Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-09-09
= A !. B III ED.
Deadly Explosions st Broad. Ripple.
Ind, and Morton, III. @
Former, Caused by Natural Gas, Kills
Six and Injuries Many-Boiler Ex-
plOdes Mt Latter Place. Killing
Two Little Girls-FOur Hurt.

SIX and Injuries Many-BOiler Ex-
plodes ut Latter Place. killing
Two Little Girls-Four Hurt.
indianapolis, Ind, Sept. o.-Broad
Ripple. a.suburb Of indianapolis, ten
miles from the city proper, was satur-
day morning the scene of one of the
nost.t erribl disasters tina tshas ever vis-
tied .thsss ate. .Six persons ssyeresb rnede
|lto sdf Eeeath and many people arelying in T
the shon,e sol ,neigh bors burned. Scared
and racked with pain from broken
bones. Four buildings occupying
block of the townsarg ia 1 rtffns. sOf,thess-
six dead nothing but charred and black
e :fa bones with hanging. strips f.ioll7.
smelling flesh remafn.f ri - ~
The Victims.
Following is list Sofgtheadead and
injured: /
Killed::-Jacob Darling. painter. crushed
BY falling wall. ,,'s Isl - - - :.
Henry Ernest, laborer. - sags,.,3... &. g.,
Plus Gresh. grocer, aged 10. burned to
Albert Heyworth. huckster. westfeld.
John Porter. farmer. 49,
Charles Yount. single. IS. crushed to
death. r%I# - t,z# ~ ~ = =
1njured.-Harry Bolton. Oakland. cut
across knee. 49, i
Charles culbertson. cut by flying glass.
leg hurt. ~ r. .:. -,
Jacob Cruise. four ribs broken.
Jonn Doaks' back broken. will probably
Amos Day, cut in face by glass
Jesse Day, blown out Of second-story
window and badly hurt.
Frank FeatherstOne arm cut 5s=.1 y,
Orville 1Heady, street car conductor. in
jured internally. will probably die. ~ y
f. Wheaton. bruised, .a.sa,.ayv,sa.s.
Emuley Johnson.
Thomas Jones, cut about head
Charles Jones' cut about face and arms
James MITCHELL New Augusta. legs
broken.
Ed Morris. shoulder sdislocated, COM
pound fracture right arm and buihed. 4
- Norvill, Indianapolis, fingers torn. off
and head cut.
Will 70. Privette, deep cut across face. I
CHARLES Roberts. cut over eye.
e ~. vinsfpn Record'lee cut injured about the
= Fan FEank E.s:Watts burned and bruised ny
Edgar Watts. burned and bruised.
|. J. B. Watts, burned. 49,. ~
Joseph Wambaugh. injured about the
body.
Glare Whitaker. Oakland; ankle broken. ;
81 OliyeF Wight. bruised and cut ID i
VIZ IA. m THE FIRST 1xplosion.8s 81 !,
At ten o'clock foul odor was noticed
in the drug store of j. M. Watts, and a
lamp ina dark room used for amateur
photography went out. It was1lighted,
and as the burning match was thrown
to the floor streaks of flame of a blush
tint ran along the joints between the
boards, showing The presencezof escap-
ing natural gas, and then up the walls.
The next instant the exposion came.
The walls were hurled gins every direc-
ton and the atopzof tile Building fell
with crunching, grinding sound, COW
eringsal. The ruins were burning i'm
mediately and sshrieks could be heard
from those buried beneath.
OF the seven persons in the building
three were sburned alive The rest are
still alive and may recover: "2:#$ ~
The Second Explosion.
sAsAahundreds persons were at work on ,
the ruins and trying to save Gresh's
grocery, adjoining, pulling at the ruins
to save those buried beneath. While
thus engaged and 20 minutes after the
first explosion when the second came
from beneath the, grocer " it was with
a::mig hty ! oar: and hurled the building
to atoms. Forty people were Knocked
sensefess, were strewn in all directions
with broken bones and burned bodies.
while many more escaped with small
bruises. This shock made the whole
town culver. Beneath these ruins Plus
Gresh, the groceryman, was caught and
crushed to death. His body was recov-
cred before it was entirely burned.
The ruins were added to those of the
building adjoining. demolished by the
first explosion, and the whole mass. to-
gether with an adjoining frame cottage
and livery stable, was burned to ashes,
only the bucket brigade being on hand
in time to do any good, sandsitis prob
able only prolonged the agony of the
victims who were burned.
The money loss will likely not amount
to more than $4,000. All of the build
ings destroyed were wooden ones.
TWO GIRLS KILLED.
Awful Result Of a Boiler Explosion nj
es@ss Morton, III. ,.ags1a@.s. .sz
Peoria, ILL.,, Sept. 6.-Morton, Taze-
well county, ten miles from Peoria, was
the scene OF. terrible explosion Sun