Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-08-09
nor THE DEAD
Hundreds Searching Ruins for Vic
tins Of Philadelphia Explosion.
AT LEAST SEVEN ARE DEAr

-Four or Five Others May Die In the
Hospitals, and Police Expect 70 Fine
Dozen More Bodies Under the
Debris When All Is Gone over.
Philadelphia, Aug. 7.-seven dead
three or four probably fatally injured
and more than so other persons hurt /
more or less seriously is the latest /
revised record OF Monday nights eX
plosion in the block Of buildings on
Locust street, above Tenth. in this
city. How many more victims. if any
are still in the ruins will not be known
until all the debris has been cleared
away, which will require many more
hours of hard work The latest find
was made at 8 o'clock last night, when
the badly burned remains of a colored
man was found in the wreckage on
the sidewalk
The list of dead is as follows:
Elizabeth Mountain, aged 80 years.
Frederick Lee, aged 40 years, col
ored
Unknown cOlored child, aged about
years.
Unknown coIored woman, aged
about % years, and three unknown
colored men.
The most seriously injured, who are
likely to die, are: Mrs. Patrick Quig
ley, Samuel Gales (colOred), Lizzie
Watkins (colored) and Morris Rosen
thai. The escape from death of Lizzie
Watkins is considered remarkable. She
was buried almost a dozen feet under
the debris, with fire all around her
She was taken from the ruins fOul
and a half hours after the explosion
occurred. She was badly burned and
bruised and her sight was destroyed
Undeterred by the incessant rain
the work of searching for the dead
has been kept up continuously since
: the explosion took place The only
person who was positively known t.
be in the ruins was Elizabeth Noun
tain, and a large force of men wal
kept constantly at work in the debrii
where her mothers house had stood
3 The efforts of the searchers were re
i warded at 4 o'clock yesterday after
q noon, when in a corner of the cellar
4 covered partly by broken bricks, tn
6 remains of the unfortunate woman
q were found Her mother and brOthe
5 had stood by during the entire nigh
4 and day watching the searchers.
j One colored man was found in tn
2 ruins of the restaurant, which wa
Is patronized by negroes. He was SUI
y posed to be a helper in the place, bu
IS no one could be found to identify hin
The man found last night was abou
IS years of age, and had on the un
d form of a bootblack.
u Today 200 men, under the directiO
n of the department of public safety, al
I, vigorously pursuing the search. Man
of the residents of the neighbOrhoo
believe there are more bodies in tn
- wreckage. There are several person
Y still missing, but as some Of thes
~ had no known permanent place
- residence it cannot be stated to
2, certainty that they are buried in Il
ruins. The police and fire ofiicia
"a can give no opinion except what thu
81 gather from those who live in the
cinity of the disaster.
n. The police and fire officials are al
making a search for the cause Of Il
IS explosion, but up to this morning tn
20 have found no positive proof as to
m. cause. They hold to the theory tn
gasoline did the damage and that
,1t had been stored in one of the thr
'rd grocery stores. The officials are
49,, clined to believe that the explosi
at occurred in the McClemmy sto
m: which was in the middle of the blot
10 McClemmy, who is badly injur,
4 claimed that he had only a gallon
i'm the oil in his place and that he Ike
,ad it in the rear of the building