The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-07
Twenty People Suffering with
Wounds, Some Injured So seriously
They VIII Probably Die.
RESPONSIBILITY NOT PLACED
BOILERS THOUGHT TO HAVE Ex-
PL0DED THROUGH CARELEssNEss.
Hole Forty Feet Wide Torn I'm the
Structure from Top To bottom
Fight Between Undertakers.

DETROIT. Nov. GA gaping rent nearly
forty feet wide from top 10 bottom OF Ave-
story business block: seventeen 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 explosion which startled the city to-
day and wrecked about third OF the build
ing at the corner OF Larned and Shelby
streets, occupied by the Detroit Evening"
Journal and several other tenants.
At o'clock this morning the whole
neighborhood was terrified by a shock,
caused by the exploding OF the boilers I'm
the basement of the Journal building. Plate
glass windows across the street and some
of those further 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 10 the base
ment, carrying with il at least fifty per-
sons 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 fire which started in the
ruins. The work OF rescue was rushed TO
the utmost all day and tonight, but
progress has necessarily been very slow.
The debris and brick are dumped into an
almost solid mass upon which quantities
of water has been poured and into which
comparatively lhIe headway has been
made The dead thus Ear taken from the
ruins are:
LIZZIE TAPLEY, aged twenty. employed
HENRY WALSH, employed by the Kohl
JOHN j. REUTER-, apprentice in the en-
Ix~ro - la, a. n
GEORGE II. soULE. engraver. Detroit
| Journal.
Wf2E HAWEs maf1 sisteen a'fS years % old.
mailer, Detroit Journal.
JAMES ROSS.
! HENRY LA ,RIvIERE, employed IN mall
| ing room of Journal.
UNKNOWN BOY remains found In ruins
10 be sl 5oHS ffS15eS BowMAS employed By KoS
SAkEIE BAgEE B s, afsa ESa.ry twepsyshrss ssds ss.
'oHelfT HATTIE r. HITLER, Ii empIoye HIIlIers
book sndery body recove5sd rsdasrv at as9 M
body gotten out shortly afterward.
e. L. REIGER. machinist; family lives
UNIDENTIFIED, slight built man; body
WALTER p. sAXBY. machinist. Dun
MICHAEL WARD. stereotyper. Journal
The injured are:
CORNELIUS GEORGE. seriously scalded
about head and breast and injured around
CHARLES HERGERr. employe df John
Davis & Co.. bruised on head and body. and
scalded by acid.
ANNIE o'DoNAGHuE, 81, lsg g and ,,t,.., face
H. q. FoYE. advertising solicitor Even
ing News. cut about head and face.
| A n -rr11fl m Inn al
badly burned on hand. arm and feet; scalp
lscerated and unconscious: injuries prob
A. ID. LYNCH. stereotyper, hand. arm and
! face burned; confusion Of scalp.
JAMES HOLT. sixteen years old. en-
ployed by Speaker Printing Company deep
MARTIN MEYERS, advertising solicitor
CARRIE A. sPECK. clerk. cut by flying
ANDREW HILDERscHEID. machine
hand.
w. C. JUPP. face lacerated by splintered
THOMAS WILLIAMS. assistant foreman
Journal, struck on head by steam pipe: In
FRANK GEINER. artist. badly cut about
| head.
Lucy A. HOLDEN. stenographer.
MsARsGARET l. ROBINSON. stenogra-
pher. slightly injured.
JOsEPH WINTER, bookkeeper. painfully
| injured. but not seriously.
WALTER OFT. artist hands and wrists
HERMAN MILLER. Office boy. Calvert
I.ithoRraphng Company. knocked down and
| severely cut by falling glass.
Some thirty tenants and employees in the
| building are still missing and there can be
| no doubt that most OF these lying dead
| under the debris.
EDITORS WE'RE FORTUNATE.
The wrecked portion OF the building.
| which Is owned by the Newberry estate.
| was separated from the rest OF the struc-
ture by a fire wall. The first floor OF the
section was occupied by the John Davis
| Company, dealers In druggists specialties.
| and by the Journal 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 situated
| beyond the fire wall. and the stan escaped
| injury. The Journal stereotyping room. on
| the fifth floor. was directly in the path OF
the explosion and went down Ia the wreck
| A few had narrow escapes and came stag
gering from the ruins after the awful
| shock. scarce Knowing themselves what had
befallen them.
Arthur d. Lynch. a Journal stereotypcr.
who went down with the wreck from the
top hoor. was pulled from the ruins con-
! scious. He was beside steam table. pre-
pairing a mafrix. When he fell he was pro-
tected by the great iron table. and could
plainly hear the rescuers at work until
| they reached him.
f. NJ Jacobs a paper dealer. who had
been In Killers bindery. had just loft
| the building when the crash came. lie
| thought there must have been twenty kirls
| and four or fivc ooys in the bindery. besides
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