The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-27
TolloNlng are the dead:

A. " HOFFMAN. Louis Hennng,
pktrick Malloy, A. " Miller,
Eugene Bortram, Il. Mukec,
Joseph Cp1ey Charles Marvin,
Joseph koScCk. stephen Crisp,
George Schnod, Charles Lydy,
Jacob kocbcl, William Mann,
Chris Wnldman, Robert Greer
Edward RurCh, Iohn Schnahle,
Richard Ryan, Douglas Dickinson,
Peter Doh, n boy,
Five unidentified bodies
Tho injured AT the hospitals are;
samuel Riley, engineer. condition serious;
bad burns.
a. \, Gidday, suffering from burns.
John lloheln, badly burned.
John klnzwitz. badly burned; will proba-
bly, die
Herman Colder, burned about back.
Tony Walker, foreman OF the molding
department. nose broken and badly burned.
John Voght bruised and suffering from
shock.
James Nail, back injured
Sol Graupe slight burus.
Bert Dickson. minor injuries.
Iohu Dinpnl, injured about head.
julius Lcibelon, arm broken and slight
Edward fcihelcu. hody burns
George Kelsey. head badly cut.
stephen Nachtigcl, slight injuries.
lgnatlus Brock, slight injuries,
Gus Galley head and arm injured.
william Knapp, head cut and suffering
from shock
Bert Martin. leg broken.
L. d. Crowley, slight,
louis Miller. slight
Michael Deranger, burned about head.
William Ager. hoy, several bad burns
3nd seriously bruised.
William Begeman, arm cut.
In addition to these dozen or NJ r .,fm-
ployes who suffered comparatively ~Tght
Injuries, aside from the shock, we g.vteisan
directly to their homes. EghtH =. en-
have not as yet been located, either Mt their
homes or Mt the hospitals. The FIVE un-
Identified bodies account for some Of these
and the officers OF the company say they
feel positive that the major portion OF those
remaining uuaccountod for are by tonight
at their homes.
Tonight a great force Of men is searching
the ruins by electric light and the work
viii not be stopped until every foot Of the
debris has been examined.
The Pcnpcrthy Injector compauy's plant
occupied half n square at the corner Of Alb
bolt street and brooklyn avenue. It was
composed Of two brick buildings separated
by slxteen.foot alley. The rear build
Ing in which the boiler was located and
which was completely destroyed, was three
stories in height, ffty.four feet In depth
and 100 feet in width The boiler room was
on the first floor. The first floor was
utilized as the engine and boiler room aud
a room for testing the output or the plant
The finishing and brass manufacturing de-
partment was located in the second floor
and the third floor was devoted 70 the
foundry. 1t is said that over eighty-dge
men were at work IA the various depart
ments OF this rear building when the cX-
plosion occurred. There were four boilers
In the plant two horizontal ones, which
furnished steam for the engines, and two
vertical boilers which were used solely to
test lnjectors. IT WAS the horizontal boil
er that was in use this morning which let
60 and caused the awful loss OF life.
The awful crash came without the slight
est warning Those in the front building
said II seemed like the concpssion Of M
immense cannon. The floors and roof of
the rear building bulged upward and then
crashed down with their heavy loads of
machinery and foundry apparatus. Walls,
roofs and all dropped into a shapeless mass
OF debris. Windows in houses for n block
around were broken by the conclusion and
dying bricks nlIed the neghboring yards.
dense cloud OF dust arose and as 1t
settled and was succeeded by dense clouds
Of smoke and steam, agonizing cries began
to come from the heap Of tangled wood.
metal and brick.
Those who were only partly buried frantI-
cally dug themselves out and then as ener-
getlcally turned TO digging for their com.
rades who were buried deeper. Flames
broke out almost immediately and the