The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-03
A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION
A Bursting Boiler In ST. Louis Causes Great
Loss of Life and Destruction.
FIVE KILLED AND NINETEEN INJURED.
Full List Of Employees I'm Different
establishments Not Obininnblc
List of sSiilcd Win Probably he
lncrcnscd When Rnins Arc Over.
hauled Loss Exceeds Si00.0OO.

st. Louis, Mo-, Jan. An explosion
in the boilcr-room of the Anchor Fire
works Company, at No. 81 North
Third street. at l y. III. set fire TO the
wrecked building. The four stories
were lifted bodily into the air and the
fire at once communicated to adjoining
warehouses. The explosion was heard
all over the Eastern end of the city
and every window for three blocks
around WAS shattered.
Al = II. H. the fire WAS under control
and the rcscuers found the corpscs of
Frank Nichous and Joe. DeBoarct.
MISS Norman. Il typewriter for the An
chor company, was taken out fatally
injured The Lewiston printing house.
adjoining the wrecked building. is in
Il totterlnE condition.
Sixteen badly Injured people were
taken out OF the ruins of The different
buildings Most OF them. however,
were employees of the printing house.
il is probable that other deaths will
Follow. Charles Amos n letter car
ricr who was delivering mails In the
Anchor building. was blown out of II
second story window.
The explosion caused general constcr-
nation ana every window for three
blocks were broken. y large plate
glass window In the Merchants E,X-
change. -four blocks away, was shat
tered and the traders stampedcd Up
10 O q clock u. IN. five bodies had been
recovered; four persons are missing. as
iaI' as reported to the police. and the
lnSt and injured number nineteen.
me dead: Joseph kOvnrick. employ
Ell by Lcvison & Blithe: Frank Me
haus boy, employed by Lcvison Il Eli
the: Charles Craybrook. colorcd porter
loi Anchor Peanut Company. Two
cornseS taken from the basement OF the
Excelsior Wire Company.
Tnc missing: Chris. Karger. shipping
G'"ik' excelsior Compnny Thomas
Ley, shipping clerk l;xcclsicr Com
nahN; Al. Mellicr, cmployc Excelsior
Ic company; Charles Ericsson cmploye IIy-
cclSior Company
Ihr injured: Albert Stcinmeyer, pro-
badly fatally; VIII. Brondiwetcr, Chris,
Craft. Horace Diort. l.. Diort, John Cor.
cnian; Edgar Vance, Ben. Taylor. los.
l!randcwidc. Wm. iiorncr. Wm. Co,,Ir.
snare, Hugh Gallcn. Joe Corcornn. Al
bert Schnritz. Henry Stack Richard
Charles Almost.
1hii list of all employees of the four
iirms is not obtainable and probnbIv
he list OF dead will be Increased when
ne runs are ovcrhnulcd. Il; p. Lass
proprietor of the Excelsior Wire Cow.
oahE' says n" Is quite sure five of his
employees did not escape from the build
ihS 'fhe work OF examining the ruins
was continued tonight The total loss
VIII exceed 100000. all Insured
ne II. y. Gruhh Company occupied
ne ground floor OF 300 North Scrnnd
street aud the Anchor Con,nonv thn
Scc"nd and third floors Adioinin,r ,bo
wrecked hlilding on the south is IN.
i.rNiS"h ana Elithc Printing Company.
Mh"rt mms' of the injured were en-
i''"Nc". ne north walls and two floors
went down. ON the north is thn IT,.
crisinr wire building. also partIy w.ro,i,
~, itiln a Faif minute The tbrno
"urlilht;a n,,. were wrapped in flames
,,i ~ p"lice nave made as compleic +,
.'hNaSs as possible tonight of Tho ci,,
10 ascertain the number of mjseim,, o,,aa
~ result is diShcartnninE. Tho lie,
iihS grown to nineteen though II e.
,l"ncd some Of these are tcmporariIw
housed with friends At T o'cin,li ~
body of Albert Mcilicr. aged 1S ,.ns
taken from tho cellar Of III. E,yc.,s;or
h"iiuiilS II waS partly burned
~ iitte AS o'clock groans were heard
IN thc wreck and the police had ,lini.
t"ltN III restraining the anxious re.
lativcs Of the missing. Tho citx az,
n"nsarN was turned into n hospitol o,,n
iuiiy thirty slightly injured persona
besides the list given. wero treated
therc Ihere are four bodies at the NOR,
guc one not yet identified
The scene of the wreck is tho ccntro
Of anxious inquiry from the kindred az
ne missing ones They stand i'm the
nit"f col" ana watch with teaful cvns
the work of the wrcckers
Little work can be done tonight hus
!, VIII be continued until the debris ia
thoroughly searched. 1t is believed tbot
many buildings of the vicinity have
been rendered unsafe and a cessation
"f business about the wrck VIII be had
until thorough inspection is made.
Some of the escapes from death warc
miraculous. James Kennedy. n printer
| uorchct Tor twenty minutes on the
! frame of Il third story window. which
fen Just as the ladder men reached
him. John Marlowr was on The street
in front of the Grubb building. and was
hurled across the street against n horse
| that had been killed against the oppo.
! site wall James Coulashaw, one of the
| injured. was found under the debris
with heavy beam supporting the
wreckaEc above him. \ heavy teIn.
graph pole fell across an express wagon
and killed the horse. John Carney. the
driver escaped uniniurch. These stories
of escape from death are almost innum,
era hlc.