The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1901-03-16
MANY KILLED or
HURT BY EXPLOSION
Wrecks 4 Chicago Laundry and.
Buries Nearly 100 Men and
Girls in the Ruins.
BELIEVED OVER TWENTY persisted
Bodies Of Three Girls Taken Out of tho
Wreck, and 1t Is Thought Twcnty-Fiyo
Dead Rcmain in the Ruins-Entire
building Demolished.

chicago, March 1S.-By the explosion
Of a boiler In the Doremus laundry, 45S
West Madison street, yesterday after
noon. eight persons We're instantly
killed. Forty-:wo were injured and
several are missing. The list of fatal
tiles is as follows:
Dead:
FRANK HANNAMAN.
MARTHA jacob.
BESSIE KUSABA.
KATE VOSS.
CATHERINE KELLY.
GEORGE DIEHL.
EMMA SAERUSKI.
MINNIE OLSEN.
Injured:
Michael Howell, slightly injured by
flying glass.
Tillie Olsen. injured about body.
arthur Boyer, slightly injured. about
Hilda Kalb, 6 years old, leg crushed
and face cut.
Sadie Kalb. 5 years old, left arm bro
ken.
William b. Dean, badly bruised.
Joseph Gallsell. internally injured.
Mary Werther, head cut.
Abraham Colson, head cut.
Mary Kalb, slightly bruised.
Anthony Stearn, shoulder crushed.
John Dean. s years old, body bruised.
Mrs. Fanny Dean, badly crushed by
falling timbers.
Lizzie c. Wike, three ribs broken.
Antoine Stamsky, head and shoulder
cut.
Sadie Slick, head cut.
les.
Susie Ginter, body bruised.
Susannah Train. head cut.
Peter Dean, head cut and left leg
crushed. 80
Erwin Conway, head and shoulders
badly cut.
Mary Hlalko, arms crushed ana bad
scalp wounds.
les.
Minnie Jarekel, internal injury.
Frank Dottenby, head and shoulder
crushed. ootue
Theodore Van Helden, internal in
George McNelll. head cut and arms
crushed.
William r. Haeppel, internal injur-
Joseph Ortzeller. badly crushed.
Teresa Van Sick, internal injuries md
scalp cut. aiiu
Bessie kinkaid, slightly bruised.
DettsJo Palate. internal INJURIES.
fatrlck o'Nesll, bruised by falling
Soiiu, lace ana head Cllt
Mary Seaser, severe scalp wounds
JACOB B~urchard. badly bruised.
Marlln Andrews, face lacerated.
Hale plnso Internal injuries.
Gussie Hoffman. Internal INJURIES
WINNIE HOFFMAN, head cut and badly
Cause Is Not Known.
me cause of the explosion has MT
naa eetermlned with accuracy as yet,
ana u VIII probably require an official
investigation to settle the matter IL j..
known that the boiler was old n Soc
ond hand affair, Inc there Is no record
in the office of the boiler inspector ar
any inspection having been made with
IN 2 last year. Pending the verdict
OF the coroner's Jury A. L. Doremms
the proprietor of h laundry, is held in.
custody by the police. 1t is the inten-
ton OF the authorities to institute
criminal proceedings against him
should n facts brought out at the In
quest warrant such action.
Reports of the number of dead in the
ruins run all h way from six to
twenty.
It is known thai t~hirty-six EMPLOYEES
Of the laundry a entered the place
before the explosion took place. he
cause the automatic timekeeper in the
ruins showed that number Of registered
arrivals. Two or three were entering
at the moment of the explosion, MAX
Ing the approximate total of forty en-
2ioyes in and around the building.
The list of injured includes several
persons residing in the adjoining
buildings, nearly all of which were
badly damaged.
Several Stores Wrecked.
Several little stores attached to the
Waverly theater, facing Madison street.
We're wrecked by the explosion, and In
one of them, a restaurant, owned by
Porter Dean, one of the fatalities is
supposed to have occurred. The e of
the restaurant is almost opposite the
boiler. Mr.. Dean, his wife and two
boys We're eating their breakfast at the
time Of the explosion, which blew in the
rear wal of the little establishment.
burytng the Dean family in the ruins.
All were extricatcd, except William.
a 1~0-year-old boy, who has not been
seen since, n he Is believed to be
buried in the debris.
Windows along the whole street were
blown to atoms, n a number Of ne
destrians We're badly injured by a
shower of glass. A Madison street ca
Bile train, passing the building at the
time, was almost lifted from the tracks
by the concussion, and the passengers
were thrown into q panic, but none
Blown Through tho Window.
Tillie Olson, one of the Injured girls.
was working near a window openinr
into the laundry office. She was picke5
up bodily and hurled through the vim
dow to the floor of the office, where h
was later picked up unconscious and
bleeding. A. Shope, proprietor of a
confectionery store. was near the rear
wall and was completely buried. He
escaped serious Injury.
George Edom. a laundry emplpye.
will probably die as a result of his In
juries. The cause of the explosion is q
mystery, and. as the engineer was
killed, 1t nay never be known. No
statement has yet been obtained from