Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-06
Further Details Of the Fatal Affair
at Philadelphia, Pa,
BODIES TAKEN FROM RUINS.
Neigbborhood Was Inhabited by Col.
ored People Blown Forty Feet
Hut Only Scratched.

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ored persons are known TO be dead as
a result of the terrible gasoline explo-
sion last night which tore to atoias
six buildings on Locust street between
Tenth and Eleventh streets and
wrecked over a score OF others. As
to the number that yet remain in the
ruins Of the wrecked buildings all is
mere speculation.
Only one of the seven bodies recov-
cred has been identified. This Is Annie
Harris, a child four years old, who
lived at 1913 Locust street, on the op-
poslte side Of the street from the build
ing IN which the explosion occurred,
The unidentified dead are child about
s years Of age, two women and three
men.
II was o'clock this morning before
the fremen, after working hard all
night had the smouldering ruins stuff
GENTLY cooled off to enable them to be-
gin a search for the bodies, Their
attention was first directed to 1918
Locust street. the building occupied by
Albert d. Mountain. grocer. In
this building at the time of the
explosion there were Robert and
Dalton Mountain and Ligsle
Mountain, children OF the proprietor Of
the store, All Of them have been ac-
counted for with the exception OF the
girl, whose body Is undoubtedly In the
debris. No. 1916 Loc.at street was &C.
cupied by Patrick Qulgiey as a gro
Ger. Quigley, his wife, three children
and an uncle were IN the building when
the explosion occurred. The only ores
in his family thus far accounted A1r
are Quigiey end his unc,e. AZ 1914 l.0-
Gust street George MeClenny also con-
Quoted a small grocery. IL IS --re that
the explosion is thought 10 nave oc-
Cured. The building was occupied Dv
McClenny. his wife. clerk and a ser
want AT the time OF the disaster Mrs.
McClenny was visiting In West Phlla-
delphia and the others are thought to
have been In the building Where the
greatest number probably persisted Is
at 1912 Locust street. Here Mr., VIM.
Jones, colored conducted boarding
house. He had score OF boarders, .ut
-
time cannot be learned positively.
The police officials say. however,
that II II probable chat
dozen bodies will be taken from the de-
br!s OF this building along, At 1910
Locust street, NJ. Rosen hal, wife and
five children lived. They escaped with
broken limbs and Commissions, but the
building was completely wrecked. In
the Essential home was a boarder
named Frank Schmidt He was seated
at a third story window reading wher
the explosion occurred. Schmidt was
blown through the window and landed
on 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 probably fatally injured, two are
suffering from fractured limbs and
burns. while the injuries Of the others
consist OF slight cuts from flying de-
bris.
The block where the explosion occur
red Is in section populated largely by
colored persons. The building where
the explosion is supposed TO have oc-
CURED Is In the center OF the group
of houses situated between Alder and
Warnock streets, small thoroughfares
parallel with Tenth street In
this space on the south side OF Locust
street the demolition Is complete while
on the opposite side Of the street not
n pane of glass In the doors and win
dows remained intact. The force Of
the explosion was terrific Huge plate
glass windows in the building occupied
by the Western Savings Fund bank
which Is located more than a block
from where the disaster occurred were
broken into thousands OF pieces while
scarcely house within a block escaped
broken windows or shattered doors
The scene at the wreck and at the
hospitals this morning Is slckening.
Persons who had relatives and friends
living In the wrecked structures are
standing about weeping and almost dis.
iracted, hoping that their loved ones
nay have escaped a terrible death, but
'earful OF the worst
The work Of searching 81 he ruins Il
slow. There isa steady
iownpour Of rain, which makes the de.
Dris hard 20 handle
The property loss win amount 90
Ibout $4,000, on which there is small
Insurance.