Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-07
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| FRANK u. Melner, artlst Iof INC Sei'ei
| Litbographing Co., seriously cut about th'
head with glass.
Joseph A. Bersford, book-keeper for T.
+. Collier x Co., slightly injured.
Lucy A. Holden, stenoRrapher for Col
lier & Co., slightly injured.
Margaret L. Robinson, stenographer foi
| Collier & Co., slightly injured.
Joseph Winter, book-keeper for Davis q
| Co, painfully injured, not seriously.
Walter Ott artist, Calvert Lithograph
ing Co, hands and wrists cut.
| Herman Miller, office boy, Calvert
Iithoeraphing Co, knocked down and
severely cut by falling glass.
| Il. Thompson, engineer of the Journal
badly cut and bruised.
THE Detroit Journal was located at
Shelby and Larned streets, occupying 1oI
its main offices 70foot front on Larnso
street Next east of its building i'll part
of the same block Were two 20-foot fronts
which constituted the scene Of the disaster,
| One of these No 49, was wholly oc-
cupied by John Davis x Co, salaratus
manufacturers and dealers in grocers' sup
nlirs. and in the basement of the other
were the two boilers which exploded.
| lust above the boiler room en- the first
floor was the Journals mailing room
The second floor was occupied by kohi
Brand Engraving Co. and W. W. Dunlap S
agency for Rogers Typograph supplies.
| on the third and fourth floors were George
| Killers hook bindery, and on the top floor
WAS the Journals stereotyping ROOM
There were three stereotypers at worR
on the Journals floor, about 80 girls in the
book bindcry, besides the proprietor,
machipist and several others in the Typo
graph supply shop. several engravers and
assistants in the Kohl Brand Companys'
rooms, and force of clerks in the mail
ing ROOM There were six persons in the
| Davis building In the basement were
fine engineer. fireman and several press
men.
The first intimation the neighhorhood
got of the disaster was a tremendous re-
mort followed by binding cloud OF
debris, smoke and steam. and before this
cleared away the whole five floors and peo-
pie working on them were in an ineXtric-
able mass of wreckage.
The force of the explosion had thrown
down the wall between 45 aud AZ Larned
street, and the joists which rested on it
came tumbling down, tearing themselves
away from the adjoining wall. A heavy
firewall separated this building from the
main building of the Journal. Although
several holes were blown through it, Thu
wall remained strong.
The firemcn We're there in minute
from the next corner. The whole down
town division of the department, followed
by volunteers from the crowd that col
lected, started to dig into the rooms.
Near the top, Annie O'Donoghue was
found, her head mass of bloody flesh,
from which faint cries for a priest was
constantly emitted. She was carried I,
the hospital
One poor fellow, stunned and helpless
lay just upon the edge of the pile He
was taken out and passed to volunteer
helpers Another, whose feet were pin
10 led was reached but it was found that
he could not be released. Constant dig
Il finally effected his release and he
was placed in an ambulance
Thousands of people had gathered at
| the scene and the police were on hand in
large numbers. Near the top of the ruins,
one arm and q leg of Il man protruded
The remainder of the body was buried be
meath the rubbish. AT intervals the arm
was feebly moved. The rtscucrs conferred
their efforts upon this point and bfavely
worked. Many moments elapsed before
the victim was lifted into an ambulance
He was then unconscious
AS the workers dug into the debris and
the air got into 1t, the furnace fires set the
debris from the bindery ablaZe and the
wreckers were driven back by the smoke,
through which, from time to time, came
muf1led cries for help.
The fi;emen worked heroically and
streams turned on the blaze soon checked
the fire so that a gang of 200 laborers
could get into the debris and pull it into
the street
Charles Hackett was found in the third
story of the ruins in the rear, to which ap
proach was had through the alley. He
reported that there had been four or five
girls on the floor with him. He did not
seem to be seriously injured
As the diggers continued their work in
the front of the wrecked building an up
raised arm of a man was uncovered on the
sidewalk, not far from where four other
bodies were taken out. 1t was necessary
to move huge pieces of the stone window
sill and fragments ofmachinery before the
body could be released. The victims had
escaped the steam and smoke, but his head
was crushed into a shapcless mass. He
was identified as Henry Larviere, a Jour
nal mailing clerk
Two more bodies were found at the
same corner, making four taken from that
spot They presented an awful sight as
the hot bricks and smoking timbers were
pulled away. One was sitting bolt I'D
right, with his back to the street, and
the other, just below him, had been caught
as he plunged headlong downwards. This
was Dunlap, the Typograph supply dealer.
The other body was George Shawn Jour
nal clerk.
Another body was found half an hour
later 1t was young man in blouse
and overalls and lay under all the debris
on the sidewalk. A great block of stone
had fallen upon his head, crushing 1t fat.
The seventh body was taken from the
sidewalk in front of the building. soon
after 1 o'clock. Shortly after the rescue
Of HacSctt the men engaged in clearing
away the wreckBge at the rear OF the
building caught sight of two bodies, a man
and girl, under great heap Of beams.
boards and bricks
1t was thought at first that both were
dead, but someone said thew could 500 ,ha