The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-07
SHE CALLED FOR A PRIEST
a HORRIBLE SCENE AZ AN EXPLo-
SION IN DETROIT.


Near the Top of the Ruins, Not Far From
Annie O'DonDell, Was Protruding the
Aim and Leg of Man-At Times 1t
Feebly Moved Workers Driven Back by
A the Flames.
N Detroit, Nov. 6.-The battery of boil
ers in the building of the Evening Jour
nal exploded at o'clock this morning,
wrecking the buildings, Nos, As and AZ
West Larner street, killing at least for
Nty persons, wounding twenty others
emore or less seriously, and causing
smoney loss of $6O,OOO
3# The list of identified dead is as fol-
lows: Lizzie Dapley, aged twenty, en-
ployed by Davis & Co.. Henry Walsh,
Y boy employed by Kohlbrand Engraving
Y Co.; John j. Reuth, aged seventeen, an
apprentice in the employ of Dunlap &
Co.; George Shaw, aged sixteen, mailer
n on the Detroit journal; Willie Halves,
agad sixteen, mailer on the Detroit Jour
nal; James Ross, stereotyper on the
journal; William w. Dunlay, of Dunlap
n Rogers Typograph Supply Co.; Henry
ig Laviere, mailing clerk, Detroit Journal;
Walter p. Saxby, machinist, emplayed
Mby Dunlap & Co.; E. L. Reiger, machin-
4 dst, employed by Dunlap & Co. The
N body of the twelfth victim is that of a
N boy unknown.
& The missing: George ]. Miller, Kate
n II a
Il ME Liese, Ana Uhlik, Rose Morgan,
X Bertha Weidbush, Anna Weidbush, John
Breitenbacher, Adolph Schrieber, Jen-
ME Neugaur Charles Lind, boy; Car
rie Bauer, bookkeeper; Rosa Lichten-
a berg, John Koerber, eleven employees of
II Killers bookbindery; John Bowman,
Il employed by Kohlbrand Engraving Co.;
Michael Ward, stereotyper, Detroit Jour
nal; Kittie Leonard employed by Davis
III & Co.; Nelson Lecroix, employed in
Journal engine room Miss Lue Fretz,
II apprentice, Dunlap & Co.; James Thorn
as, machinist, Dunlap & Co.; John s.
L Derby, carpenter, working at Dunlap &
N Co.'S; Joseph S. Bradley, carpenter;
Ernest Perkins, mail clerk, Detroit Jour
4 nal; John Gordon, Lizzie Taylor, Eugene
81 Wilson, John Campbell, William Rey-
4 nolds.
The list of injured is:
Il Cornelius George, foreman of Jour
Il nal mailing room, seriously injured in
about head and breast and injured in
\ hips; Charles Hergert employed at John
n Davis & Co.'S, bruised around head and
body and scalded by acid; Annie O'Don-
oghue, legs and face crushed, and badly
n injured; Albert Weber, pressman on
journal, badly burned on hand, arm and
4 feet, scalp lascerated, unconscious, prob
/ ably fatal; A. D. Lynch, stereotyper on
\ Journal, hand, arm and fact burned
confusion of scalp injuries not serious;
John Holt, aged sixteen, employed by
Speaker Printing company deep cash
across face, other injuries, but not seri-
ously; Martin Moores, cut in the neck
/ mot serious; Miss Carrie Arpeck, face
cut by glass; Andrew Hilderscheid, lac
Grated by splintered glass; Thomas Will
/ liams, assistant foreman of Journal
/ composing room, struck in head by
steam pipe, injuries not serious; Frank
! G. Mefner, artist, Calvert Lithographing
Co., seriously cut about head by glass;
Joseph A. Beresford, ibookkeeper for P.
F. Collier Co., slightly injured; Lucy A.
Holden, stenographer, Collier & Co,
slightly injured; Margaret L. Robinson,
stenographer, Collier & Co., slightly in
jured; Joseph Winter, bookkeeper Davis
& Co., painfully injured but not seri-
ously; Walter OFT, artist, Calvert Litho-
graphing Co., hands and wrists cut;
Herman Miller, Office boy Calvert Litho-
graphing Co., knocked down and severe
ly cut by falling glass; T. Thompson,
engineer Journal, badly cut and bruised.
The Detroit Journal was located at
Shelby and Larned streets, occupying
for it's main offices a seventy-foot front
on Larned street. Next east Of its
building and in part of the same block
were two twenty-five fronts, which con-
stituted the scene of the disaster One
of these, No. As, was wholly occupied by
John Davis & Co., saleratus manufae-
turers and dealers in, grocers' 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 company, and w. w.
Dunlap's agency for Rogers Typograph
company. On the third and fourth
floors wereJ. George Hillier's book bind
cry and on the top floor was the Jour
nal stereotyping room.
There were three stereotypers at work,
about thirty girls in the book bindery,
besides the proprietor, a machinist and
several others in the Typograph COM
pany shop several engravers and as
sistants in the Klohlbrand company's
rooms and force Of clerks on the
ground floor, the mailing room.
There were six persons in the Davis |
building. In the basement were the en-
gineer, fireman and several pressmen.
The first intimation the neighborhood. |
got of the disaster was tremendous |
report followed by a binding cloud |
Of debris, smoke and steam and be- |
fore this had cleared away the whole |
five floors and the peoeple working on |
them were in an inextricable mass of |
wreckage. The force of the explosion |
had thrown down the wall between |
Nos. As and AZ Larned street A heavy |
fire wall separated this wall from the |
main building of the Journal company |
Although several holes were blown /
through it this wall remained strong |
Firemen were there in minute The |
whole down town division of the ship
ment followed by volunteers from the