The record-union., 1895-11-07

DETROIT CIich), Nov. 6.-At three
minutes to o'clock this morning the
battery of boilers in the building of the
Evening Journal exploded, wreckiCg
the buildings f.. and AZ West Larned
street, killing at least forty persons
wounding twenty others more or less
seriously, and causing a money loss o1
$60,0 ,000.
The following were the casualties
The list of the identified dead is as fol
lows: Lizzie Dappley, aged l., en-
ployed by Davis & Company; Henry
Walsh, a boy, employed by Kohl-Brand
Engraving Company; John ]. Reuster
aged II, an apprentice in the employ OF
the Dunlap Company; George H. Souje
engraver; George Shaw, 16 years Old
mailer in the Journal; Willie Hawes, 1C
years old. mailer in the Journal; James
Ross. stereOtyper in the Journal; VIM
w. Dunlap, of the Dunlap Rogers Ty-
biographical Supply Company; Henry
1.ariverie the mailing clerk in the De-
trOit Journal; Walter P. SaXby, ma
chinist employed by Dunlap & Com
pany; L. Reiger, machinist employed
by Dunlap & Company. The body of
the twelfth victim recovered is that of a
10y unidentified as yet
The missing are: George J. Hitler,
Kate Hitler (fOreWOman), Hattie Hitler,
Minnie Liese, Anna Uhlik, Rose Nor
san. Bertah Weidbush, John Breiten-
becher. AdOlph Schreiber Jennie Neu-
gaur, Charles Lind Carrie Bauer
(bookkeeper), Rosa BretZ, Emma Iich-
enberg. John Koerber, all employees OF
Killers Book -Bindery; John Bowman.
400 Chestnut street, employed by Kohl
Brand Engraving Company; Michael
Ward, stereotyper in Detroit Journal;
Kitty Leonard, Plumber avenue. en-
ployed by Davis e Company; Nelson
LacrOiX, employed in Journal engine
room; Miss Lue FretZ aged % 93g
Eighteenth street, apprentice in Dunlap
Il Company; John S. Derby. 40 Six
teenth street, carpenter working at
Dunlap & Company; James Thomas
34 Junction avenue, machinist n
Dunlap q Company; Joseph Bradley
carpenter, 2S9 Abbott street, married
two children; Ernest Parkins, -
Beech street, mail clerk in Detroit
Journal; John Gordan, Lizzie Taylor,
Eugene Wilson, John Campbell Will
lam Reynolds
The list OF injured are: Cornelius
George, foreman Journal mailing room,
seriously Scalded about head and
breast and injured around hips: Charles
Hergert, emplOye at John Davis &,
Co, bruised around head and body and
scalded; Annie O'Donoughue. legs and
face crushed, badly injured on body.
condition serious; II. G. Foye. cut about
head and face; Albert Weber. press
man on Journal, badly burned on hand.
arm and feet, scalp lacerated and un-
conscious, injuries probably fatal; A.
j. Lynch, stereOtyper hand arm and
face burned, confusion of scalp, injuries
not serious: James Holt Is years old.
employed by Speaker Printing Com
pany. deep cash across face. other in
JurieS, but not serious; Martin Meyers.
cut in the neck not serious: Miss Car
RE \. Speck. face cut by flying glass:
Andrew Hilderscheid. lacerated by
Splintered glass; Thomas Williams. as
sistant foreman Journal composing
room, struck on head by steam pipe.
injuries not serious; Frank G.. Meiner.
artist in Calvert Lithographing Com
pany. seriously cut about head with
glass; Joseph \. BeresfOrd. bookkeeper
IL 2. f. Collier & Co, slightly injured
Lucy A. Holden, 4G6 La Fayette av-
enue, stenographer in p +. Collier &
Co.. slightly injured; Margaret L.
Robinson. stenOgTapher in p F. Col
lieT & Co. slightly injured: Joseph
Winter, bookkeeper in Davis & Co.
painfully injured, but not seriously:
Walter OFT. artist in Calvert Litho-
graphing Company hands and wrist
cut; Herman Miller Of Calvert Litho-
graphing Company. knocked down and
severely cut by falling glass; T. ThOmp-
son, engineer of Journal, badly cut and
bruised.
The Detroit Journal was located at
Shelby and Larned streets. occupying
for its main Offices q seventy foot
frontage on LaTned street Next east
Of its building and part of the same
block, We're two twenty-foot fronts
which constituted the scene of the dis
aster. one Of these. No. 43. was wholly
occupied by John Davis & Co. SAHARA
tus manufacturers and dealers in gro
GERS supplies while in the basement OF
the other were the two boilers which
exploded.
Just above the boiler-room On the
first floor was the Journals mailing
room. The second floor was occupied
by the Kohl-Brand Engraving Com
pany and w. ". Dunlap's agency for
Rogers typogra phical supplies The
third and fourth floors We're J. George
Killers book bindery and the top floor
vas the Journals stereOtyping room.
There We're three stereotypers at work
in the Journals floor about thirty girls
in the book bindery, besides the propri-
ctOr, a maChinist and several others
in the typographical supply shop, sev-
eral engravers and assistants in the
Kohl-Brand Company's rooms. and a
force Of clerks in the ground floor mail
ing room. There were six persons in
tie Davis building. In the basement
were the engineer, fireman and several
pressmen
The first intimation the inhabitants
got of the danger was from the tre-
mendous report, followed by a binding
cloud Of debris, smoke and steam. and
before this had cleared away the whole
five floors and the people working or
them We're in one ineXtricable wreck
The force Of the explosion had thrown
down the wall between - and ~ Lar
ned street, and the ioists which rested
on 1t came tumbling down. tearing
themselves away from the main build
Ing. The heavy fire wall separated this
building from the main building of tho
Journal Company The weight of thif
was sufficient to withstand the shock ol
the explosion. and although several
hcleS We're blown through it the wall
remained strong.
The firemen We're there in a minute
from the next corner. Near the top An
ME ODonoghue was found. her head a
mass OF bloody flesh, from which faint
cries for a priest were constantly emit
ted. She was carried off to the hospital
Then began the narrowing details Of
the awful calamity. one poor fellow.
stunned and helpless, lay just upon the
e0ge of the pile He was taken out
and passed to volunteer helpers. Then
another, whose feet We're pinioned. was
reached, but it was found that he could
nor be released. Constant digging final
" effected his release. and he was
dragged out and placed in one of the
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