The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-05-09
GASOLINE RESPONSIBLE.
Ruin and Death Follow an Explo-
sion In Cincinnati
Dulldlng Collapscs ard Six fersons Are
Kuied-~List Of the Victims A Treach-
erous stove Gets In Its Work
la Brooklyn.

Cincinnati. May 5.--What may prove
TO be the most disastrous calamity OF
Che year occurred In this city Monday
night. when five-story brick structure.
filled with people, cong ietely collapsed
and fell. conglomerate mass or brick
and shattered timbers. burying the UNI
fortunate inmates beneath it's ruins.
II "a impossible TO say how many per-
eons have been killed, somc placing the
number as high as 40. other as low as
is. Up TO midnight six persons were
known to be dead. and eleven injured.
Following Is list OF the unfortunates;
The Victims.
DrAp-R oliln A. Davis, or rhe Columbia
Carriage company Hamilton. o.; Adolph
Dfach. proprietor OF the saloon: Felicia
Drach. his nye-year-old daughter: G. y.
Wells IS Harrison street; ELLA singleton,
OF GAINESVILLE domestic In Drach family;
Mamie Kennedy domestic IN Foys fam
lily.
unknown man said 10 have entered Drach's
saloon a few minutes before the explosion
william Lauth. barkeeper for Drach; Bar
bara steinkamp. Louis Fisdick, John Nc
Garvoy. c.. II. Address. John Beers. James
Grant and william Carr.
INJuRED-Willard T.. Cook confusion OF
elbow and iacerated brow; Emil Drach,
compound fracture OF right arm and iacer-
ated scalp: Olga Drach: confusion OF
head and limbs; II. II, Hunwick. right
shoulder dislocated: Peter Burns. severe
Commissions OF body: Charles Spilley, con-
lusion OF head and arm: Sidney w. John
son. scalp iacerated; John Mccarthy, con-
tusione OF head. legs and abdomen; Bar
bara Huddseimann, eyes injured; Joseph
8priKgs. face and arms burned. job. Ward.
OF Toledo, left knee laccrated.
IL Is thought several OF the injured
will die. IL is known that more victims
are In the ruins. No accurate state
ment can be given on this point until
tho debris shall have been cleared away.
The building was situated on the east
side of Walnut street just south OF Fifth
street. The lower floor was occupied
by Drachs saloon. The upper apart
ments were rented out TO dodgers.
The explosion was caused by the
ignition of gasoline tank. Adolph
Drach. proprietor of the saloon on the
lower floor had recently placed a gaso-
line engine In his cellar for the purpose
OF generating his own gasoline fuel,
Best authorities agree that the commu-
tator Of the engine had burned out,
The explosion came like thunder
clap from a clear sky. Eyewitnesses say
that the building was seen to shake for
an instant and then 10 slump In, and al
most second later only an indiscrimi-
nate mass OF ruins remained. The
walls OF the two adjoining buildings on
either side stood up stack and naked.
Gasoline stove Explodes
Brooklyn. N. H.. May 6.-By the ex-
plosion OF gasoline stove In a fiat
house at the corner Of Bushwiclx and
johnson avenue Tuesday morning,
three persons were burned TO death and
three persons seriously injured. Mrs.
Hcbecca Cohen attempted TO light a
gasoline stove ia the kitchen of her
apartments about $3.50 o'clock a. IN.
when the stove exploded. The woman's
clothing caught fire and she ran TO her
two children, Karl, IL months old, and
solomon. three years old, and clasped
them in her arms, setting their clothes
on fire. The woman then ran across
the hallway TO the apartments OF her
sister, Mrs. fastanack, screaming loud
~ for help. Mrs. Pastnnack endeavored
10 eNtinEuiNn tine nre m Nfiicn ncr sis
ter was enyeloped. and in doing SO her
own clothing caught Mrs. Pastannclx.
with her clothing on fire. ran TO her two
children, solomon, eight years old, and
Rosie, two years old, and lifted them in
her arms. The two women and the four
children. their clothing ablaze, then ran
into the hallway. Help soon arrived
and Mrs. Cohen was taken TO st. Catha-
fines hospital. but died before reaching
there. Mrs. Pastannck was found dead
IN corner OF the hallway, and the
Cohen children were found badly
burned In Mrs. Cohen's apartments.
They were taken 20 st. Catharine's
hospital but Karl died shortly after
reaching there. Itiscxpccted that Solo
mon Cohen will recover. The Pasta
mack children were removed 10 the
hospital. but they are so badly burned
that the physicians have little hope OF
saving them.
strange Affair In Iowa.
Burlington, Ia, May 0.--Whiie boring