The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-27
FIRE FOLLOWED
AWFUL LOSION
Twenty Men Dead and
More Badly Injured.
BUILDING WRECKED.
Crash Came Without Warning and
Buried Men Under Walls.
FLAMES BROKE. OUT IN DEBRIS.
BUILDING WRECKED.
FLAMES BROKE OUT IN DEBRIS.
Many of the Bodies Taken Out We're So Badly
Charred as to Be Unrecognizable Work
of Rescue Was Rushed and Express
Wagons We're lmprovised Into
AmbuIances-M Many Missing
are UnaecouHted For

are Unaccounted For.
DETROIT, MICH, Nov 26.-Twenty-
six men are dead. five of them unnden-
t.ticd and SO terribly burned and blackeu,
that Identification is almost in possible,
and twenty-four other men arc lying in
the various hosp tails OF the city, etc.
E. D. HOFFMAN.
LOUIS hENNING.
PATRICK MALLEY.
L. MILLER.
EUGENE EBETKAM.
r. MULnEE.
JOSEPH COREY.
CHARLES MA
JOSEPH kRlSS.
GEORGE SCHNCRR.
JAMES LYDY.
JACOB kGOBElt.
WILLIAM MANN.
CHRISTOPHER WALDNIIAN.
ROBERT. GREER.
EDWARD BURCH.
JOHN SCHAIBLE.
RICHARD RYAN.
DOUGLASS DICkENSON lpoy),
PETER. DILL.
FIVE unidentn.~,, bodies.
MANY INJURED.
In addition to the twenty-sevcn injured
in the hospitals, a. dozen or more of the
| employees who suffered comparatively
81 ght injuries, aside from the shock. were
ia ken directly to their homes. Twenty
live men and boys have not as yet been
located either at their homes or at the
hospitals The five unidentified bodies
t account for five of these, and the officers
of the company say they feel positive
that the major portion of the remaining
| fifteen are by tonight at Their homes.
Tonight great force of men is
| searching. the ruins by electric fight, ana
the work will not be stopped until every
| foot OF the debris has been examined.
BIG BUILDING.
The Penberth's injector plant occupied
half Il square at. the corner of Abbott
Street and Brooklyn Avenue. 1t was COM
posed of two brick buildings. separated
by a 16-foot alley. The rear building. n
which the boiler was located and which
was completely destroyed, was three ato-.
rieS in height, fifty-fOur feet In depth
and 100 feet wide. The boiler-room was
located at the northwest corner of the
building on the first floor. 1t was in this
building that most of the manufacturing
was done. Tho first floor was utilized
as the engine and boiler-room for testing
me OUTPUT l!le tleiiil liC '-''A
brass manufacturing department was 10
Gated on the second floor, and the thir't
loor was devoted to the foundry.
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 the number was not over
eiGhty-fivc. There We're four boilers IN
the plant-two horizontal ones which fur
Tho 1Nsriyl n
vertical boilers which We're used sole!v
10 test injectors. It was the horizontal
boiler that was in use this morning whixn
let so and caused the awful less of life.
AWFUL CRASH.
The awful crash came without the
slightest warning. Those in the trent
building said it seemed like the concus
sion of an immense cannon. The floors
and roof OF the rear building bulSed u!;-
ward and then crashed down with their
heavy loads of machinery and foundry
apparatus. Walls roof and all dropped
into "a shapeIess mass OF debris. Windows
in houses for a block around were broken
bv the conCussior, and flying bricks filled
the neighboring yards. y dense cloud Of
dust arose and as it settled and was suc
ceeded by denser clouds of smoke and
steam agoniZed cries began TO come from
the heap Of tangled wood. metal and
bricks. Those who were only partly DIr-
led frantica!ly dug themselves out and
then as; enersetically turned to digging
for their comrades who were buried deep
er FLAMES broke out almost immediate
IL and the horror of fire was added TO the
suffering of the imprisoned ones.
FIRE ALARM.
A fire alarm was turned IN and quickly
responded to. Calls We're sent out for all
the amblllanceS in the city and they We're
I1.t,1I Ij,rr j1p-r 4
rival. neighborng houses We're turned IL
10 temporary hospitals, and those physi-
clans who were in the vicinity eased the
sufferers as much as they We're able. Ihc
first ambulances on the scene We're 10
tally inadequate to carry those WNo .i2n
already been eXtricated, ard express
wagons and similar vehicles Were pressed
into service.
AS soon as the gravity of the accident
was realized, calls for additional tireren
were sent in and the apparatus. came fy-
ing to the scene from al parts of the
city While part OF the fremen directed
their efforts ut the fire. which was burn
ing fiercely in the center Of the wreck,
the greater number OF them seized axes
and crow-bars and began pryins out the
Victims who could be seen or whose FAINT
cries we're audible The Department of
Public Works was notified of the horror
and Immediately sent all its available
men aud horses to the scene. In COM
naratively short time. all the labor2rs
who could work to advantage We're few
erishy throwing and pulling the debris
out into Brooklyn Avenue, where it was
loaded into wagons and carried Off.
BURNED FIERCELY.
The floors and roof had fallen at an
angle and formed a sort OF huge cover.
inder which the fire burned ferceIy. Not
until the firemeE@ had chopped through
this did their streams begin to have an
appreciabIe effect on the flames The suf-
feringS OF these who We're buried beneath
We're later mutely testified to by their
charrd and blackened bodies Engineer
Riley was among the first to be dug out
of the wreck. His escape was little shors
of mira culous.