Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-05
i TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

!. r Brick Buildings Blown to
Pas at Cincinnati.
,- Floor of Each Was
"a saloon, and the Upper
=s- ~ .r.ivine Rooms for Fami-
Gasoline Tank in the Gel
- 80 'Go-wmdows Smashed
~s-ss Around-Many Per-
T-sd and Buried in the
s.-ss-Fortunately There Was
y9Fra
- Ohio. May At eight
The fye-sJory building
r.V.nut street, between
r-s streets, was blown TO
10 explosion Of gasoline.
e.s So .err.dc that it was
rho c..y. and not one brick
e., in the front and
building, while the adj
--es are badly damaged,
..rtae windows Of the Glib
m and large Johnson building
. were all broken. The
ou. Of street cars that
...-. .aa time and one OF the
-.r wrecked. but none OF
were seriously hurt.
.-. horses in the immediate
.-, broke from their tasten-
-. away and there was not
..-s. excitement, but also the
Confusion.
.vrSao took place four doors
-.- .ra-sec,i0n from Fifth and
.- where tine pOsJotiice Is
M one side and Fountain
e other. No part OF the
vs more at that time o. the
s-. there were soon many
o- people about Fountain
and rla space around the gov
non. building while Walnut street
r.s-aly blocked.
r-- were a- first reports about hre
being ored i'm the building and
dynamite and ammunition,
lhere were several Stampedes
-t IN -re immense crowd on che re-
--s about other explosions likely 10
Several people were slightly
% these S-ampedes.
he cornd floor of 49, Walnut street
us occupied by Adolph c. Drach as q
l he owned that part OF the
ding and the other part was owned
y. Goldsmith. and the first floor OF
building at 430 Walnut street was
OCCUPIED BY A SALON
t Louis Fey. The upper floors or
.s -o~ buildi0r We're occnnied as
not known az 10 o'clock how
people we're iD the flats or how
-- we're in the saloons. but none cS-
as the building Immediately COLI
There was no fire 20 consume
Debris and make certain death n
70 the building, but the DUST and
w-.uUed flying for q long time SO
that the work of roscuing the
ms proceeded with great difficulty.
-1 The police and fire departments
h.rocally 10 the work.
Tho a'cons we're said 90 be quite full
ra One OF the tarkeepers who
- ON duty at the time and os-
lived FRI one o. the upper flats.
was Wild with srief because he
-a1- his wife and four children
- -le ruins
Nh o' the children was recovered.
soon after the explosion.
are wild reports about the eN-
..'ra loss of life. Six bodies were
d Un -0 9.3o p. m.. and IL is
pm -'3r there are many more. The
Pom a-e working I'm the rear and on
rs.7- NJ tho wreck. while the police
at1r- the place clear and protect
work. trq- is Going ~, to rescue
PARE .s ono Of the side walls is stiU
- md on The fifth floor. plainly
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