Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-06-22
BURIED UNDER The RUINS
Awful Explosion at Fall River,
Mass, Friday.
End of the Isuildtng Blown Out--Forty'
Five People at Work-Ruins Take
Fire and Il tai the Horror
The Engineer
Arrested.

Fall River, Mass, June 18th worst
| catastrophe that has visited the city
since the Granite mill fire occurred
| this morning at the Langley mar
ness shops ,on County street. A boiler
exploded in the basement OF the two
story works, blowing out the entire eng
| OF the building. knocking the supporta
| from the side and allowing the uppeS
floor to settle into a mass or ruins.
There were forty-fiye persons at WORK
in the shop and only nine are known 10
| have escaped alive. Among these were
| Henry j. Langley. the proprietor; Geo.
Il. Dayol, the foreman, n TWO girls
| named Champagne and Desrosiers.
The flames communicated with the
| ruins and they began 10 burn prlskiy.
The fremen rushe to he scene ana
| made heroic efforts to rescue the I'M
| prisoned work people. Shrieks from the
girls in the ruins were mingled with the
agonized cries of their friends. VINO
had hurried to the scene when the nrst
! news of the catastrophe occurred. Am
bulance calls were sent out hurriedly
and every physician who could 'pe
! reached was sent at once TO the scene
The Offices and houses In the vicinity
| were turned into temporary hospitals.
' At Q o'clock the badly charred n
| scarcely recognizable body OF a woman
| had been hauled from the ruins. The
fire had beer quenched, but II was sun
smouldering and the work of resculng
| could go on only with difficulty. There
| were about fifty persons employed In
| the shops, the greater percentage OF
| this number being women. Machinlst
Trim was mon those who escaped,
| also a woman named Jalbert, and her
| sisterinlaw. who worked side by side
on the third floor. one was hurt anu
| the other was slightly bruised. .
The Jalbert girl and her sisterinlaw
were thrown into the middle OF the
road. The former escaped uninjured
but the latter was badly cut about the
face and arms. At 9:45 o'clock the
names of the rescued so FAR as iearheo
were given out as follows:
Alice Trelday, Matte Doersch. Miss
| lambert, Leah Horton, Adele DUDE,
| Ada Lepage. Henry f. Langley. Geo.
F.. Davol, Engineer Trip and Foreman
| Warren.
Mr.. Langley Is in a critical condition
| and has been removed to his nome LOT
treatment. j..
The shock broke In the or
the Stafford mill and injured several OF
the operatives.
At 900 o'clock the badly charred re-
mains of Robert Murray were taken
out. The sta music hall has been
made a morgue where Medical Exam
liner Dolan and many other physicians
are installed.
The engine was situated In the north
west corner of the building and was or
fifty horse power.
IL is estimated there are at least
thirty bodies in the ruins.
The third body, that OF a woman,
was hauled out Of the ruins at g:o5
o'clock. The body could not be recos-
nized.
The man who ran the boiler escaped
alive and uninjurcd. His name Is Lee
page. He says he filed the boiler .
five minutes before it blew up. There
was about our inches Of space In the
water glass not filled with water. The
fire had been going half an hour. :
The police have been able to account
for all but three of the people known to
have been in the Langley building,
which was wrecked by a boiler explo-
sion this morning. -Four dead bodies
had been recovered up to IL O'Clock.
Lelie Horton, aged II; Adele DUDE. Is;
Robert Murray. 81 and n mar who
has not yet been identified. Thomas
Fury, aged 10. n another unknown
are seriously injured and may not re-
cover. The three who are missing are
supposed to be in the debris.
The engineer. X. Lepage, has been
placed under arrest. He has told the
police that to his knowledge the boiler
had not been inspected since 1t has
been In use. At 1l:l5 the flames were
completely extinguished n hundreds
of volunteers were at work overhauling
the ruins in search of the missing peo-
pie.
The woman in the Stafford mill. re-
ported as dead, in a former dispatch,
was found to be alive when removed to
the morgue. She had swooned and was
for a long time unconscious.