Rock Island Argus., 1895-11-07
FIFTY WENT
With the Wreck Of the Detroit
Journal Building.
SEVENTEEN KNOWN TO BE DEAD
And a Score os More Are Missing
with Hardly Doubt of Their
Awful Fate.

DoiPr EXPLOSIVES Collapses . Five-seorv
Forty Foos Structure, CATCHING N.ar,v
Every Ono Of ITS Inmates In the Ruins
Nineteen Injured. Two Of whom VIII
Probably Die-Eieven Corp.cs Recovered
from the Debris and More Arc Farther
Dows-story of the Disaster.
DETROIT, Nov. IA gaping rent nearly
forty feet wide from top to bottom Of a
fivc.story business block; dozen dead
bodies recovered; score of persons in.
Jurcd, and more than that number miss.
Ing with certainty that many more dead
bodies are beneath the ruins-such are
the results Of an explosion that startled
tho city yesterday and totally wrecked
about third Of tho building Mt the cor.
ner Of Larned and Shelby streets, occu
pied by the Detroit Evening Journal and
several othor tenants. At y O'Clock YES.
tcrday morning the whole neighborhood
was terrified by fearful shock, caused by
the exploding Of the boilers in the base
mcnt Of The Journal building. Plate
glass windows ncross the street and some
ofthosc farther away were shattcrcdby the
conclusion and several persons were cut
by fallipe. glass.
tifty Persons In the Ruins.
ut the same instant the five floors and
roof of that section of the building col
iapssd and fell to the basement, carrying
with them at lcnst fifty persons who had not
the slightest warning Of their danger The
cloud Of dust which blinded the eyes Of tho
amazed Spectators Of the horror was quick.
" succeeded by smoke from the fires which
started In the ruins. The work Of rescue
was rushed to the utmost all day and last
night, but progress has necessarily been
very slow. The debris and brick are
dumped into nm almost solid mass upon
which quantities Of water have been
poured and into which comparatively lit
tie Roadway has been made.
Seventeen Dead Bodies Recovered.
The dead thus far taken from the ruins
nrc: Lizzie Tapley. aged 20; Henry
Walsh; John j. Reuter-; George II. Soulc,
cngravcr; George shaw and Willie Halves,
mailcrs, Detroit Journal; James Ross;
William w. Dunlap; Henry Lnrivcrc,
cmploye mailing room Journal; unknown
boy. supposed To- b. John Bowman: Carrie
Bauer, aged ~, bookkceper: Walter y.
Saxby, machinist; Michael Ward, stcrco-
typcr; Hattie Hillic and Minnie Licse,
bindcry employees; f.. l.. Rcigcr. machin-
ist: unidentified, slight built man.
Long List of Injured People.
The injured arc: Cornelius George,
seriously scaldci about head and brcast
and injured around the hips; Charles Her.
gert, bruised around head and body and
scaidcd by acid; Annie O'Donoghuc, legs
md face crushed, badly injured on body,
condition serious; II. &. Fcyc, cut about
head and face; Albert Weber. prcssman
ON Journal, badly burned on hand, arm
aud feet, scalp laccratcd and unconscious,
injuries probably fatal; a. ID. Lynch,
stcrcotypcr, hand. arm and face burned,
confusion of scalp; James Holt, deep cash
acruss face; Martin Meyers, cut in the
neck; Carrie "A. Spcck, cut by flying glass !;
Andrew Hilbcrschicd; W. G. Jupp,
face laccratcd by splintcrcd glass;
Thomas Williams, assistant foreman
Journal, struck on head by steam pipe,
not serious; Frank Gmcincr, artist badly
cut about head Joseph a. Bcrcsfori,
slightly injured; Lucy a. Hollcn, slightly
injured; Margaret l.. Robinson, slightly
injured; Joseph Winter. painfully injured.
but not seriously; Walter OFT. artist,
hands and wrists cut; Herman Miller, Of
lice boy, severely cut by falling glass.
Many More Who Are Probably Dead.
some thirty tenants and employees in
the building are still missing. and there
can bc no doubt that most Of these arc ly.
ing dead under the debris. The wrecked
portion of the building. which Is owned
Ivy the Ncwbcrry estate, was separated
from the rest of the structure by a fire
wall. The first floor Of that section was
occupied by the John Davis company,
dealers In druggists spccialtics, and by
The Journal mailing department. The
sccond, third, and fourth floors We're occu.
pied by the Davis company, w. W. Dun.
lap n Co. (machinists,, and the Hitler
book bindcry. The editorial rooms of The
Journal arr on the fourth iiocr. but situ.
atcd bcyond the fire wall, and the staff cs.
capped injury.