The age-herald., 1901-11-27
Fire Breaks Out and Victims Penned Under the Debris
 Roasted to Death 1MBULANCESARE INADEQUATE Injured Hauled In Wagons to The Hospitals, Which Are Filled to
 ovcrfiowing--cause of Ex
 pIosion Is Unknown.

so terribly burned and blackened that Identification Is almost impossible and twenty-four other men are lying in the various hospitals of the city suffering from terrible cuts, burns and other in- the boilers in the Penberthy Injector Com pany's large plant at the corner of Ab- bot street and Brooklyn avenue, at 9:S0 o'clock today.
 Following are the dead.
 Louis Henning, R. Mulkee, Jos. Koseck. George Schenor, Charles Lydy, Jacob Keobel. Wm Mann. Christopher Wald- man, Robert Greer, John Scaibel Richard Ryan, Douglass Dickinson, boy; Peter Doll, A. F. Hoffman, lathe hand; James Coffey. lathe hand; A. E. Miller. lathe hand; Eugene Betram. lathe hand; Edward Burch, lathe hand; Charles Marvin, lathe hand; Stephen Crisp, lathe hand; Patrick Malloy, car penter.
 Some of the Injured.
 The injured at the hospitals:
 Samuel Riley, engineer, condition crit ical bad burns; "A. T. Trigg, suf- fering from burns; John Hoffein, badly burned; John Klinzwicz, badly burned. probably die; Herman Goldner, burned about the back Tony Walker, foreman of the molding depart ment, nose broken and badly burned; John vogt, bruised and suffering from shock James Nall, back injured: Sol Graupe, slight burns Bert Dickson, minor injured; John Dingal, injured about head; Julius Liebeten, arm broken and slightly burned; Edward Liebeten, boy, burns John Kelsey, head badly cut; Stephen Nachtigel, slight; Ignatius Brock. slight; Gus Galley. head and arms in- jured; William Knapp, head cut and suf- fering from shock; Bert Martin. leg and arm injured; l.. D, Crowley, slight; Louis Miller slight; Mike Deranger, burned about head; William Ager. boy. several bad burns and seriously bruised; Will liam Begeman arm cut.
 In addition to these a dozen or more of the employees who suffered compara- lively slight injuries aside from the shock were taken directly to their homes. Eighteen men have not as yet been located. either at their homes or at the hospitals. The five unidentified bodies account for five of these, and the officers of the company say they feel positive that the major portion of the remaining fifteen are by tonight at their homes.
 Tonight great force of men is search ing the ruins by electric light and the work will not be stopped until every foot of the debris has been examined
 Description of Plant.
 The company's plant occupied half a square at the corner of Abbott street and Brooklyn avenue It was composed of two brick buildings separated by six teen foot alley. The rear building, in which the boiler was located, and which was completely destroyed, was three stories in height fifty-four feet in depth and 100 feet wide The boiler room was on the first floor. The first floor was utilized as the engine and boiler room and room for testing the output of the plant. The finishing and brass manu- featuring department was located on the second floor and the third floor was devoted to the foundry. It is said that not over eighty-fve men were at work in the various departments of this rear building when the explosion 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 injectors. It was the horizontal boilers that was in use this morning which let go and caused the awful loss of life.
 Heart-Rending Scenes.
 The awful crash came without the slightest warning. Those in the front building said it seemed like the concus- sion of an 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. 1d.xx t.. were broken by the concussion and flying bricks filled the neighboring yards A dense cloud arose and as 1t settled. and was succeeded by denser clouds of sm oke and steam agonized cries began to come from the heap of tangled wood, metal and bricks. Those who were only partly buried. frantically dug themselves out, and then as energetically turned to dig ging for their companions who were buried deeper. Flames broke out almost immediately and the horror of fire was added to the sufferings of the imprisoned ones.
 Neighboring houses were turned into temporary hospitals and those physicians who were in the vicinity eased the suffer- ing ones as much as they were able. The first ambulances on the scene were to- tally inadequate to carry those who had already been extricated, and express wagons and other vehicles were pressed into service.
 While part of the firemen directed their efforts to the fire the greater number seized axes and crowbars and began pry- ing out the victims who could be seen or whose faint cries were audible.
 In comparatively short time all the laborers who could work to advantage were feverishly throwing and pulling the debris out into Brooklyn avenue.
 The floors and roof had fallen at an an- gle and formed a sort of huge cover, un- der which the fire burned flercely Not until the firemen had chopped through this did the stream of water begin to have an appreciable effect on the flames. The sufferings of those who were buried beneath were later mutely testified to by their charred and blackened bodies.
 Engineer Comes Out Alive.
 Engineer Riley was among the first to be dug out from the wreck. His escape was little short of miraculous. When the boiler let go he was knocked to the floor and one Q. the smaller testing boilers