The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-04
Tw snfy Men Are osad and
Twenty-Ssvsn jured,
HE BUILDING DEMOLISHED.
Pho Horrors tf Fire Wera
Added TO tho 81 ffH'ng
OF tho imprisoned
Onas.

in the various hospitals of the city suf- |
fering from terrible cuts snd burns
and other injuries, ell results of the |
explosion of ono of the boilers in the
Penberthy Injector compsny's largo |
plant at the corner of Abbott street |
and Brooklyn avenue, Detroit, Mich,
st $3.50 o'clock Tuesday of last week,
Following are the dead:
X. Brysnt, monitor hand,
&. e. Hoffman, lathe hand.
Joseph Coffey, lathe hand.
A. K. Miller, lathe hand
Eugene Bertram, lathe hRnd.
Edward BUrtsch, lathe hand.
Charles MsTvin, lathe hand.
Patrick Mailoy, carpenter.
j. Frye, ssed "a, tester.
Ten unidentified bodies.
Iu addition TO the % injured iu hos
pitals, dozen or more OF tue employees
who suffered comparatively slight irju
ries, aside from the shocb, we're taken
to their homes.
Twenty FIVE men and boys have not
homes or st tie hospitals. The ten
unidentified bodins account for ten cf
these, and the officers OF The company
say that they feel positive thst the ma
jor portion of the remaining 10 are BY
tonight st their homes. Tonight
great force OF men ia searching the
ruins by electric light and the work
will not be stopped until every foot hiss
been examined.
THE FACTORY.
The PeDberthy Ipjs otor company'a
plant occupied half square at tho
corner of Abbott street and Brooklyn
svsnue. Ii WEs composed of two brick
buildings, separated oy 16 foot alley.
( The rear building, in whioh the, boiler
vas located and Hhioh sFts completely
destroyed, Was three stories in heigbt,
81 feet IN d6pr aad 100 feet wide
81. r.s sboiler rpoC was located a.. tine
nott,.r esr- Jotrr-- OF tT1a buiidi.R 81.
the y, H,eI. WAC fn thia tnf f.5i7g !
lu.asSSs1uS wss,,
-10us4 INe ufBt hoOr was uUli Sed ss
theIengine and boiler room and room
for testing the output of the plgnt
The flashing aud brass manu!aciu-iue
department was located on the seccI
floor, and the third floor was devoted to
the foundry. il is impossible to tell
exactly how many men Tere a. work in
the various departments of this rear
building whep the explosion occurred
but the Cficers insist that the number
Was not over S5. There we're fout
boilers iD the plsnt, tao horizontal ones
which furnished steam for the engines
and two vertical boilers which we're
used solely to test irjectors. 1t was
the horizontal boiler which was Ia use
this morning which let go and caused
the awful loss of life.
WITHOUT WARNING
II he awful crash came without tho
slightest waning, Those IN the front
building said it seemed like the cor
cussion of an immense cannon Tho
roof and floors Of the rear building
bulged upward and then crashed down
with their heiyy loads oi machinery
AID foundry apparatus, Walls, root
and all dropped into shspeless mass
Of debris. Windows ia houses for
block around were broken by the con
oussion, aud fying bricks filed the
neighboiipg yards. A dense cloud OF
dusV arose, and as it settled, sad was
succeeded by denser clouds Of smoke
snd steam, ssoUizsd clies b, gan &c
come from the heap of tangled wood,
metal and bricks. Those who scre
only partly buried frauticaily dug
themselves cut, and thee Ct eDergeJi-
cally turned 10 digging for their N
rades who were buried deeper.
FLAMES BROKE OUT
almost imm modiately aud the horror cf
are was added to the suffering of the
imprisoned ones.
a FIRE alarm v =. turned il and quick
ly responded to; calls were e,Ls out
for all the smbu'ancea in the oiiy aaG
they were hurried TO the scene. Pend
ing their arrival, Heighboripg houses
we're turred into tempo rsTy hOspua,r,
and those physicians VINO wcro Ia the
vicinity eased the 'uffsrers rs much 81
they were able. The first imbuiaD ,es
on the scene were totally inadequate to
carry thoae who had already been OK
LIaoted, and express Ssgons and similar
vehicles WoIe pressed into service.
AS soon as tho gravity Of the acci
dent was reaiizad calls for additional
fremen we're s. Mt 10, and the apparatus
came flying TO the scene from all parts
Of the city. While ps7t OF the fIemon
turned their tffOrtg ct the Ere, which
\ Was burning feIealY 10 the centre Of
tie wreck, the greater number Of them
seized axes and orOwbsIs srd began
prying out the victims who could b.
seen or whose fairt CRIES Wero audible
The department Of pubic works vas
notified Of the horror a.d imuc distoly
sent all its available ueu and horses 10
the sceno.
In s comparatively short time, al the
lsbcrers who oould work to sdvan.age
were fc7erishly throwing sld pulling
the debris out into Brooklyn avenue,
where il was loaoed into wagons aud
carried of
The floors and roof had fallen ct sn
angle and formed sort Of hugo corner,
under which the fire burned
fiercely. Not until tho hrcmcn had
chopped through this, did their stream
begin 10 have 40 spprec'ablc cfsSt D
the flames
The suffering Of those who wcr5
buried beneath wore later muLcly tesa-
fed to by their ohsErod and Dlsckenod
bodies.
'How DID iB,HAPPENI'
Engineer Riley WAS smolg the hrs,
to be taken out of the wreck. His ca.
cape was little short Of mirsculously.
When the boiler let 90 he was knocked