The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-27
Bodies of Five of the Dead So
Burned and BIaCkened That
Identification is Almost lmpos-
SibIe
DETROIT HOSPITALS ARE
FILLED WITH INJURED
Man in Charge Of the Boilers Es-
capes Death by a Miracle and
Declares Fires Were All Right
at the Time Of the Explosion
Workmen Searching Ruins

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 26-Twenty six
men are dead, five of them unidenti-
fed and so terribly burned and black
ened that identification is almost i'm
possible, and "a other men and boys
are lying in various hospitals of the
| city suffering from the frightful cuts
and burns and other injuries, all re-
| suits of the explosion of one Of the
| boilers in the Penberthy Injector
| Company's plant at the corner of ABB
bolt Street and Brooklyn Avenue, at
| $50 o'clock this morning
FOLLOWING ARE THE DEAD:
Louis Hennng.
Patrick Malloy.
| A. E. Miller
Eugene Bertram.
| r. Nuke.
Joseph Coffey.
Charles Marvin.
Joseph Kozeck.
| Stephen Chrisp
A. r. Hoffman.
George Schenor.
Charles Lydy.
Jacob Keobet
William Mann.
Christopher Waldman
Robert Greer.
Edward Burch.
John Schaible.
Richard Ryan.
Douglas Dickinson, boy.
Peter Doll
/ Five unidentified bodies
Among those at the hospitals, the
more seriously injured are:
Samuel Riley, engineer, condition
| critical bad burns.
John Hofiein. badly burned.
John Klinowicz, very badly burned;
will probably die.
Tony Walker. foreman of the molding
department; badly burned.
William Ager, boy several bad
burns
In addition to the 27 at the hospitals.
dozen or more Of the employees who
suffered comparatively slight injuries,
aside from the shock were taken d.
| rectly to their homes Eighteen men
| and boys have not as yet been found
| either at their homes or at the hos
pitfalls. The five unidentified bodies
may account for of these. and the
officers Of the company say they feel
positive the major portion Of the re-
naming 9 are at their homes by to-
night
Tonight a great force of men are
searching the ruins by electric light,
and the work win not be stopped until
every part OF the debris has been ex-
amined
The Penberthy Injector Company's
plant occupied half a square at the
corner of Abbott Street and Brooklyn
Avenue. II was composed of two
brick buildings. separated by 16-foot
alley. The rear building, in which the
boiler was located and which was
completely destroyed. was three stories
in height The boiler room was at the
northwest corner Of the building on the
first floor.
It 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 on the second floor and the third
floor was devoted to the foundry
/ II is impossible to tell exactly how
many men were at work in the various
( departments Of the rear building when
the explosion occurred. but the officers
insist that the number was not over IS.
There We're four boilers in the plant
1.-TWO horizontal ones which furnished
steam for the engines. and two vertical
boilers which were used solely to test
/ injectors. II was the horizontal boil
er which was in use this morning.
which exploded and caused the awful
| loss Of life
| The awful crash came without the
slightest warning. Those in the front
building said it seemed like the detona-
ton Of an immense cannon. The floors
/ and roof Of the rear building bulged
upward and then toppled down with
I their heavy loads Of machinery and
l foundry apparatus Walls. roof and
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