Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-11-28
26 MEN KILLED.
in Detroit Mandatory Five IN
identified Bodies Burned Be-
yond Recognition.


yond Recognition.
Detroit, Mich, Nov. 26.-TWenty-siX men
are dead five of them unidentified and SO
terribly burned ana blackcned That i"n-
tihcatlon is almost impossible and "a
other mon are lying in the various hos
pitaIs Of the city tonight; all results
OF III" Explosion of one of the boilers in
me f'nbcrthy injector company's large
plant at the ccrnor OF Abbott street nd
brooklyn avenue at $3.50 o'cloch to-day.
Following are the dead:
a. +. liolfmah
LOUIS flenning'
Patrlck MalIoy,
\. +. Milict,
Eugene bcrtram,
t. MuIl'ee.
Joseph corey,
ChdrleS Marvin
JOS hose-k'
stephen crisp,
George sen. nor,
tharies Lazy,
Jacob keobet.
william Mann,
christopher Waldman,
Robert Greer,
Edward Burch.
John Schwalbe,
Richard Ryan,
Douglass Dickinson,
Boy Peter DOH.
Five unidentified bodies,
In addition to those more seriously in
jurcd a dozen or more Of the employs
VINO suffered comparatively slight iniu-
rirs were taken directly to their home
Eighteen men and boys have MT as
yet been located either at their homes OF
at the hospitals The five unlenui'd
bodies account for five of these and he
officers of the company say they feel ros-
Tive that the major portion of the lc-
manning thirteen are by tonight at thti
homes. Tonight a great force of men is
searching the ruins by electric light and
the work Will not be stopped until every
foot of the debris has been explored.
rho Pcnbe rthy Injector company's plant
occupied half a square at the corner OF
Abbott street and Brooklyn avenue. 1t
was composed of two brick buildings sep
arated by a sixteen foot alley
The rear building in which the boiler
Was located and which was completely de-
stroyed was three stories high. The boil
or room was located at the Northwest
corner of the building on the first floor.
II 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 manufac-
turing demand was located on the second
floor and the third floor was devoted to
the foundry.
it is impossible to tell exactly how many
men We're at work in the various depart
mcnts of the rear building when the eX-
ploSion occurred, but the officers insist
that the number was not over 81.
Tho awful crash came without the
slightest warning.
The floors and roof of the rear building
bugcd upward and then crashed down,
mass of debris
Windows in houses for n block around
were broken by the conclusion and flying
bricks filled the neighboring yards
Flames broke out from the ruins almost
Immediately and the horror of IRE was
added to the suffering ones imprisoned.
Calls were sent out for all the ambu-
lauccs in the city. Pending their arrival
ncighboring houses were turned into tenn
porary hospitals.
The first ambulances on the scene were
totally inadt Quate to carry those who had
already been eXtricated and express WaE
ous ald similar vehicles were pressed into
service.
In compare lively short time all the
labor,rs who could work to advantage
were fcvcrishlY clearing away the debris
The floors and roof had fallen at an
autlc and formed sort of huge cover
under which the hre burned hercely. Not
until the irCmcn had chopped through this
did their streams begin to have an appIe-
ciahlc effect on the flames. The suffering
OF those who were buried beneath WorH
later testified to by their charrcd and
bHckcnod bodies
Engineer Riley was among the first to
be dug out from the wreck His escape
was little short of miraculous.
lie was knocked to the Aoor and one
Of the smaller testing boilers was blown
over him. forming a shield that kept the
falling timbcrs. bricks and machinery
from crushing him
TIN, cscaping steam. however, burncd