The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-27
DEAD NUMBER lWENTY-SlX
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nOrLnWeSt corner or the DullulIlS ou lHe
 first floor. It was in this building that
 most of the manufacturing was done. \ The first floor was utilized as the en-
 zine and boiler room and a room for
 Testing the output of the plant. The Isfinishing and brass manufacturing de- partment was on the second f1oor and
 the third floor was devoted to the foun-
 dry. It is impossible to tell exactly how
 many men were al work in the various sdepartments of the rear building when the explosion occurred, but the officers
 Insist that the number was not over
 eighty-five There were four boilers in
 the plant, two horizontal ones which furnished steam for the engines and
 two vertical boilers which were used solely to test injectors. It was the hor- : izontal boiler 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 4huilding said it seemed like the detona- 2 ton of an immense cannon. The floors and roof of the rear building bulged up-
 ward and then toppled down with their
 heavy loads of machinery and foundry
 apparatus. Walls, roof and all dropped into shape1ess mass of debris. Win dows in houses for a block around were broken by the concussion and flying bricks filled the neighboring yards A dense cloud of dust arose and as it set
 z tied and was succeeded by denser clouds Sof smoke and steam agonized cries be- $xan to come from the heap of tangled wood, metal and bricks. Those who were only partly buried frantically dug Themselves out, and then as energetic lilly turned to digging for their com- grades who were buried deeper. Flames broke out almost immediately and the horror of the fire was added to the suf- Hfering of the imprisoned ones. <. A fire alarm was turned in and was quickly responded to. Calls were sent Eout for all the ambulances in the city, and they were hurried to the scene. Pending their arrival neighboring houses were turned into temporary hos pitaIs, and those physicians who were in the vicinity relieved the sufferers as we'll as they were able. The first ambu- dances on the scene were totally made Sduate to carry those who had already been extricated, and express wagons 8&rtd similar vehicles were pressed into Gervice.
 AS soon as the gravity of the accident WIS realized calls for additional firemen were sent in, and the apparatus came flying to the scene from all parts of the city. While part of the firemen directed sfheir efforts at the fire, which was burn Ing fiercely in the center of the wreck, athe greater number of them seized axes md crowbars and began prying out the Victims who could be seen or whose 4aint cries were audible.
 lS lSt The department of public works was sfotified of the horror and immediately rent all of its available men and horses No the scene.
 x Iii comparatively short time all the SI4horers who could work to advantage were feverishly throwing and pulling afhe debris out into Brooklyn avenue, Where it was loaded into wagons and 4carried off.
 The floors and roof had fallen at an sangIe and formed sort of huge cover, under which the fire burned fiercely, Nbt until the firemen had chopped 48rough this did their streams begin to have an appreciable effect on the flames. The sufferings of those who were buried Beneath were testified to later by their Ecljarred and blackened bodies.
 s Engineer Riley was among the first |f1 be dug out from the wreck. His es- cape was little short of miraculous. when the boiler exploded he was hurl- led ato the floor and one of the smaller xeeting boilers was blown over his pros ffate form in such a way that one end rested on some debris high above him, Thereby forming shield which kept ff1e failing timbers, bricks and machin- erv from crushing him. The escaping steam, however, burned him fr'ghtfully. After his arrival at Grace hospital R1- iey,s first words were:
 How did it happen? The engines and boilers were all right"
 Gradually the rescuers worked their way downward through the pile. By Hills time there were no cries or kroans, to aid them, fur the flames had |destroyed these unfortunates who were not Killed by the explosion or the fall. Hit the work of rescue continued with 5Hhabated haste. When a heavy beam 2r piece of shafting was encountered a Y4am of horses was driven in and the 4,iece or Wreckage was hauled to the otreet.
 < Stretcher- bearers stood beside the Helvers and bore away the burned and blackened bodies. A vacant house ad Joining the factory was converted into aStemporary morgue Here the bodies were placed in collins and taken to the
 
 fharred corpses were so hot when re- covered that they could scarcely be handled by the undertakers and their Sssistants.
 The hospitals were besieged by rela- lives and friends of the injured men. X4 Emergency hospital, which is only mort distance from the scene and where many of the injured were carried in wagons, the floors of the reception rooms and even the halls were used as \ temporary resting place for the vic- fins. Physicians were hastily summon VI and the work of relief was expedited. Similar scenes were enacted at Grace and Harper hospitals
 The front building of the plant sus- tained comparatively little damage, the tremendous explosion within sixteen feet of it. All the win dows. of course, were broken and some " 4I,n machinery WAS slightly injured