The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-06
SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD
SIX Bodies Taken FrOni the Ruins
at Philadelphia.

-Four Explosion Victims Dying in a
Hospital and sixteen Others Miss
inE-List Of the Injured Numbers
IO7-sn investigation in Progress
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. s.-Firemen
and laborers are digging today IN the ~
ins Of the FIVE buildings on Locust Street.
between Tenth and Eleventh Streets.
which We're destroyed by an explosion
last night
Thus Tar six bodies have been taken
out, and. as sixteen persons are reported
missing. they are supposed 20 be dead in
the ruins. Four more victims now IN the
Pennsylvania Hospital are not likely 10
survive the day. The list OF injured thus
far shows that ID persons have been
treated at the hospitals.
The wrecke.1 buildings form one Of the
slun spots OF the city and a summary
OF the work done by the explosion foI-
lows
Partially destroyed.
40. 1oS-PooI room and lodging house
kept by Samuel Fidman. three story brick
with frame attic roof
Totally destroyed.
No IoI0-Second hand clothing store.
Morris R7senthaI: wife and five children
live there; two-story brick with frame at
tic roof
NO lol2- Restaurant Of William Jones,
eoIored, and lodging house, fifteen rer-
soHs- said 10 have lived there. two-story
brick with a frame attic roof
No lol+-Grocery store Of George Nc
Clenny. proprietor, clerk and servant
ave believed to have been in the place:
McClenny wife's and three children went
20 West Philadelphia on visit yesterday
afternoon. twO-story brick. attic roof
No lel6-Grocery store Of Patrick Quig-
ley his wife, three children and an uncle
lNed there with him, two-stOTy brick, at
tic roof
NO lIN-Albert MOUNTAINS meat and
grocery store, his wife. mother. and sister
and a clerk and a cook lived there me
sister and the cook are the only ones
missing, twO-st0ry brick. attic roof.
Fronts blown out.
No lol3 A J. Cars ice ana meat store
No lol5, John KIings rag shop: No. lMI.
Ichn Vests restaurant. No 1913. James
& Horner.s restaurant, No. lszI. Samuel
Semless. cigar store; 80. lez5. Mrs. Null
croHe's grocery story All OF these are
two-stOry structures.
IN south NaruOck Street. totally de-
stroyod.
SO. -zI-HOme or Charles Francis and
VIE Aasgie Williams and Annie Miners.
ali colored. ali escaped.
No z2-House and stable Of Robert Il.
sf...a E-
The house was only slightly damared-
Hughes horse was killed.
The cause OF The explosion fs saf5 .,
have been quantity Of gasoline In m
basement Of grocery store kept bv
Georse McClenny- The building was a
lwo-st0ry brick structure with the store
occupying the first floor Il went uD with
a roar and four adjoining buildings OF
similar construction were torn 10 pieces
hy the force Of the explosion The air
was hl-ed with flying debris. a few sec
oH-s later tHe spot where the hve sub
stautial buildings had stood was heaDed
up with q confused mass OF wreckaee.
IN this pile OF brick, timbers. and struc-
tural work were buried the bodies Of the
victims OF the disaster II was impossible
10 sain any accurate account OF the per
sons in the buildings at the time Of the
explosion and only with tha discoveries
Of the starchers among the ruins did the
extent Of the disaster begin 10 be apuar-
cnt
BY the prOmptness Of the IRE depart-
ment. the flames which started IN the
WreCkage We're subdued in less than half
an hour and a worse loss Of life by fire
among the ruins where the injured were
imprisoned, was prevented. over forty
injured were removed 10 the Jefferson
and Pennsylvania hospitals.
The shock OF the explosion forced out
the front Of the Western Savings Fund
Bank at Tenth and Walnut Streets. two
blocks away from -he scene Of the ex-
p-usion and for four blocks in every di-
rection not pane Of glass remained
q hole In consequence Of the weakening
Of structures indicated in various ways,
over 30 persons were warned TO leave
their homes IasJ night as q precs tioaary
measure
The shock also caused the city han to
shake. SO that persons there thought
there had been an explosion in t',a base
ment- In the bank OF the Western saw
ings Fund, at Tenth and Walnut streets. a
plate glass window half an inch thick was
blown 20 pieces. NOT a fragment six inches
square could be found
Tho fire marshal. assisted by three IN
surarce men, IS making "a careful invesri-
CATION Of the ruins. but as yet the cause
Of me deadly explosion. as wei as the
actual place Of the explosion. has not been
definitely determined.