The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27

EDWARD BURCH.
JOHN SCHAIBLE.
RICHARD RYAN.
DOUGLASS DICKINSON. boy.
PETER DOLT.
SIX UNIDENTIFIED BODIES.
injured at the Hospitals
SAMUEL RILEY, engineer, condition
critical bad burns.
a T. GIDDAY. suffering from burns.
JOHN HOFFLEIN. badly burned
JOHN KLEINSwICZ, very badly
burned. will probably die.
HERMAN GOLDNER. burned about the
back
TONY WALKER, foreman Of the mold
ing department. 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 DINGALL. injured about head.
JULIUS LIEBETEN, arm broken and
slight burns.
EDWARD LIEBETEN, boy, burns.
GEORGE KELSEY, head badly cut.
STEPHEN NACHTIGEL. slight.
IGNATIUS BROCK, slight.
GUS GALLEY. head and arm injured
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Ing from shock.
BERT MARTIN. leg broken.
L. D. CROWLEY, slight.
LOUIS MILLER. slight.
MIKE DERANGER. burned about head.
WILLIAM AIGER. boy. several bad
burns and seriously bruised
WILLIAM BEGEMAN. arm cut
In addition to the foregoing a dozen or
more Of the employees who suffered COM
paratively slight injuries. aside from the
shock. were taken directly to their homes
Seventeen men and boys have not as yet
been located either at their homes or
at the hospitals The six unidentified bodies
hcers of the company say they feel positive
that the major portion of the remaining
eleven are by tonight at their homes. To-
night a great force Of men is searching
the ruins by electric light and the work
will not be stopped until every foot OF the
debris has been examined.
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
The Penberthy Injector Company's plant
occupied half square at the corner Of
Abbott street and Brooklyn avenue. 1t was
composed Of two brick buildings. separated
by a sixteen-fOot alley. The rear building.
was completely destroyed. was three stories
IN height fifty-four feet in depth ard 100
feet wide. The boiler room was located at
the northwest corner of the building on
the first floor II was in this building
that most OF the manufacturing was done.
The first floor was utilized as an engine and
boiler room and a room for testing the out
put OF the plant. The finishing and brass
manufacturing department was located on
the second floor. and the third floor was
devoted 10 the foundry. 1t is impossible
20 tell exactly how maRy men were at work
IN the various departments OF this rear
building when the explosion occurred. but
the officers insist that the number was
not over eighty-fve. There were four
boilers in the plant, two horizontal ones
which furnished steam for the engines,
and two vertical boilers which were used
solely 10 test injectOrs. IL was the hori-
zontal boiler that was in use this morning
which let go and caused the awful loss
OF life
The awful crash came without the slight
est warning Those in the front OF the
building said IL seemed like the cOncussiOn
o. 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 shape
less mass OF debris. Windows In houses
for a block around We're broken by the
conclusion and flying bricks filled the
neighboring yards. A dense cloud of dust
arose, and as II settled. and was succeeded
b. denser clouds OF smoke and steam az
onlzed cries began 10 come from the heap
OF tangled wood metal and bricks. Those
WHO were only partly buried frantically
aug themselves out. and then as energetic
ally turned 10 digging FOR their comrades
who were buried deeper. Flames broke out