The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-05
Victims OF GASOLENE
Twenty People Killed By
an Explosion in Gin
cinnati.
SEVEN BODIES RECOVERED
Singular Escape Of Mother and
Child--oyer Sixty In
jured.
SEVEN BODIES RECOVERED.

gaselene. Not one brick upon another was
left in the front and rear walls of the
building, while adjacent structures were
badly damaged.
Following.is the partial list of the VIC
Tins
The dead
p. A. Davis
Adolph Drach.
Mamie Kennedy.
David Noland
An unknown travelling man.
A child of Mr.. Drachs.
Two unidentified men.
The missing
K. A. Fricke of Norwood.
+ John McCarvey.
Long, an employe of Colonel VIM.
B. Smith.
Stanley Ferguson, son of e. A. Fegu-
son. the lawyer
The injured
Peter Burns, William Cook. Willard E.
Cook, clerk; w. d. Crosby, paper hanger;
- Fisher, Louis Fey, wife and baby;
Charles Fflley, Conductor Fclliard, Har-
ry Harwick, Fred Healy, H. E. Hunwick,
Cincinnati; - Huron, Barbara Huttleson,
James ]. James of the Salt Lake City
Herald; Sid johnson, William Lauth,
William Lohrde, Jack Mccarthy Joseph
Mommel - Healy, Herman, Nolte. Jr..
Joseph Sprague, James Spriggs, Motorman
Stoffel. a servant girl in the family of
Fey, J. D. Ward of Toledo, O.; S. S.
Wells Juseph Worthner.
The wrecked building stood exactly soppo-
site tne Gibson House and the johnson
House. the guests in which were terribly
dynamo was put in the building two
days ago, the power for. which was fur
nlsned by an engine run by gasolene. The
As the crash came the electric lights and
the arch lights for the trelleys were thrown
down throughout the neighborhood ard
bite fire flashed in all directions This
ps1e in the Gibson House, the flashing
and cracking of the wires giving the
guests the impression that ire had brok-
en- out in the building.
The persons in the MOTEL, however. were
the streets. A general stampede to
points OF. shelter was made, and in the
hurry and tnmuIt several persons Were IN
: ing wires risy dasl;ng against each other
in their mad rush for safety.
The building under which the explosion
occurred was five stories in height -Four
floors were used as fats, occupied by a
number of families.
In the lower part Of the building We're
the saloons of Adolph Draeh and Lewis
Fey. These establishments were among
tl,e.1 the finest nest Of the kind in the city and
least score of persons in them.
The scene of the explosion was but four
Walnut streets, where the Post Oigice IS
located. No part of the city during the
DAY or night is more crowded than this,
ard panic seized the thousands in the vi
cinity when the crash was heard
There was no fire to consume the Debris
which fell in one solid heap on the vic
TINS, but the dust and dirt continued fly
ing for long time so densely that the
work of rescue proceeded with great diff
ficulty.
The policemen and fremen worked like
heroes and materially aided in reducing
the loss of life. Expert engineers also
directed the work of making successful
openings in the pile of debris, and by
this means some of the victims We're
easily reached.
One startling incident was the wreck
ing of a street car that was passing at
the time. There were fifteen or twenty
passengers in the car, and when the
from the track. The glass in the win
dows was shattered to bits, and the pas
sengers rushede to escape. Five or six
of them were badly hurt
The rnotornan of the car was hurled
from the platform and fatally injured.
AT II o'clock last night the body of
Adolph Drach was found crushed against
far wall of the cellar; His skull was
firenen came within a few feet of Mrs.
Drach, whose hand they could reach. She
was finally released, after having lain
pinioned by the foot for five hours With
baby in her arms.
She had been in sight for over two
hours, and stimulants and food were
passed down to her at intervals.
The baby was lying on her breast ap-
parently uninjured, while across her
body lay the corpse of the nurse Mamie
Kennedy. The girl had saved her mis-
tress' life. The falling tirnbers had kill
ed her but her body protected Mrs.
Drac1 from injury.
All of the departments Of the city were
at work this morning at the ruins. The
department were out in full force remov-
ing the debris, and engineers were on
hand experimenting the handling Of the
heavy timbers.
r. A. Davis, general manager Of the
Columbia Carriage Company, Hamilton,
O., young man recently married, was
passing the building at the time of the
explosion, and was blown into the street
falling under a Newport KY, electric
car, which crushed him TO death The
motorman was blown from the car and
fatally hurt
James ]. James of the Salt Lake City
Herald had just left the Gibson House
to get his train for the West. He was
knocked through an open door into a
tailor shop and rendered unconscious. He
revived in about ten minutes and was.
able to catch his train
The heavy plate glass window of the
Gibson House barber shop was shattered
alsos the front Of the BTomWeh y WIRE a,.lI'
Imperial Potentate of the Order Of the
Mystic Shrine, We're blown in. Two vim
dows of the Chesapeake & Ohio freight
offices were blown into atoms. as were
windows in buildings on the side of the
street opposite the scene of the explosion
as far south as Fourth and north to
Fifth Pieces of plate glass from the size
the street and sidewalks from Fourth to
Fifth streets