Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-15
BURIED IN DEBRIS.
Workins-Girls and Others Victims 0
q Poiler-EXplOSiOn.
SEVEN DEATHS WILL BE RESULT
rour Persons Killed Outright. Three
Missing, and Four More or Less
Seriously Injured - AgOnixing
scenes-Ruin and Flames.

FALL RIVER, MASS, June IA ca
tastrophe which created the greatest ex-
element I'm this city since the Granite
Mill fire occurred this morning al the
Langley loom-harness shop. on county
street. three-story wooden building own
ed by Henry ]. Langley. hfty-horse-
power boiler exploded in the rear part OF
the basement. blowing out the sides OF
the building. knocking away the supports
and allowing the upper floor to settle in
a mass OF ruins.
Fire started in the debris and began TO
burn briskly. The firemen made heroic
efforts to rescue the imprisoned work peo'
ple. of whom there were seventeen. ShrieKs
from the girls i'm the ruins were mihsied
with the agonlzed cries of their friends,
who had hurried to the scene when the
first news OF the catastrophe spread. AM
bulanee calls were sent out hurriedly' and
every physician who could be reached was
sent at once to the scene. The offlces ana
houses In the vicinity were turned INTO
temporary hospitals.
AT 9 o'clock the badly charred ana
scarcely recognizable body of woman was
hauled from the ruins. The fire had then
been quenched. but IL was still shoulder
ing and the work OF rescuing could go on
only with difficulty. Up to noon the WORK
of search and rescue was carried on amld
great excitement, and at that hour IL was
found that four persons had been killed.
three more were missing, and four mad
been seriously injured
KILLED AND INJURED.
The killed are Leila Horton. aged IL;
Adele DUDE, aged IS: Robert Murray. aged
p. and Adolph Beltfuiell, aged 80
Missing-Angelina Mccoy, August Zenc-
KEEL, and Philip Smith.
Injured-Thomas Bury, aged 10; Mamie
Desroches, Joseph Mutual, Annie Hurst,
and Mary Partridge.
Two are probably fatally Injured. ana
of the missing ones little was known.
The first reports said thirty had been
killed, and IL was not until the list was
given out By the book-keeper that any
thing definite could be determined.
EXPLOSION TERRIFIC
The explosion shook every building with
I'm half a mile. 1t wrecked the Stafford
mill windows on the east side. and In less
than three minutes every operative was
out of the building There is a great deal
of wreckage among the mill machine
ry. The force Of the explosion was enough
to send bricks through the Whole "iplh
OF the mill from the east to the west
sides. The boiler was torn apart In the
middle. and the furnace part was blown
into the building.
Narrow escapes were numerous and mar
vellOus.
II is quite certain that seven deaths at
least will result.
Mr. Langley says the boiler was only
three and a half years old. Napoleon Leo
pod, the fireman and engineer. escaped
without injury. There was plenty Of wa
ter in the boiler. he says. He has been
arrested.
The total pecunlary loss will be about
$4,000
BOILER NOT LATELY INSPECTED.
The engineer says the boiler had not
been officially inspected in five years. so
far as he could remember. although 1t was
repaired not long ago. He has been an
engineer for eight years.