The Forrest City times., 1895-11-08
FR|GHTFUL EXPLOSION
of One of the Boilers in the De. troit Journal Office.
TIE BUILDING COMPLETELY WRECKED,
And a Larg. Number of Persons Buried in the Ruins-Twenty- Five or
 Thirty Lives Supposed to Have Been Lost.

# DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 7.-At o'clock
 . m. one of the steam boilers con.
 nected with the Journal plant ex &ploded with terrific force and terrible
 results. The boiler was located ir &tbe southeast corner of the building Mo 49 west Larned street. The frsi
 Moor was occupied by the Journal
 mailing department, in which force <pf fifteen men and boys are usually
 employed The second floor was occu Spied by the Rogers Typograph Supply
 Co., employing seven or eight Smen; the third floor by Hiller's book #bindery, which employed fully twenty. 5fve girls and men; the fourth was oc *cup pied by w. Kohl brand, an engraver, Sand on the fifth floor was the stereotyp 8ng department of the Journal. Only 8three men were at work Tn this de. #partment when the explosion occurred. #The building No. 45, occupied by John zE. Davis & Co.,, grocers' supplies, wa. *also completely wrecked. Only five or zeix persons were at work there, how. Fever, when the disaster occurred, and xthe loss of life In that building will ba 8small.
 # In an instant the building. were . &mass of ruins, under which were 1buried many human beings. # At II o'clock three bodies had been #taken out of the ruins, those of a gir Band two men, and halt a dozen other, @had been rescued alive, but are proba Xbly fatally injured. # Just how many lives are lost is 1, Nmatter of conjecture, but it will un x6ou bteGly reach twenty-five or thirty The fire men were quickly at the Swork of rescuing those who were un Fortunate enough to have been caughl * in the wrecked building CoIneliu EGeorge, foreman of the Journal mail N ing department, was one of the first tt # be rescued. He is badly scalded ant \ #injured and can hardly live. Miss Annie O'Donoghue was found
 near the top of the debris. She is saie 5 to be fatally injured, her skull having been crushed in. Arthur D. Lynch, James Ross ane Mic hael Ward, of the Journal stereo ktyping force, went down in the crash 3 but all three have been rescued Lynch and Ross were conscious wher taken out, and it is thought they art { not seriously injured. Ward was in a I Unconscious condition when rescued and he is badly hurt. The explosion shook the surround ling buildings, and glass in the radiui } of block was scattered in all direc tions. Many employees of adjoining es |tablishments were badly cut by flying glass.
 Half an hour after the explosion oc. ourred fire broke out in the de bris an, the tiremen had to suspend the. wors Of rescue and devote their attention tt putting out the flames. Just befor the flames started, one poor fellop was found with the lower part of hi body pinioned tightly. He was cot scious and begged the rescuers to ge him out. They worked like fiends t, release the unfortunate victim, but al
 to no avail. The flames suddenly sh6
 up around him and he had to be left t, his fate.
 Up to noon eight bodies had beet taken from the ruins and two nor, were in sight Most of the bodies ha(
 been burned beyond recognition. O
 the bodies recovered only those of Johl 5. Derby and Lizzie Tapley have bee,
 Identified. The firemen are workin, desperately, but progress is slow. Following is revised list of tn, casualties:
 IDENTIFIED DEAD.
 John $. Derby.
 Lizzie Topley. George w. Soule. George Shaw. w. w. Dunlap
 Henry Larviere. Willie Hauss. Michael Ward, Journal stereotyper.
 James Ross, Journal stereotyper.
 Arthur L. Lynch, Journal stereo
 typer.
 Eugenia Wilson. ~-' Jennie Neubauer
 Miss Carrie Bower.
 John Brackenbecker John Campbell.
 Kitty Kennedy. John Bowman
 Henry Welch.
 Will Reynolds
 Kate Hitler. forewoman Hilier's bin
 aery.
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