The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-12
FIRE FOLLOWED EXPLOSION
AND MOST OF THE VICTIMS WE'RE
BURNED AS WELL AS CRUSHED.
Clash Between Firemen and Police
That Resulted I'm Temporary stop
page of Work on the Ruins.

a
West Madison street. this morning. eight
persons were instantly killed. forty-two
injured and several are missing. The list
of fatalities follows:
The Dead
BESSIE KUSABA. fifteen years old.
FRANK HANNEMAN.
MARTHA JACOBI, twenty-one years old.
KATE VOSS.
old.
GEORGE PIEHL, engineer.
EMMA SABRASKI. eighteen years old.
MINNIE OLSEN. thirty-six years old.
The Injured
MICHAEL ROWELL. slightly injured by
flying glass.
TILLIE OLSEN, injured about body.
ARTHUR BOYER, slightly injured about
body.
HILDA KALBA. six years old, leg
crushed and face cut.
SADIE KALB. Eve years old, left arm
broken.
WILLIAM e. DEAN. ten years old. badly
bruised
JOSEPH GALLSELLA, internal injuries.
MARY VERNE. head cut.
ABRAHAM COLSEN, head cut.
MARY CALB. slightly bruised.
ANTHONY STEARN, shoulder crushed.
JOHN DEAN, eight years old. body
bruised
MRS. FANNY DEAN. badly crushed by
falling timbers.
LIZZIE c. wIKE, three ribs broken.
ANTOINE STAMSKY. head and shoulder
cut.
SADIE SLICK. head cut.
LIZZIE DARROW, severe internal in
juries.
SUSIE GINTER, body bruised
sUsANNAH FRAME. head cut.
NELLIE ENRIGHT, slightly bruised.
PETER DEAN. head cut and left leg
crushed.
ELLEN CONWAY. head and shoulders
badly cut.
MARY ELALKO. arms crushed. bad
scalp wounds.
MATTE BURNS. severe internal injur-
les
MINNIE JAECKEL, internal injuries.
FRANK DOTTENBY. head cut and
shoulders crushed.
THEODORE VAN HOLDEN, internal in
juries.
GEORGE MNEILL, head cut and arms
crushed.
WILLIAM r. HAEPPEL. internal injur-
les.
JOSEPH ORTZELLER. body crushed
TERESA VANSIK, internal injuries,
scalp wound.
BESSIE KINKAID. slightly bruised.
DETTSJO PATALO. internal injuries.
PATRICK O'NEILL, bruised by falling
wall.
OTTO FREUND, face and hands cut.
MARY SESSER, severe scalp wounds.
JACOB BURCHARD. badly bruised.
MARTIN ANDREWS. face lacerated.
KATE ROBINSON, internal injuries
MINNIE HOFFMAN, head cut and body
bruised.
EMMA KREUGER. face badly cut.
The cause of the explosion has not been
determined with accuracy as yet. and IL
will probably require an official investiga-
tion to settle the matter 1t is known that
the boiler was old. a secondhand affair.
and there is no record in the office of the
boiler inspector of any inspection having
been made within the last year Pending
the verdict OF the coroner's jury A l..
Doremus, the proprietor of the laundry, IS
held in custody by the police. 1t is the
intention of the authorities to institute
criminal proceedings against him should
the facts brought out at the inquest war
rant such action.
WORK ON THE RUINS STOPPED.
Reports OF the number of dead i'm the
ruins run all the way from six to twen-
ty. 1t is known that thirty-six employees
OF the laundry had entered the place be-
fore the explosion occurred because the
automatic timekeeper found in the ruins
showed that number OF registered arrivals
Two or three were entering a the mo-
ment OF the explosion, making an approxi-
mate total of forty employees in and around
the building. The list OF injured includes
however. several persons residing In the
adjoining buildings. nearly all which were
badly damaged. The most conservative
estimate by the police conceded that al
least three persons. dead or alive are still
in the ruins. yet the search for bodies in
the ruins came to sudden end early in
the afternoon and the work of rescue was
entirely abandoned. The cause of the ces-
sation OF the search was a dlspute he
tween the firemen and police as to who
was responsible for the recovery of anv
bodies which might be concealed beneath
the debris The hremen said they had
performed their whole duty and. gath
ering up their hose. they retired from the
scene. The police said 1t was rot their
work to dig for bodies. and nobody else
volunteered To do the work
The trouble was brought TO the attention
Of Police Inspector John u. Shea i'm whose
district the accident occurred, and he held
that the search properly belonged to the
fre department. who ever heard OF po-
lice digging for bodies or performing the
work OF wrecking crew. asked the in
spector. Fl never did. and 1 say such work
does not belong to the police department
The firemen are she proper ones. in my