Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-11-29
The Bodies of Twenty-Six Men
Taken from the Ruins---Five
Are Unidentified.
twenty Four Badly Injured Mon Are
Lying in the Hospitals Others
Arc Missing.
Big Force of Rescuers Hard Mt Work
i Property Loss VIII Reach
p $1sO,OOO.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 27.-Twenty-s six
men are dead, five of them unidenti-
fed, and so terribly burned and black
ened that iden tifcatton is almost i'm
possible, and "a other men are lying
in the various hospitals of the city
suffering from terrible cuts and burns
and other injuries, all results of the
explosion of one of the boilers in the
Penberthy Injector company's large
plant, at the corner of Abbott street
and Brooklyn avenue, at $3.50 o'clock
Tuesday. Following are the dead:
The Victims.
fey, A. e. Miller, Eugene Bertram Edward
Burtsch, Charles Marvin, Stephen Crisp.
Patrick Malloy, j. Frye and ten unidenti-
fed bodies.
THE lNJURED-Samuel Riley, engineer.
condition critical. bad burns; unknown boy
about Is. dying; A. T. Gilday suffering
from burns; John Hofiein. badly burned;
Uohn klinewicz, very badly burned. will
probably die: Herman Goldner. burned
about the back; Peter Doll, badly burned;
Tony Walker, foreman of the molding de-
partment nose broken and badly burned:
John vogt. bruised and suffering from
Shock; James Nall, back injured; Sol
Graupe, slight burns; Bert Dickson, minor
Injuries; John Dingal, injured about head;
John Schiable. badly burned: JULIUS Liebe-
ten. arm broken and slight burns; Ed
ward Liebeten, boy, burned: George KEEL
Eey, head badly cut; Stephen Nachtigel,
slight; Ignatius Brock. slight; Gus Galley,
mead and arm injured; William Knapp.
head cut and suffering from shock; Bert
martin, leg broken; T. D. Crowley. slight;
Louis Miller. slight: Mike Deranger, burned
about head; William Ager. several bad
burns and seriously bruised; William
Hegenan, arm cut.
A Number Missing.
! In addition to these, dozen or
more OF the employees who suffered
comparatively slight injuries, aside
from the shock, were taken directly
Ito their homes. wenty-iye men and
boys have not as yet been located,
Either at their homes or at the hos
pitfalls The ten unidentified bodies
account for ten of these, and the Of
a1cers of the company say they feel
positive that the major portion of
the remaining Is are at their homes.
The Wrecked Plant.
The Penberthy Injector company's
plant occupied half square at the
corner of Abbott street and Brook
eyn avenue. 1t was composed of two
brick buildings, separated by 49,
foot alley. The rear building, in
which the boiler was located and
which was completely destroyed, was
khree stories in height, 81 feet in
Hepth and 100 feet wide. The boiler
room was located in the northwest
corner of the building on the first
floor. 1t is impossible to tell exactly
how many men were at work in the
various departments of this rear
building when the explosion occurred,
but the officers insist that Che number
was not over IS. There were four
boilers in the plant, two horizontal
bnes which furnished steam for the
Engines, and two vertical boilers
(which were used solely to test in
6ectors. 1t was the horizontal boiler
that was in use Tuesday morning
which let go and caused the awful
loss of life.
Came Without Warning.
The awful crash came without the
slightest warning. Those in the front
building said it seemed like the con-
cussion of an immense cannon. The
aoors and roof of the rear building
bulged upward and then crashed
hown with their heavy loads of ma
ehinery and foundry apparatus.
Walls, roof and all dropped into q
thapeless mass Of debris. Windows