Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-05
A CALAMITY IN CINCINNATI
An Explosion of Gasoline in Five
Story Building Wrought Death
and Disaster.
APPALLING LIST OF HUMAN VICTIMS
Explosion of a Gasoline Stove in a
Brooklyn Tenement House Causes
the Burning of Two Women
and Two Children.


plosion IN the five-story building at 430-
432 Walnut street last night required the
attention of all the city departments to-
day. The street cleaning forces were
working on the debris, while fremen and
police were on duty for squares about
the wreckage.
The fatalities in the building occupied
by Adolph Brach and Louis A. Fey, with
cafes and saloons on the first floor and
flats on the four upper floors, were not as
great as estimated last night.
Ia order to rescue the victims from the
pile of debris, holes we're cut through the
walls and foundations of the adjoining
buildings. Il was found that the ad ia
cent walls showed the effects either of
these openings or of the explosion and
all the occupants of the buildings at 45S
and 434 Walnut street were ordered out
to-day.
Felicia Drach and c. L. Wells, in the
list Of those injured last night, died to-
day.
The other dead are:
Rolling A. Davis.
Adolph Drach.
Mamie Kennedy.
The worknen report two other bodies
in sight.
The injured number twenty.
John McCarty is in critical condition.
The body taken o the morgue last night,
supposed to be that of Mamie Kennedy,
was to-day identified as Ella Singleton.
Mamie Kennedy is missing and no
doubt is dead.
Among others missing are Ruth and
Milie, domest.~.
William Meyer.
Harry Langmead.
Samuel Epstein.
Mortimer Okane.
Louis Fosdick.
William Lauth.
Southgate.
Lightfoot.
Mrs. Adolph Drach was held in the
timbers all night and rescued this morn
ing with her feet horribly crushed.
Among the others most seriously hurt
are:
Joseph Spriggs, colored, burned.
II. 4. Hunwlck, shoulder dislocated.
Mary Huttzelmann, head cut.
Emil Drach, 3 years old, arm and leg
broken, cut over eye.
Peter Barls, coneussion.
Chas. Spille, confusion.
Thore is much Indignation because the
explosion, it is said, was due to careless:
ness in emptying barrel of gasoline in
tank, leaving it so exposed that flash
from deranged electric wires caused the
explosion.
AS Adolph Drach was himself experi-
menting with the new engine and electric
Il - 4, soks N
can not be any redress.
Work was stopped at noon because of
the danger from the walls of the adjoin-
ing buildings. It is feared that no more
people can be taken out Of the ruins
alive.
Harry Longmead and Mortimer Okane,
included among the missing, have turned
up.
FOUR PERSONS BURNED IN BRooKLYN.
New York.--By the explosion of a
gasoline stove in Brooklyn tenement
house to-day two women and two children
were so badly burned tn at they died soon
afterward
Two other children were seriously
burned. The dead are:
Mrs. Rebecca Cohen.
Carl Cohen, years.
Solomon Cohen, years. =.
Mrs. Pasterpek. ~
The explosion occurred in Mrs. Cohen's
apartments. y
The burning fluid ignited her clothing
quickly enveloping her in flames. She ran
shrieking into s.hie apartment oi Mrs.
Paste mex, across the hallway, and in
the latter's attempt to rescue the suffer
ing woman, her clothing was set on IRE
Then both women ran into the hall
way, where they were found by the fire
men.