The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
LIVING LEFT TO DIE.
The Work of Rescue Stopped
at Cincinnati.
BULGING WALLS THREATENED.
To Have Gone on Would Have Meant the
Death of Some of the Rescuers-Eight
Known to BE Dead and Seven Are
Still Missing

CINCINNATI Nav 6.-The burial alive
of well known people has caused gen.
eral distress here. After the explosion
that demolished the five-story building.
occupied by Adolph Drach and Louis
Few on the first floors and with flats on
the four upper floors. relays of workmen
continued removing the debris till fnal-
ly everybody was ordered from the prem
ises, and Walnut street, between Fourth
and Fifth streets, was kept clear Holes
had been made in the walls of adjoining
buildings through which TO extricate VIC
Tins The great mass of debris sup
ported these walls, and its removal
caused the adjacent walls TO bulge out
so that a still greater calamity has been
mOmentarily expected from both SIDES
of the wreckage.
When the street cleaning force and
fremen Were ordered away, IL was be-
heved that there were several persons
still in the debris and some OF them
alive, but the engineers agreed with the
building inspectors that the loss of Inf
10 the workmen was inevitable if they
proceeded. Braces were put up against
the walls and scaffOlds quickly coll
structed. The work of tearing down
adjacent walls Is progressing with all
the debris had to be left to their fate
and no more are likely to be taken out
alive. There have been eight dead re-
covered and seven are still missing
Inouiries have been made at the resi-
denceS of those who are still missing
and there has been nothing seen or
known of them for over 24 hours a
of the injured persons, except John Nc
Carthv, are doing well at the hospital.
Mccarthy has died from internal in
jurieS He begged his brother and the
firemen to kill him when he was first
found i'll the debris, and he suffered IN
tenseiy until his death.
One of the most prominent victims
of the disaster is G.. F. Address, presi-
dent of the Address Meara Wallpaper
COMPANY He was sitting at a table IN
Drach's saloon drinking glass of beer
and reading a paper when the explo-
sion occurred.
The workmen had reached his body
when they We're called out, but they as
certained that he was dead and that i,
was impossible TO extricate the body
without endangering their own lives
He was one of the prominent busine:
men of the city. The body of Matti,
Kennedy was also found by the work
men in the debris. but IL could not bt
brought out and none of the bodies r'
manning in the wreckage can be recov
cred until the danger from the sur
rounding walls is first removed.
The known dead are ROLAND Davis
Hamilton, o.; Ella Singleton. Zanes
vile. O.; Adolph Drach. proprietor o
the cafe in which the explosion Oc
Cured Felicia Drach, aged 5 years 9
s. Wells. recently from Texas; Mar.
Kennedy, domestic for Drach John Nc
CarthV clerk q Fred Address preSi
dent Address Meara Wallpaper com
pany.
Those missing are: William Meyer
Barbara Steinkamp, Louis Fisdick. Jas
Grant. William Roberts, doc" Sea
man. William Lauth, John McGarvey
- SOuthRate, Newport, Ky; -
Lightfoot. Newport, Ky; II. H. Wi
son. Toledo; John Beers, Lafayette
Ind. William Carr. Newport, KY.