The suburban citizen., 1901-11-30
70 WERE KILLED
AND "a INJURED
Disaster Caused by the Explosion Of a
Boiler In Detroit.
MANY BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION
The Penbsrthy Injector company's Plant
Occupied half Square at The Corner
Of Abbott Street and Brooklyn Avenue
II Was Composed Of Two Brick Buildings
Separated by a !6-FOot Alley.

Detroit, Mich, (Specia) Twenty
six men are dead, FIVE Of them uniden-
tilted and so terribly burned and black
sned that identification is almost impos-
sible, and "a other men are lying in the
various hospitals Of the city suffering
from terrible cuts and burns and other
injuries, all the result of an explosion of
boiler in the Penberthy Injector Com
pany's large plant at the corner of Abb
bott street and Brooklyn avenue,
Twenty others who are less seriously
injured are in the hospitals.
In addition to these a dozen or more
Of the employees who suffered compare
lively slight injuries were taken directly
to their homes. Eighteen men and boys
have not as yet been located either at
their homes or at the hospitals.
The five unidentified bodies account
for five of these, and the officers of the
company say they feel positive that the
others are at their homes,
A great force of men searched the
ruins by electric light and the work will
uOl DC olOppNQ NlAll NNNAg AOOl " AAAN
debris has been examined.
The Penberthy Injector Company's
plant occupied half square at the cor
ner Of Abbott street and Brooklyn ave-
nue. 1t was composed of two brick
buildings, separated by a Io-foot alley
The rear building in which the boiler
was located and which was completely
destroyed, was three stories in height
50 feet in depth and 100 feet wide, The
boiler room was located at the north
west corner of the building, on the first
floor. 1t was in this building that most
Of the manufacturing was done. The
first floor was utilized as the engine and
boiler room and a room for testing the
output of the plant; the finishing and
brass manufacturing department was To-
Gated on the second floor and the third
floor was devoted to the foundry.
1t is impossible to tell exactly how
many men were at work in the various
departments of the building when the eo-
plosion occurred, but the officers insist
that the number was not over IS. There
were four boilers in the plant, two hori-
zontal ones, which furnished steam for
the engines, and two vertical boilers
which were used solely to test inJectors
1t was the horizontal boiler that was in
use which exploded and caused the great
loss of life.
The crash came without the slightest
warning. Those in the front building
said it seemed like the conclusion OF an
immense cannon. The floors and roof
of the rear building bulged upward and
then crashed down with their heavy
loads of machinery and foundry appa-
ratus, Walls roof and all dropped into
shapeless mass of debris. Windows
in houses for a block around were
broken by the conclusion and flying
bricks filled the neghboring yards.
A dense cloud of dust arose, and as it
settled and was succeeded 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 buried frantically
dug themselves out, and then as energet-
icaly turned to digging for their COM
rades who were buried deeper