Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-06
TIE DEADLY GASOLINE.
Six Buildings Torn to Atoms in
 Philadelphia.

Six Persons Lost Their Lives 1n The
 Explosion Forty Eight Persons
 Were Removed From The Scene of
 The Explosion to The Hospitals
 The Property Loss Will Reach Near
 ly $1oo,ooO.
 Philadelphia, Aug 6.-Six persons, all colored, are known to be dead as a re- suit of the terrible gasolene explosion last night which tore to atoms six buildings on Locust street between Tenth and Eleventh streets, and wreck over score of others. As to the num- Der that yet remain in the ruins of the wrecked buildings all is mere specula- ton.
 Only one of the six that perished has been identified This is Annie Harris, a child years old. who lived at 1913 Locust street, on the opposite side of the street from the building in which the explosion occurred.
 The unidentified dead are:
 A child about 2 years of age; two women and man at the Pennsylvania hospital and man at the Jefferson hos pital
 It was z o'clock this morning before the fremen, after working hard all night had the smouldering ruins suffi- ciently cooled off to enable them to be- gin search for the bodies which are supposed to be beneath the wrecked buildings.
 Their attention was first directed to 1O1S Locust street, the building occu- pied by Albert D. Mountain, grocer. In this building at the time of the explo- sion there were Robert and Dalton Mountain and Lizzie Mountain, chill dren of the proprietor of the store None of them has been accounted for. No 1916 Locust street was occupied by Patrick Quigley as a grocery Quigley, his wife, three children and an uncle were in the building when the explo- sion occurred. The only ones ill this family thus far accounted for is Quig- ley and his uncle
 At 1014 Locust street George Me Clenny, also conducted small grocery. It is here that the explosion is thought to have occurred. The building was occupied by McClenny, his wife, a clerk and servant. At the time of the disaster Mrs McClenny was visit ing in West Philadelphia and the others are thought to have been in the building.
 Where the greatest number proba- bly, perished is at 1912 Locust street. Here William Jones. colored, conduct ed boarding house. He had a score of boarders, but the number in the building at the time cannot be learned positively. The police officials say, however, that it is probable that halt a dozen bodies will be taken from the debris of this building alone.
 At 1010 Locust street, M. Rosenthal, wife and five children lived. They es- capped with broken limbs and contu- sions, but the building was completely wrecked. In the Rosenthal home was a boarder named Frank Schmidt He was seated at a third story window reading when the explosion occurred Schmidt was blown through the win dow and landed upon the top of a stable forty feet from the wrecked buildings. He escaped with a few bruises
 Forty eight persons, all told, were taken to the two hospitals close at hand Of this number six are proba- bly, fatally injured( twenty-eight are suffering from fractured limbs and burns, while the injuries of the others consist of slight cuts from flying debris.
 The block where the explosion oc- cured is in section populated large ly by colored persons. The building where the explosion is supposed to have occurred is in the center of the group of houses situated between Alder and Warnock streets. small thorough fares running parallel with Tenth street. In this space on the south side of Locust street, the demolition is com plete, while on the opposite side of the street not a pane of glass nor a door remained intact.
 The force of the explosion wassterri- fife. Huge plate glass windows ill the building occupied by the Western Saw ing Fund, which is located more than block from where the disaster oc- cured were broken into thousands of pieces, while scarcely a house, or store within a radius of a block escaped broken windows or shattered doors
 The scene at the wreck and at the hospitals this morning is sickening. Persons who had relatives and friends living in the wrecked structures are standing about weeping and almost dis tracted hoping that their loved ones may have escaped terrible death, but fearful of the worst.
 The work of searching in the ruins is necessarily slow, steady downpour of rain making the debris hard to handle.
 The property loss will amount to about $75,0O0, on which there is small insurance.