The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-05-08
SIX PEOPLE HEEf DEATH.
A Building in Cincinnati DenolisAsd By =
Gasoline Explosion.
Many People Buried BeEeath the Ruins
and Fears are Entertained thst
More Have Been Killed.


and Fears are Entertained that
More Have Been Killed.
CINCINNATI, May Sat eight o'clock
last night the fivs-story building, $50
and 432 Walnut street, between Fourth
and Fifth streets, was blown to the
ground by an explosion 81 gasoline.
The shock was so terrific that it was
felt all over the city, and not one brick
upon another is left in the front and
rear walls Of the building, while the
adjacent buildings we're badly damaged.
The glass was broken out Of street cars
that we're passing at the time and one
Of the cars was badly wrecked, but none
of the passengers were seriously hurt.
All the horses in the immediate neigh
borhood broke from their fastenings
and ran away and there was not only
intense excitement but the greatest
confusion. There are Wild reports
about the extent of the loss Of life.
Six bodies were recovered mp to 900 p.
NJ, and it is known that there are many
more. The excitement vas the more
intense because it could not be deRni-
tely learned for some time what caused
the explosion. 1t was finally ascertain
ed that the saloons in the building had
put in their own electric plants for in.
candsscent lights and had just secured
Ia gasoline engine with which to run
the dynamo. The plantgot out of fiz
and there was a fash which communi
Gated to the dynamo and caused the
explosion. The sudden collapse Of the
large building smOthered everything in
the cellar so that there was no Ere
The fremen were soon assisted by some
expert engineers who made openings
through the basement walls of ada
cent buildings and we're recovering
some of the victims in that manner.
AS the night passed, the scenes about
the wrecked building became more
distressing than ever. Women whose
husbands and sons had not reached
home came down to the Fountain
square and filled up the space about
the government building. wheFe the5
were weeping and crying about theil
friends being in the wrecksge. Theri
we're quite a number of men among
these weeping ones. At 1870 the three
year-old boy of Adolpb Drachs wa
taken from the ruins so badly hur
that he is not likely to live. The fsmi
Iy Of Adolph DTBchs suffered mos
severely. DFachs and his wife ART
numbered among the dead, his Eve
year-old daughter is dead and his three
year-old boy is believed to be dying
holland Davit, a travelling man for tn,
Columbus Carriage company, of Hamil
ton, O., and two others, unidentified
complete the list Of those known to b.
dead. There were about Is others Wit
were mora OF less injured.
| A most touching scene occurred
when Fireman John Mccarthy found
his brother pinioned under a heaVl
beam and begging the men above Il
kill him. Mccarthy said there wer
| three other men near him and the.
we're alive. The most heroic efforts T.
| liberate these sufferers were continues
up to midnight. It was thought earl
in the evening that Mrs. Draohs, q
we'll as her husband, was killed. Tn
body of Mr.. DFachs was recovered an
taken to the morgue. As Mrs. Drach
was known to be in her fiat at the tim
of the explosion she was counte
among the dead, but her body wa
reached shortly before midnight an
she was found TO be still alive. Sh
was suffering intense pain and all th
efforts of the wOFkmen failed to rescu
, her. Jack MCCARTHY, Peter Burns an
Charles Tilley were taken out of th
ruins about midnight, but it is feare
: that none of them will live. WOrkme
I reported at 12:45 that one Of Mr.
Drachs' children vas certainly sti
alive, as they could plainly hear
, calling Emamma." They said that Il
: servant girl of Mrs. Drachs, name u
3 known, was dead and lying by Mr.
D Drachs' side.
Hill still Talking,