Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-02-13

jured and two buildings at 372 and
374 Twenty-second street wrecked
and $4,000 damage done by an ex
plosion of gas last night at the inter
section of Twenty-second street and
Archer avenue
The Dead
Otto Trostle, aged 35.
Mrs Otto Trostle, aged 35
Otto Trostle, Jr., aged 2.
Lena Trostle, aged T.
Annie Trostle, aged g.
Marie Trostle, aged II.
Fred Trostle, butcher, nephew Of
Otto Trostle, aged 23
Sophie Knight, domestic in the
Trostle family.
Mary Rosenthal aged 80.
Mrs. NJ. Kaufert.
Edward Kaufert, aged IA.
Mamie Kaufert, aged A.
Andrew Kolb.
injured.
Lucy Merranosky, cut on head and
face by glass.
Andrew Finstalki, cut, and internal
injuries
Augustus Roster, cut about the face
Sing Wah, blown through a window
cut and bruised.
Nellie Merchant, cut by glass.
Kate Seavor, cut on face and head.
Emma Folz, cut by glass.
J. w. Mcleod, cut by glass
Mrs. j. w. Mcleod, cut and badly
bruised.
Timothy Moynihan fireman. hands
badly burned
p. E. Donohue, fireman, left arm
cut with axe.
Peter Danusand. cut by glass.
j. p. Collins, street car conductor
blown through car from end to end !;
cut. and slight internal injuries
A. Barnes, street car conductor,
blown from car into the street; badly
bruised.
The list of injured might be extend
ed to rs or 100, as many in the
neighborhood sustained injuries from
flying glass or slight bruises caused
by falls. but whose names have not
been reported. Only one of the bodies
of the dead-that of little Lena
been recovered. All
that is known of the fate of the other
twelve reported dead is that they are
thought to have been-most of them
known to have benin the demolish-
ed houses and since the explosion no
trace of them has been found.
The cause of the explosion is IN
known and it has not yet been de-
termined whether it was sewer or
Illuminating gas The mains filled
with the latter and were instantly
ablaze after the first explosion and a
succession of explosions followed, the
flames shooting up through man.
holes in the street 1t will be difficult
to explain whether the Illuminating
gas exploded or whether the mains
were broken by the explosion CT
sewer gas.
Two other explosions of gas fol-
lowed so quickly that it was hard TO
distinguish them. The first to ex-
plode was the main at 22d street and
Archer avenue The manhole half a
block south of Archer avenue was
thrown into the air. Flames leaped
and roared from the hole. The fire
spread below the street and smaller
manholes were blown into the air.
Flames from the first gas main shot
high into the air and with the aid Of
the wind reached Trostle's butcher
shop, The building, a three-story
frame, had been weakened and nearly
wrecked by the shock. 1t is supposed
tnat the occupants were knocked un-
conscious or were too panic-stricken
to rush from the place The dry,
rotting wood was food for the fire and
in an instant the flames had en-
veloped the structure. The building
collapsed and the occupants. with one
exception. were carried with it to the
basement
An adjoining building. two-story
structure. flared up next and the build
ing was wrapped in flames. And then
another caught. 1t seemed that the
whole block would be wiped out
Window glass throughout the neigh,
borhood was broken and glassware
in dwellings and stores was thrown