The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-07
,reAt irontable and could plainly heal
Iha EeaeusEa at work until they reached

great irontable and could plainly hsaI
the reacusrs at work until they reached
Mi. Jacobs. a paper dealer who had
beanin Hilliera bindeFY, had just loft
the building when the crash came, lie
thought there must have boon twenty
girls and four or live boys In tho bind.
eEy, haSides George ], HillieE the pro-
prielor, OF whom nothing has been seen
or heard since the accident,
MANY IN FuH RUINS.
Charles Haekett wal found in the
ruins, In the rear to which anproanh
waa had through an alley, Before no
WA removed in the ambulance hO TO'
ported there had been four or iivR girls
on the floor with him, Charles her'
gelt, a packer, employed by John Davis
&Co., was on tho third ilOar when tho
explosion occurred, III felt tho crash
aud was surrounded by flying debris
before / could roNliza what happened.
The vinegar barrels aud acid carboys
came down ON ul, | don't know how
Igot out. know l brORlhed the treah
air alter u scramble among VIC ruins,
and knew / had escaped. fhera were
four others in ths bnilding that know
OF, Alex Campbell, AMMO lRpleY, kitlie
Laonard ana Joe Winter, tho book
keeper, / don't know who got out
alive"
From the llst OF tenants an employees
secured IL seems CERTAIN that l(iy people
In all were in tho collapsed section.
There nre still twonty.seven peraOus nm
accounted Tor, aud it Is moro thpn lar
to presume that inost oIthem are among
the dead.
Tho total death rate will not be
known before tomorrow night II
may even be- longer before the work
men rsacl tho hllsment doors OF the
ill,iated building aad the total number
oiliYes Loaf Is knnWn to u certalaly,
cARrLEssSESi THE CAUSE.
The work OF removing debris and
searching for the bodies IL going IN all
night by aid Of electric lights, but the
task Is a big Onc.
Carelessnes4 is undoubtedly the cause
Of tho dislStor, but where tho RESPONSE
bility rolts 10 a. yet r~roblenaIical.
Thomas Thompson, tho engineer. was
painfully Injured. lie said no could ~.
sign no reason Tor tho explosion. City
Boiler Inspector MeGragOr SAYS no in.
specled tia boilers last August and had
=, ionnd them mr. TO HE requirements.
Soma OF tho employees IN the building
assert that the boilers were old and
known TO DO unsafe. Still others have
atheory that iho explosion was caused
by chunicals owned by tho Davis Com
pany, stored Ia tin hasemdnt.
Tho most shocking seone attending
tho holocaust was y stru.glo hetwcnn
Coropnr Butler and an undertaken In
tho employ vi tiis. Bros. against unIer'
tuker Frank Gihb', The hitter ciung TO
the stto,caet while tbs body vac being
carried oil. through tho crowd, As tho
snecta,nrs waco becoming excited over
the ghouii,h crne. tho police. IN the
inIep,t ni order. rushed Glib. outside
the lire line aui would no. permit him
To return.
The property las will fall entirely
upon tho owners of tho building aud
tenants. II is not believed that the or
binary Insurance. n]oliciss cover tho loss
hy explasinn. rns lo,s on the ruined
part III tho building Is about $4,000.
The EYeuIng journal loses about
$1,000 by tho destruction OF It's mach
insrv, o,c. Tho total loss Of tho other
tenant. IL nileed At something over
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