The herald., 1895-11-07
THE LIST OF TIE DEAD
Which Reads Like a Story
of Battle
The Detroit journal BUILDING
Is Wrecked by the Explosion of
a Boiler
THIRTY MEN ARE MISSING
And Most Of Them Lie Dead Under the
PiIed.Up Ruins
The Names Are Given Of Men and Won en-
and Children
Whose Bodies Have Been Recovered Fro m
the Solid rlass Of Bricks Which
Yesterday Was the Five-
Sforv Nex,herrv RuildinU
THIRTY MEN ARE MISSING
And Most Of Them Lie Dead Under the
Piled.Up Ruins
The Names Are Given OF Men and Won ca
and Children
Whose Bodies Have Been Recovered Fro m
the Solid 1ass Of Bricks Which
Yesterday Was the Five
Story Newberry Building
Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
d ETROIT, Mich, Nov. Ca gaping
rent nearly forty feet wide from top to
bottom Of fve-story business block;
dozen dead bodies recovered; score OF
persons injured, and more than that num-
Der missing, with certainty that many
more dead bodies are bsneatn the ruins
such are the results of an explosion
which startled the city today and totally
wrecked about third of the building at
the corner Of Larned and Shelby streets,
occupi by the Evening Journal and
several other tenants.
A. 8 O'CLOCK this morning the whole
neivhborhood was terrified by fearful
shock caused BY the explosion of the
buffers in tina basement of the Journal
building. Plate-glass windows across the
street and some Of those farther away
were shattered by the conclusion and sew.
eral persons were cut by falling glass. At
the same instan. the hye floors and roof
Of that section OF the building collapsed
and fell to the basement, carrying with
it at least fifty persons VINO 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 urm ost.
all day and tonight, but progress has
been necessarily very SLOW.
The debris of bricks Is dumped into n
almost solid mans, upon which quantities
of water have been poured AMI INTO
which comparatively little Roadway has
been made. The dead thus far taken
from the ruins are:
Lizzie Tapley, aged 20, employed by
Davis g. Co.
Henry Walsh, employed by Koh brand
Engraving company.
John J. Reuter-, an apprentice in the
employ of Dunlap & Co.
Georgs II. Soule, engraver.
George Shaw, mailer for Journal.
William Halves, mailer for journal.
Joseph Ross.
William W. Dunlap.
Henry Laievre, employee mailing room,
Journal.
Al. unknown boy, remains found in
ruins at 4:15; features unrecognizable;
supposed to be John Bowman, employed
ny Kohlbrand Co.
Carrie Bauer. aged 25, bookkaeper IN
Hillier's bindery, body recovered at II
p. m.
Raiger, m achinist; family lives at o.
coca, Mich.
pnluehtiheu, sHsnt puilt man pouy at
morgue.
Hattie Hitler, employe Killers book
bindery; body recovered at IL 80 a. IN.
Minnie Liese, also bindery employe;
body gotten out shortly afterward.
Walter p. Saxby, machinist for Dunlap
& Co.
Michael Ward, stereotyper for Journal.
The injured are Cornelius George. seri-
ousiy scalded about the head and breast
and injured around the hips; Charles
Hegert, emIpoye of John Davis e. Co.,
bruised around head and body. scaldsd
BY acid; Annie o. Donaghue, legs and
!. Foye, advertising solicitor Evening
News. cut about the head and face; AL
bert Weber. pressman of the Journal
badly burned on the hands, arms and
feet. scalp lacerated and unconscious. IN
iuries probably fatal; A. d. Lynch,
James Holt, employed by Speaker PRINT.
ing company, deep cash across the faca:
Martin Meyers, advertising solicitor News,
cut in the neck; Carrie A. Sneak, clerk,
cut by hyins glass; Andrew Hal berscheid,
machine hand; W; G. Jupp. face lacerat-
Williams, assistant foreman Journsl,
struck on the head by steam pipe; Frank
Greiner, artist, badly cut ABOUT the head
Joseph A. Beresford, bookkeeper, slight
~ injured; Lucy A. Holden, stenogra-
pher. slightly injured; Margaret L. Rob
Joseph Winter, bookkeeper. badly in.
jured, but not seriously; Walter OFT,
ARTIST, Lands and wrists cut; Herman
Mile knocked down and severely cut
by falling glass.
Some thirty tenants and employees in
the building are still missing and there
san be no doubt that most of them are
lying dead under the debris.
The wrecked portion &C building,