The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-07
AN AWFUL DISASTER
Many Persons Killed By an Explosion
in a Detroit Building.
SOME 80 TENANTS MISSING
The Death Roll VIII Run Up Into
Two Figures-Carelessness Is
Undoubtedly the Cause
Shocking Scenes.

Detroit. Mich. Nov. "a gaping
rent nearly 40 feet wide from top to
bottom OF a five-story business block,
a dozen read bodies recovered, a 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 totally wrecked about a third
of the building at the corner of Larned
and Shelby streets. occupied by the De-
troit Evening Journal and several oth-
er tenants.
The dead thus far taken from the
ruins are: Lizzie Tapley. aged 20;
Henry Walsh. John ]. Reuter-. George
II. soule, George Shaw. Willie Hawea
James Ross, william w. Dunlap. Hen
ry Larivere, an unknown boy whose
remains were found in the ruins. the
features unrecognizable. suppcsed to be
John Bowman; Carrie Bauey
The injured Cornelius George. sert-
ously scalded: Charles Hegert. bruised
around the head and body: Annie
O'Donaghue, legs and face crushed.
condition serious: III. I. Foye. cut about
the head and face; Albert Weber. bad
ly burned: A. ID. Lynch. face bruised;
James Holt, cash across the face: Mar
tin Meyers, cut in the neck: Carrie A
Speak. cut by flying glass; Andrew
Halberschied. hand crushed; w. c.
Jupp, face lacerated; Thomas w. VIII
liams. struck on head by steam pipe:
Frank Grelner. cut about head; Joseph
A. Beresford, slightly injured; Lucy A
Holden. slightly injured; Margaret L.
Robinson. slightly injured; Joseph
Winter, painfully injured: Walter Ott.
hands and wrists cut: Herman Miller.
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 are
lying dead under the debris. The
wrecked portion OF the building which
is owned by the Newbery 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
supplies. and by the Journal mailing
department. The second. third and
fourth floors were occupied by the Da-
Wis company, w. w. Dunlap q Co. ma
chinists. and IIillisrs book bindery.
The editorial rooms OF the Journal are
on the fourth floor, but situated be-
| yOuu Uuo AlIc ffNtn 9A4 sAAS oNah CoNaR1a
injury. The Journal stereotype room
on the NTH ioor was directly In the
path of the explosion and went down
In the wreck A few had miraculous
escapes and came staggering from the
ruins after the awful shock. Arthur
ID. Lynch. a Journal stereotyper. who
went down with the wreck from the
top ffoor, was pulled from the ruins en-
tireiy conscious. When ne fell he was
protected by the great iron table and
could plainly hear the resouers ax
work until they reached him Charles
Hackett was found In the rsiins In the
rear. to which approach was had
through the alley.
Before he was removed m the am
bulance he reported there had been
four or i've girls on the floor with him
Charles Herbert. q packer employed
by John Davis & Co.. was on the third
floor when the explosion occurred
From the list Of tenants and en-
ployes secured n seems certain that 50
people in all were IN the collapse sec
ton. There are stll 27 persons unac-
counted for. and II N reasonable %
presume that most OF them are among
the dead. At every hour reports are
received Of others who are mi ssina
and whose relatives and friends have
been unable TO find any trace OF them
OF those who are now m the ruins n
10 Impossible that any VIII be rescued
!, alive. Those who were not killed out-
right have undoubtedly perished
. either from sufrocation or exhaustion
! The totaA death rate viii not b
.. known before tomorrow night Ths
work Of removing the debris and
searching for the bodies is going oz
all might
Carelessness ts undoubtedly I'M
: cause OF the disaster. but where tn
, responsibility rests Is as yet problem
atical Thomas Thomson. the en-
gineer. said he could assign no reasor
for the explosion. The most shocking
scene attending the holocaust was
struggle between Coroner Butler s.ns
an undertaken tn the employ OF Giles
L Brothers. against Undertaken Franl
y Gibbs. The latter clung TO the stretch
er while the body was being carrie.
out through the crowd AS the specxa
!. tors were becoming excited over tn
!. ghoulish scene. the police rushed Glib
= outside the fire line and would not per
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