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eased the suffering ones as much as tn
were able.

eased the suffering ones as much as they
were able.
Heart-RendinE Scenes.
AS soon as the gravity Of the accident
was realized, calls for additional help
were sent in and apparatus came
flying to the scene from all parts of the
city. While part Of the f1remen directed
tl.eir Efforts at the fire, which was burn
ing fIerceIy in the center of the wreck,
the greater number of them seized axes
and crowbars, and bgan prying out the
victims who could be seen or whose faint
cries were audible.
The department of public works was
notified of the horror and Immediately
sent all it's available men and horses to
the scene. In a comparatively short time
all the laborers who could work to adj
vantage were feverishly throwing
and pulling the debris out in
to Brooklyn avenue, where it was
loaded into wagons and carried off. The
sufferings of those who were buried be-
meath were later mutely testified to by
their charred and blackened bodies.
Engineer Riley was among the first to
be dug out from the wreck. His escane
was little short of miraculous. When the
boiler exploded he was knocked to the
floor and one of the smaller testing
boilers was blown over his PROSTATE form
in such a way that one end rested on
some debris high above him, THEREBY
forming shield that kept the falling
timbers, bricks and machinery from
crushing him. The escaping steam, how
ever, burned him frightfully. After his
arrival at Grace hospital, Riley's first
words We're: How did it happen? The
engine and boilers were all right
Perished in the Flames.
Gradually the rescuers worked their
way downward through the pile By this
time there We're no cries or groans to
aid them, for the flames had destroyed
those unfortunateS who were not killed
by the explosion or the fall. But the
work of rescue continued with undated
haste. When a heavy beam or piece OF
shaft was encountered, a team of horses
was driven in and the piece of wreckage
hauled to the street. Stretcher bearers
stood by and bore away the burned and
blackened bodies. A vacant house adj
joining the factory was converted into
temporary morgue; here the bodies were
placed in collins and taken to the nearest
morgue. In several cases the charred
corpses were so hot when recovered that
they could hardly be handled by the
undertakers and assistants.
The hospitals were bes-eged by relatives
and friends of the injured men. At
Emergency hospital, which was only a
short distance from the scene, and where
many of the injured were carried IN
wagons, the floors of the reception rooms
and even the halls, were used as a tenn
porary resting place for the victims.
Physicians were hastily summoned ana
the work of relief expedited. Similar
scenes were enacted at Grace and Harper
hospitals.
There were a dozen girls among the en-
ployes on the four floors of this build
ing and there was something of panic
among them, but nobody was injured.
The property loss, according to Secretary
George w. Childs, is about s1S0,OOO The
firm carried $4,000 fire and some boiler
insurance, but how much of the latter
Secretary Childs could not state
Nothing Is known as yet about tho
cause Of the explosion. The boilers had
been recently inspected, and the engineer
was known as one Of the most careful
men in the city.