The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-11-09

Tho Detroit Journal Building Is
Wrecked.
seventeen Bodies Have Been Taken from
the Huins-ff All the Missing Arc
Dead, tho List May Reach
Forty-asnny Injured.


plcdcd. wreclsIng the buildings Nos. as
and AZ West l.arned street, killing AT
icast 40 persons. wounding 20 others
more or less seriously and causing n
money loss OF 100000. The list of idea-
tificd dead is MS follows:
LlEzlc Dapplcy. aged 20. employed BY
Davis Il Co. Henry Walsh. boy. en-
ploysa ~ kohlbiaEd Engraving company.
John J Reuter-. aged II. an apprentice Ia
tisc einpi0y VI Dunlap < 60; George H..
Sonlc engrayer; George Shaw. ~ years old,
mailer. Detroit Journal. Willie Halves, Is
years old. mailer. Detroit Journal: James
Koas atereotyper. Detroit Journal; William
w. Dunlap. OF Dunlap Rogers Typograph
Supply company: Henry Larivcre. mailing
clerk Detroit Journal: Walter 4. Saxby.
machinist. employed by Dunlap 4 Co;
j.. l.. Relgcr, machnist, employed BY Dun
lap & Co. John Bowman, Carrie M. Bower,
Hattie Hitler. Minnie Lclsc, Michael Ward
ard the unidentified body Of slight built
man.
The missing are as follows:
George ). Hitler. Annie uhlik. Rose
Morgan, Bertha Weidbush, Annie Weld
bush. John Breltcnbecher. Adoph
Schricber. Jennie Ncugaur. Charles
Lind. boy; Rosa Bfetz. Emma Lich-
tenbcrg. John Koerber. all employees
ca seventh street stereotyper De-
troit Journal l<ittie Leonard. Plummci
avenue. employed by Davis x Co.; Nelson
Iacroik employed IN Journal engine-room
Miss Isue Fretz. aged 20. No. 939 18th street.
apprentice. Dunlap a. Co.: james Thomas
~ Junction avenue, machinist, Dunlap a.
CO.. John $. Derby, 4f0 18th street. carpcn-
ter. working at Dunlap * Co.; Joseph
bradley. carpenter. 2sg Abbott street. mar
RED, two children; Ernest Pnrkina. -
Beech street. mail clerk, Detroit journal,
John Gordon, Lizzie Taylor. Eugene VIII
son. John Campbell, William Reynolds.
The Detroit journal was located at
Shelby and Iarned streets, occupying
for It's main Offices 70-foot front OF
Larned street. Next east OF its build
ing and part of the same block We're two
20-foot fronts, which constituted the
scene OF the disaster. One OF these, No.
IS. was wholly occupied by John Davis
Il Co. salerntus manufacturers AMI
dealers In grocers' supplies,wllile in the
basement of the other were the two boil
ers which exploded. just above the
boiler room on the first floor was the
Journals mailing-room. The second
floor was occupied by the Kohlbran1
company and w. w. Dunlap's
agency for Rogers typograph supplies
The third and fourth floors were j
George Killers book bindery, and the
top floor was the Journals stcreotyping
room
The first intimation the neighborhood
got OF the disaster was from the tre-
Inendous report followed by binding
cloud OF debris, smoke and steam and
before this had cleared away the whole |
Ave floors and the people working up
nn them were in one incxtricable wreck. |
The force of the explosion had |
thrown down the wall between |
Nos. As and AZ Larned street |
md the joists which rested on il |
came tumbling down, tearing them |
selves away from the adjoining wall. |
The firemen were there In a minute
from the next corner. The whole down
town division OF the department. fol-
lowed. and Wiling volunteers from the |
crowd that collected pitched in to help
Iiig into the ruins. Near the top Annie |
O'Donoghuc was found. her head mass
~ bloody flesh from which faint cries
for priest were emitted constantly.
Sll was carried off to the hospital. |
Then began the narrowing details of |
the awful calamity. One poor fellDw,
stunned and helpless, lay just upon the
edge of the pile. He was taken out and |
passed to volunteer helpers. Then en-.
other whose feet were pinioned, was
reached. but IL was found that he could |
not be released. Constant digging |
finally effected his release and he wns
out and placed in one of the |
Near the top OF the ruins one arm |
and the leg OF n man protruded. The |
Of the body was buried be- |
meath the rubbish. At intervals the arm |
wns feebly waved. The rescuers CEN
tered their efforts upon this point. and |
worked like heroes TO effect release |
as quickly as possible. Many moments
elapsed before he was lifted into an
At that time IL was not
determined whether life was extinct.
hut he was unconscious.
Then came the horrors of the calnm- |
ity. AS the workers dug into the debris |
and the air got into IL the furnace fircs
set the debris from the bindery ablnzc
and the rescuers were driven back 10y
smoke. through which. from time 20
time, came muflled cries for help. The
fircmen worked on heroically. and
streams turned on the blaze soon
the fire so that gang of 200
iaborers who had been collected could
get into the debris and pull II into the
street.
As the dlggers continued their work
in front of the wrecked building the up
raised arm Of n man was discovered on
the sidewalk. IL WIS necessary 90 move
huge pieces OF stone window sill md
fragments OF machinery before the
body could be released. The victim had
escaped the steam and smoke. but his
head was crushed into n shapclcss mass.
lie was Identified as Henry Larlvicre.
journal mailing clerk.
The seventh body, apparently that OF
10 81. "a. -.