleared away tne wnoie
.n nNe nools anu .me people worklng upon
Thn 1rei, ,mo me,e 80 ~ ~, one 1nass OF wreckage.
i me ,o,uc .ta Iii VI ne % eMplosion hau tnrown
uoTn .me wan ] oelwesh numDers 40 ana
- a .arneu ~, :. s.reet @ % anu tne Jolsts whlcn
ing themselves away from the adjon-
ing war,; w,,,, "a f neavy nre wall separated
@ tis Tn,'i on .ne MAN puiiolng OF
the journal company. The weight
OF tnlS was SuIIlClent TO Withstand the