The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-09
WE'RE INJURED
TERRIFIC EYPLOSION IN CHICAGO
 FIREWORKS FACTORI.

It Was Caused by the Careless Dropping
 of a Match-Building Soon Ablaze From
 CelIay to Roof-A Panic Produced in the
 Vicinity of the Disaster-Air Filled With
 Flying Missiles.
 Chicago, June 8.--A match carelessly dropped by a workman in the fireworks factory of MT Schuer tonight caused a terrific explosion, and a number of employees were badly hurt by flying rockets and candles. Many of the workmen had gone home; otherwise lives would probably have been lost.
 Following is the list of injured:
 Mrs. Maggie Kenny, struck by a runaway horse, bruised and cut; Miss Minnie Theuey, bruised and cut; M. Scheur, proprietor fireworks factory, badly cut by glass; Georgie Grant, cut by glass; Mrs. Kate Grant, cut by glass; Obin Temper, cut on head by falling beam; Fred A. Stiles, motorman on passing cable car, severely bruised and cut by being thrown from his car; Andrew Lawson, conductor on the same, bruised by being thrown from car; c. N. Smith, cut by glass while walking on the street; Phillip Shepard, struck in back by sky rocket, while on the opposite side of the street. un- conscious and badly hurt; J. F. Harris, cut by glass; Edward Hayes, passenger on cable car, head cut by falling glass; Samuel Brasnik, tailor, jumped from balcony, leg broken; John BeckWaret, back cut; William Blaha, injured by a runaway horse; Max Brazinick, spine injured by a fall; Patrick Hursey. struck by falling beam and several ribs fractured; unknown boy, run over by Fire Chief Swenies buggy; oscar Berlke, clerk for Yondorff Brothers. struck by falling walls, not seriously injured; c. M. Gordon, hurled through a plate glass window into a saloon and badly cut
 The following were slightly injured by flying glass, but all are expected to recover: Nellie Burke, Peter Bullitt Ludwig S. Sikow, Frank Picke, Charles Cardiff and Alpha Jones.
 The force of the explosion was So great that nearly all the windows in the block were demolished, and the Schuer building, which is four-story structure, was badly damaged. Imme- diately following the explosion the building was ablaze from cellar to roof and the fire department had a desper- ate struggle before it succeeded in ex- tinguishing the flames. The building was almost entirely destroyed by fire however, and such portions of the large stock of fireworks as had not been scattered throughout the neighborhood by the explosion were also destroyed. The explosion caused a panic in that portion of the town for a time, and the widest stories were current regarding the number of killed and wounded. It happened at a time when the street was crowded with people on their way to their homes, and the street cars which pass the front of the building every few minutes, were packed with passengers. The flying missiles from the factory struck number of per sons, and one man who was gazing into a store window fully four hundred feet distant had his attention sudden ly attracted to other matters by a rocket which hit him squarely in the back
 He fell to the sidewalk unconscious and was carried to the hospital before he was able to give his name. The majority of those injured have receiv- ed but trifing hurts and will be around within a day or two. The loss to the building and contents is estimated al S6O 900.