The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-02
Fire Also Broke Out, and the Wrecked
Plant Closed Down.
THE OTHER AT MANlSTEE, MICH.
In Chapman & Sargenrs Bowl Facto-
r,-One Man aud Four Cbildren
Drowned at Blaok Rock. toun.,
While Sea Bathing - Six
Hundred Lives Lost iii
Japan Mine.

PITTsBURG. PA. september IA
boiler explosion az tho Republic Iron
Works. on south Twenty-fourth street.
shortly before daylight today killed nyo
men and seriously injured seven others.
A are which broke out following the ex-
ploslon added 90 Che horror The MIL
was partly wrecked and the entire plant
was compelled ,o close down.
The l.s. of the killed and injured is as
follows.
KILLED.
David Matthews. "a heater married
William Thomas. he1tasTmarried.
Thomas Brlraus. a. heater m~tIleu-
John KarWInsN, "a hentef.
John Evans. crushed almost beyond re-
cognti0n
The fatally injured
Nalachi napahue f0rty-elght years old'
puddIer. badly burned.
Neal Donahuc h.s son. tweniy-eight
years old. burned about the head an"
breast .
Frederick Herb. a helper foriy-eight
veaw old: skull fractured and burned All
over the body.
The explosion occurred just as the nisht
force was leaving and the day force was
,.,r.e, on dutv So that there were only
Ii fow mon in the mill at the time. n IL
had mppend half am hour later the ISIS
or deaths and injured would have been
appalling.
TERRIFIC CONCUsslON.
II occurred I'm the f0urVen-inch DEPART
mont ana the conclusion was tefrihc:
Buildings were shaken a mile away ana
dust dlled the air for two or three DOCKS
il entered open windows and nearly SUI
fOcated persons who We're aroused py mo
roar and the shock
Immediately following the explosion me
wreck1ge took fire and this added % me
difficulty encountered lin reSculns inc
burned ana muuiaied victims
When the boiler burst section Of IL
Weighing four tons was blown through
th. roof and crushed iuto the side of mo
house of Gregory Sanders. on Wr.ght5
alley. about two hundred yards distant
The building which was ~ frame. was
wrecked. but the occupants escaped Win
"a bad fright This flying portion ot tho
boiler tore down the central supports ~
the roof which fell in and partially
buried some OF those injured
The cause of the explosion has not YET
been determined. The damage 10 tho
plant was heavy. but the firm cannot now
estimate d.
BOWL FACTORYs BOILER.
NrANTsTFE MICH. Sept 1.-The boiler
I'm Chapman s. sargents' Bowl Factory az
Copem'sh. three miles north of here. eN-
ploded this evening killing three men ana
fatally miurlng four others. The dead.
Charles Handy. George Estabro0k Perry
Melaf0nt The fatally Injured are piiFer
Sanders Robert Peterson Charles Taylor.
Howard Ketchum. George Rice was
severely but not fatally scadei. The
building was totally wrecked, utpfla
being scattered for eighty rods around.
Water was Immediately thrown on inc
ruins and ire prevented
DROWNED WHILE bAIhlN"'
RRIDGEPORT. CONN sept l--one
man AVID four rhldrcn three girls ana
one boy were drowned at Black ko 10
day while sea- bathing
The 'dead: EnjIh Mddiebrook. farmer
and ice dealer of East0n, Nay Mlla'e-
brook fourteen years. his daughter. lnhy
Koehicr. fourteen years ODD. ot i.asion'
Ethel Uitt. eleven ycus DID, ot hrin-e-
port. Florence HIT fourteen years oi''
her sister.
THE fye victims with Andrew Koeh'er
fotbor of the drowned boy, and Louis
Hitt of this city father of two of tae
drowned girls were spending the day at
Rlao< Rock near the mouth of Ashd
Cr.ok. Whro go bathing they an got be-
vond their sdeoth Koeh'er and Iiit sue
ceeded I'm getting ashore thems.iy but
TIE others persisted.
THREE of the bodies were recovered
SIX HUNDRED PERISH
YOKOHAMA. September i.-s.N hundred
lives have been lost by the a oflns of a
conner mine at Bessm Island of shikoku.