Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-03-12


| follows. Emma SebreSka Is years Old:
Minnie Olsen. Sc; George Piehl. engi-
| neer: Frank Haumman: Bessie Kin
capa. Is: Martha Jacob. p: katherine
Kelly. Is: unidentified man.
The missing William Dean. 10 years
old: Kate Colerts; Kate Walsh. Two
Crieger girls. kittie Purcell believed
| to be in the ruins.
Fatally injured: Mamie Burns. hurt
internally; Joseph Oltesella. internal
injuries, body crushed: Lizzie Oar
raugh, internal injuries. George +.
Dom. badly crushed.
Others injured: Peter Dean. leg
crushed and badly cut serious: Tony
Stearn. shoulder crushed ana internal
injuries, severe: Minnie Jaeckel. inter-
nal injuries. severe: George Mcneil.
head cut. arms crushed. serious
Theodore Van Allen internally hurt
serious; Abe Colson, both arms broken
an other Injuries, serious; Ellen Con-
way, foreWOman, serious: William III
tlclppel. internal injuries. serious:
Frank DottenWhy. severe. George CAL
sella. internal injuries. severe: Susie
Franc. severe: Sadie Slick. severe; II.
Patalo. internal injuries. severe: Tony
Stampsky tgirD, severe; Lizzie Zwick.
ribs fractured and other injuries
severe; Mrs. Fannie Dean. slight: John
Dean. slight; Mary kolb. slight.
Teresa Van SICK. Slight: Mary WAY
lock. slight: Mary Hloko. slight.
The explosion took place at time
when many Of the employees of the I1Iln-
dry had gone to work, a time register
found in the ruins showing that n had
already reported for dIty. whl, two nr
three were known to have Just entered
The hdilding. or III, So. hardly enc csclp-
ed injury of some sort. The force Of the
explosion was 50 terrific that buildings
for blocks around We're shaken - if by
m cart hluat", and hundred ot windows
were shattered.
The ,b1ilding in which the explosion oo-
CURED was knoWn as the old MaNerIv
theatre. ana was built in MI. Subs,l-
quentlY. il as remodrlrd. ana the rear
used 10y the DurcmuS laundry. The cX-
plnSion lifted half Of thc roui Of the i'm
mons" haiidn& many feet ~ the air. II
fen back into the rains oi the building.
carrying with il the portion 81 the bTick
walls that had not bccn blown outward
fortunate employees
The Wrerkagc near the boiler ANA in the
east lart ~ the building at once took
fire and the fire department. although al
work I'M" minutes aItcr the explosion,
HAD some difficulty III tNtin1uiSuIus tn,
flames. Through thc hindinG clouds oi
dust and escaping steam could he seen
struggling men ana women. some %
them half buried in WrccEaGv. The WORK
OF rescue At ono" began. Here and there
We're dead bodies. generally those Of We
men, ana in two instances 50 lighttUiN
mangl'd that baskets were used by fire
men to carry them out.
Most Of the dead We're found in the cast
end Of the building. where the fire Wa
hottest Pinioncd down under tons OF
heavy timbcrs crushed and mansled al
most beyond recognition, and IN one or
two instances half burned, were found
five of the dead.
All Of the dozen or moro little stores
attached to the WaVerlY theatre ami Fac
ing on Madison street We're wrecked by
the explosion. In restaurant owned BY
Peter Dean. one Of the fatalities IS sup
posed to have occurred. The rear of tine
restaurant was almost opposite the boil
er. Mr. Dean, his wife and TWO boys wera
eating Al the time of the explosion which
blew in the rear wall of the establish
ment. burying the Dean family. All We're
extricared except William, a 10-year-Ola
boy. who is believed to be buried in the
ruins
Windows along Madison street were
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