The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-07
FIVE FLOORS FALL
BOILER EXPLOSION IN DETROIT
WOBKS AWFUL HAVOC.

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Boiler Explosion In the Basement of the
journal Building in Detroit PuIverizes
Floor, Roof and Waits. Pilins the De-
bris of the Structure with IT'S Scores of
Human Occupants In a Solid Mass at the
Bottom-A Dozen Dead, a score Injured
and a Still Larger Number Missing-No
Hope for Those Yet in the Ruins.
Detroit, Mich, Nov. Ga gaping rent
nearly forty feet wide from top to bot
tenn of a five story business block; a
dozen dead bodies recovered; score
Of persons injured and more than that
number missing, with a certainty that
many more dead bodies are beneath the
ruins-such are the results of an ex-
plosion which startled the city today
and totally wrecked about a third of
the building at the corner of Larned
and Shelby streets occupied by the De-
troit Evening Journal and several other
tenants
At O'Clock this morning the whole
neighborhood was terrified by a fear
full shock caused by the explosion of
the boilers in the basement Of the
Journal building. Plate glass win
dows across the street and some Of
those farther away were shattered by
the concussion and several persons
were cut by falling glass. At the same
instant, the five floors and roof Of that
section of the building collapsed and
fell to the basement carrying with it
at least fifty persons who had not the
slightest warning of their danger. The
cloud Of dust which blinded the eyes Of
the amazed spectators of the horror
was quickly succeeded by smoke from
the fires which started in the ruins. The
work Of rescue was rushed to the ut
most all day and tonight but progress
has necessarily been very slow
The debris and brick are dumped into
an almost solid mass upon which guam
titles of water have been porued and
into which comparative little Roadway
has been made.
THE DEAD.
The dead thus far taken from the
ruins are:
LIZZIE TAPLEY. employed by Davis
and company.
HENRY WALSH, employed by the
Kohlbrand Engraving comapny
JOHN R RUETTER, apprentice in
Tie SInp.Oy Oh DUnlaD az co.
G.. H. SOULE, engraver
GEORGE SHAW, mailer.
WILLIE HALVES, 16 years old, mail
er, Detroit Journal
JAMES ROSS.
WILLIAM W. DUNLAP.
HENRY LARIVERE, employee mall
ing room, Journal.
Unknown boy; remains found in the
ruins at 415, features unrecognizab BILE:
SuDnnSaG n "a Tohi1,
ed by Kolhbrand & Co.
CARRIS BAUER, aged %, book
keeper in Killers bindery.
=. REIGER, machinest; family lives
at Oscoda, Mich.
Unidentified; slight built man. body
at the morgue.
HATTIE HILLIR, employee HilIir's
book bindery; body recovered at 1880
a. m.
MINNIE LTEsE. also bindery en-
ploy, body got out shortly afterward.
THE INJURED.
Cornelius George. seriously scalded
about the head and breast and injured
about the hips.
Charles Hergert, employee of John
Davis & Co, bruised about the head
and body and scalded by acid
Annie O'Donoghue; legs and face
crushed. badly injured on the body,
condition serious.
ii. o. Foye, advertising solicitor of the
journal; cut about the head and face.
Albert Weber, on the Journal; badly
burned on the hand, arms and feet,
scalp lacerated and unconscious; in
juries probably fatal
A. D. Lynch. stereotyper; hand, arm
and face burned: confusion of scalp.
James HoYt, 16-years old, employed
by the Speaker Printing company deep
cash across the face.
Martin Myers. advertising solicitor
of the News; cut in the neck.
Carrie A Speak. clerk; cut by flying
glass.
Andrew Halberschied; face lacerated
by splintered glass.
Thomas Williams, assistant foreman
OF the Journal struck on the head by a
steam pipe; injured but not seriously.
Frank G.. Reiner, artist: badly cut
about the head
Joseph A. Beresford, bookkeeper:
slightly injured.
Lucy A. Holden, stenographer; slight
ly injured.
Margaret L. Robinson, stenographer.
Slightly injured.
Joseph Winter. Bookkeeper; painfully
injured but not seriously.
Walter OFT, artist; hands and wrists
cut.
Herman Miller of the Calvert Lith-
ograph company; knocked down and
severely cut by falling glass.
THIRTY STILL MISSING,
Some thirty tenants and employees in
the building are still missing and there
san be no doubt that most of these
are lying dead under the debris.
The wrecked portion of theb uilding
which is owned by the Newbery 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 specialties. and by the Jour
nal mailing department. The second
third and fourth floors were occupied
by the Davis company. W. w. Dunlap
& Co. machinists, and the Hitler Book
bindery. The editorial rooms of the
Journal are on the fourth floor but sit
uated beyond the fire wall and the staff
escaped injury.
The Journal stereotyping room on the
fifth floor was directly in the path Of
the explosion and went down in the
wreck. 4 few had miraculous escapes
and came staggering from the ruins
after the awful shock, scarce knowing
themselves what had befalien them.
Arthur D. Lynch Journal stereotyp-
er who went down with the wreck from
the top floor. was pulled from the ruins
entirely conscious. He was under a
steam table preparing a matriX. When
he fell he was protected by the great
Iron table and could plainly hear the
at work until they reached
him.
CRAWLING FROM THE RUINS
NJ. Jacobs, a paper dealer who had
been in Killers bindery. had just left |
the building when the crash came. He
thought there must have been twenty |
girls and four or five boys in the bin |
tery besides George Hitler, the propri- |
stor, Of whom nothing has been seen |
Dr. beard since the accident
Charles Hackett was found In the |