The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-11-29
Twenty-Five Persons Killed in an
Explosion.
AS MANY MORE INJURED
Boilers of Pentberthy Injector Com
pany of Detroit Explode-Eighty-
Five People Employed in the Build
ing-AIl a Total Wreck.

DSllOll, AllSu., 4NON. Ai.- ne DOllSl
in the power building of the Pember-
thy Injector Co., brooklyn and Abbott
streets, exploded at 9:24 O'Clock yes
terday morning. The greater portion
Of the building. 54Xl00 feet in dimen-
sions, three-story brick, rose up bodily
from the ground and fell mass of
ruins. few remaining walls tumbled
down Immediately after, and there
was nothing but a large pile of brick
and debris to mark the spot, from
which masses of smoke and dust
arose.
The Dead.
STEPHEN CRISP, 3S7 Eliot street,
20 years old.
RICHARD RYAN, 3O7 Baltimore av-
enue west, died at Emergency hospital
soon after arriving there.
EUGENE BERTRAM, aged IA, $50
Howard street, chore boy.
At O'Clock the thirteenth dead
body was taken from the ruins. 1t
was so blackened and mutilated that
it was unacceptable. 1t was taken
to Maney's morgue, AZ National ave
nue., where all the dead have been
taken for identification.
A. e. MILLER, aged %, identified at
Maney's morgue by his uncle, from
the clothes.
GUSTAVE HOFFMAN, 36S Brook
IN, aged %, identified by wife.
The last reports obtainable are that
25 bodies in AL have been taken from
he ruins.
The Injured.
Gus Scherer, Edward Gartels, Fred
Rushmeyer, Robert Hurst, Fred Klein,
Louis Donovan, Effie Davis, Anthony
l.. Walker, Charles Auberlin, Peter
Doll, A. p. Gidday, Herman Goldner,
]. NJ. Hoefein, John X. Linowicz, Sam
uel Riley. James Nall, John Vogt, Bert
Dixon, John Lingel, Saul Cowsky, John
Schaible. julius Liebetrau, Edwin
Liebetrau, August Haenches, George
Kelsey, Stephen Noctegall, Ignatius
Brock. Gus Galley, William Knapp,
Albert Martin, William Smith, T. ID.
Crowley. Louis Miller, NJ. F. Deranger,
William Ager, William Bergman.
The Missing.
Tom Mullane, Jacob Koebel, Charles
Lydy.
For a moment or so a dead silence
followed the explosion. The entire
neighborhood seemed stunned and
then there rose shrieks and groans
from those buried under the ruins, and
startled cries from people rushing out
Of the neighborhood houses.
Work of Rescue Begun.
The streets were damned with hui
manity within the next so seconds,
and men. with blood flowing from
wounds, were digging away at the de-
bris. trying to rescue their fellow
workmen. Some OF them tainted while
engaged in the work OF rescue. Num-
bers of injured were taken charge OF
and carried into adjoining houses.
From a pleasant, happy neighborhood
the district was turned into a morgue
and hospital There was scarcely
house but what had It's injured. They
cried for priests and doctors and am
balances. A few surrounding physi-
clans did the best they could, aided
by housewives who tied rough band
ages around the wounds of the in
jured and tried to keep them within
bounds. Some OF them were burned
so badly that they had to be held down
while awaiting physicians.
There were So employees in the
power building at the time Of the eX-
plosion President and General Man
ager S. o. Johnson declares it as his
belief that fully so, IL not more OF
them, lie dead underneath the debris.
The shock was terrific and shook
houses for blocks around until their
occupants thought they were going to
collapse. The company's main fac
tory building, a four-story brick struc-
ture located right across the alley,
which was 60x100 feet in dimensions,
was raked broadcast by masses OF
brick and machinery, and numbers of
employees in that building, men and
girls, were seriously, some of them IA
tally, injured, and the structure caught
fire.
In the front building Of the plant
were about so to 60 employees The
first floor was given over to the Offices
and the shipping room. The second
floor was the tool and pattern room,
with about - employees. The third
floor was the girls core-making room,
with six girls and two men, and the
packing room, with about II employees.
On the fourth floor was the assembling
room and the buffing rooms, with from
IL to 13 employees.
In the tool room Of the second floor
of this building there were SIX men.
The room was located next to the al
ley and the building blown up. Most
Of the men in the room, however, es-
capped with mere injuries.