The Portland daily press., 1896-05-06
A SCORE ARE DEAD.
Further Details of the Cincinnati
Disaster.

Partial List of the victims-Exciting
and Pathetic Incidents Connected With
On.
Cir cinnati, O.. May 5.-Not one brick
upon another was left this morning in
the front and rear walls of the five story
building Nos. 430 and 432 Walnut street,
which was blown up last night.
The victims SO far reported are:
Dead-B. A. Davis Adolph Draohs,
Minnie Kennedy, David holland,
travelling man; child of Mr.. Draohs,
two unidentified men. R. A. Fricke.
Injured-Peter Burns. VIM. Cook,
Willard E. Cook, W. D. Crosby. Fisher,
Louis Fey, wife and baby; Charles
Filley, Conductor Folllard, Harry
Hawick, Fred Healey, H. E. Hunwick,
Huron. Barbara Huttleson, James j.
James, Salt Lake City Herald Sid john
son, VIM. Lauth, VIM. Lohrde, John Nc
earthly, Joseph Memmel, Mr.. Healy,
Herman Nolte. Jr., Joseph Sprague,
James spriggs, oolored; motorman,
Stoffels, j. D. Ward. At the time of the
crash the electric lights and the arc lights
for the trolleys were thrown down and
i the flashes from the severed wires were
appalling.
1t was this which caused the stampede
in the Gibson house. the flashing and
| cracking of the wires giving the guests
the impression that fire had broken out
In the building. A general stampede
from the streets to points Of shelter was
made and in the hurry and tumult
several persons were injured.
| -Four stories of the building in which
the explosion occurred were used as flats,
and housed a number of families.
| In the lower part of the building were
the saloons of Adolph Draohs and lewis
Fey. In those two PLACES there were at
| the time of tho disaster at least score of
people.
The scene Of the explosion was but four
| doors from the intersection of Fifth and
Walnut streets, where the post Office is
located. No part of the city during the
night or day Is more crowded than this.
The police and fire department, however,
worked like heroes and materially aided
| in reducing the loss of life. One startling
incident was the wrecking of street car
that was passing at the time. In the car
We're fifteen OF twenty passengers. and
when the crash came the vehicle was al
| l.
the windows was shattered and the pas
| sengers made wild rush to escape Five
or SIX OF them were badly hurt. The
motorman of the car was blown from the
platform and fatally hurt.
| The body OF Drachs was found crushed
against wall OF the cellar, his skull
| f1attened. The flremen came within
few feet of Mrs. Draohs, whose hands
| they could reach. She was finally re-
leased, after lying pinioned by the foot
for five hours. with baby in her arms.
She had been in sight for over two hours
| and stimulants were passed down to her
| at intervals. The baby was lying on her
breast apparently unin1ured. Some of
| those who were in the saloons were
thrown out on the sidewalk and suffered
slight injuries.
The damage to property is estimated at
| $40, 900, while that to life will not be
fully known until the ruins have
| been cleared away. Women whose hus-
bands AID sons had not reached home by
| ten OF eleven O'Clock came down to Four
tain square and filed up the space about
| the government buildings while the most
| OF them remained all night bewailing the
| loss of their loved ones.
There were quite number of men
among these weeping ones. Among the
list OF injured given above many had
arms and legs broken and some had
heads, hands and faces badly cut.
B. A. Davis, general manager of the
| Columbia Carriage company, Hamilton,
fOhio, was passing the place at the time
AMI was blown into the street, falling
undar eh electric car and was crushed to
death.Ny.
Mr. James, of the Salt Lake City
| Herald, mad just left the Gibson house to
get into his train for the West. He was
knocked through an open door into
tailor shop and rendered unconscious
| Fireman MCCARTHY found his brother
pinioned under heavy beam and beg
ging some one to kill him. MCCARTHY
said there were three other men near him
and they were alive Efforts to liberate
| these suffering men We're then made.
Herman Nolte. Jr., was standing by
barber shop pole in an adjoining building
| when struck by some debris and suffered
broken leg and other injuries
The missing this AFTERNOON are Jospeh
Wirkener, William Louth, Barbara Stein
kamp, Mortimer Okabe, Louis Fisdeck,
Mamie Kennedy, - Iightfoot ana
- Southgate
| Mamie Kennedy, whose body was sup
| posed to have been recovered, is still
among the missing. The body which
WAS supposed to bs hers has been identI
fed as that of Ella Singleton.