Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-06
Twenty ARE killed
Explosion in Philadelphia 0foc.
cry Store Kills Twenty and
Injuries Many.
Six Buildings Are Leveled 10 tie
Ground on Locust
Street.
Upper Floors We're Occupied %
Residences and Fatalities
May Be More.
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NO 1856

May Be More.
Philadelphia, Aug. GA terrific explo-
sion occurred (cause at present un-
known) in grocery store on Locust
street, west of Tenth street, shortly be-
fore 10 O'clock last night. 1t is now es-
timated that at least twenty persons are
dead
About twenty-five others, many Of
them badly injured, have been taken to
the hospitals. The store, with two adj
joining groceries, two second class
clothing stores and a restaurant, were
We're leveled to the ground in a memeht.
The fire is now under control<and fire.
men and policemen are searching the
ruins for bodies of the dead.
The upper floors of the buildings were
all occupied as living quarters No. 1910
Locust street was Rosenthal's second
hand clothing store. His family consist
ed of himself, wife and five children:
No. 1912 was Jones restaurant, patron
lied principally by colored people. In
this building it is estimated were ff-
ten persons. No. 1014, McClemmys gro-
cery. estimated three persons; No. 1885,
Quigley's grocery. The family con-
sisted of husband, wife, three children
and an uncle. No. 101s Mounten's gro-s
Gerry estimated four persons. How many
members of the families mentioned were
| in the house at the time cannot be told.
Neither can it be said how many custo-
mers were in the stores. The sidewalks
! at the time were crowded with passefs-
by and loungers and few had opporrun-
| ity to escape falling walls or the shock
4 of the explosion.
| Philadelphia, Aug. 6.-Six persons, all
colored, are known to be dead as the re-
sult of the terrible gasoline explosion
last night which tore to atoms six build
ings on Locust. Tenth and Eleventh
streets ana wrecked over a score Of 9TH
4 ers. AS to the number yet remaining in
4 the ruins of the wrecked buildings Ill
is mere speculation. Only one Of the nix
. CT those who perished has been identi-
fed. This is Annie Harris, aged &
The unidentified dead: A child 2years
CT age, two women anI two men. Itawas
m o'clock this morning before the Are
men, after working hard all night, had
the smouldering ruins sufficiently cooled
off to enable them to begin the searcn
for the bodies supposed to be beneath
The wrecked buildings.
Their attention was first \directed to
the 1018 Locust street building owned by
Albert d. Mountain, grocer. In this
building at the time of the explosion
there We're Robert and Dalton Mountain
and Lizzie Mountain, children of the
. proprietor of the store. None of them
: have been accounted for. No. 1016 Lo-
!. oust was owned by Patrick Quigley as a
. grocery. Quigley, his Wife, three chill
dren and an uncle were in the building
when the explosion occurred. The only
!. one of the families thus far accounted
: for are Quigley and the uncle. At 101-
Locust street George McClenny con
Quoted a small grocery. Here the ex.
: rlosion is thought to have occurred. Th'
. building was occupied by McClenny, hi'
!. wife, a clerk and a servant. AT th'
:. time of the disaster Mrs. McClenny wa
visiting in West Philadelphia. The 9th
ers are thought to be in the building
h Where the greatest number perishe'
= was at 1912 Locust. Here William Jones
colored, conducted boarding house. III
Fad score of boarders, but the numbe
IN the building at the time can not b
i, armed positively. Police officials say
is probable that half a dozen bodies wi
be taken from the debris of this build
l. ing alone AT 101G Locust, NJ. Rosentha
n wife and five children lived They es
capped with broken limbs and contusion
the building being completely wreckei
RS Forty-eight persons were taken to tt
A. two hospitals close at hand. OF tn
l.umber six were possibly fatally injure
: and twenty -eight are suffering frol
at fractured limbs and burns, while the il
He juries to others consist of slight cuts
as The block where the explosion OF
Cured is in a section populated largel
by colored persons. The force of the e,
p,osion was terrific. Huge plate gla'
n windows in the large building more tha
nd Il block from the disaster were broke
OF into thousands of pieces, while scarce
he 81 house or store window in radius of
la. block escaped broken windows and sha
n tered doors. The scene at the wreck al
in at the hospitals this morning was sicl
is ening Persons who had relatives al
ne friends living in the wrecked stIuctur
ls were standing about weeping and q
most distracted, hoping their loved on
may have escaped terrible death, b
fearful of the worst. The work
cii searching in the ruins is necessarl
ier SLOW. There is steady downpour
me rain, which makes the debris hard
ry' handle The property loss Is SIo.0
az with small insurance.