Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-06
FIFTEEN LIVES
SNUFFED OUT.
Cause Was an Explosion Of Gas in
A Chicago Building
ONE HUNDRED INJURED.
cause of Accident Not FiNed-Ga,
compsny's Expern InvesugatIpg
story OF an Rye witness

Chicago, Feb, 5.--Flfteen lives were
lost many persons slightly injured two
buildings at SI2 and ga Twenty second
street We're wrecked ana $4,000 dam.
aSed one By an explosion OF gas tonight
az the intersection Of TWcnty.second
street and Archer avenue.
DEAD.
QUO Trostal 81 years, butcher
MIS- Otto Trostal, IS years old
Olto Trostal, Jr, 2 years old.
Lena Irostal, Z years old.
Anun Tfostal, years old
Mamie TrOstal, II years old.
| lrtu' lfoslal, butcher nephew of OF
| TO lrostle, 20 years old
oophle knight, domestic in Trostle
Mary Rosenthal, 80 years old, 2lll
Purple street.
MIS- NJ, kaufert II years old.
Malnle kaufert years old.
fert
AMONG THE INJURED.
Sing Wah, Twenty-third street ana
archer avenue, blown through the win
dow cut and bruised.
bruised.
Timothy Monahan, fireman, hands
badly burned.
d. T. Collins, street car conductor:
ploWn through car from end to end;
cut and slight internal injury.
lburnes, street car conductor, blown
irOm car into the street; badly bruised.
ONE HUNDRED INJURED.
The list of injured might be extended
TO % or lOO as there We're many peo-
pie IN the neighborhood who were
slightly injured 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 Trostal. has been
recovered, All that IL known of the
tate Of the other twelve reported dead
Is that they are thought to have been
most OF them are known to have been
In the demolished houses and since the
explosion no trace Of them has been
found.
tAlSG NOI FINED,
The cause OF last nights explosion
by which a dozen lives were lost, has
not yet been fixed
TWO business men in the vicinity said
the explosion was in asdefective boiler
connected with the gas system In
the basement Of the building occupied
by Butcher Trostal which employees
had attempted to thaw out. Others
insisted the explosion was caused by
The gas itself, but they were unable
TO say how the gas had caused It.
The experts of the Peoples Gas
company are investigating the cause
and are as yet uncertain They think
some one was thawing out q pipe and
that The explosion resulted The city
fire marshal is likewise uncertain as to
the first cause.
A GRAPHIC STORY.
The most graphic story Of the acct
dent was told by j, Pauls OF 66 Twenty
second place who stood across the
street when the building went up.
THE first thing ! knew" he said, ~
was blown against telegraph pole
! was facing the market and It seemed
that the whole building rose up IN the
air at once and then collapsed into the
cellar heap of ruins. ] ran across
the street. and as | crossed the car
tracks ! could hear the cries Of the
people imprisoned In the wreckage AL
most Immediately the flames burst out
all over the place, and II seemed that
everything was on fire at once
Then caught sight Of a man
crawling out from the basement He |
did not seem to be badly hurt and call |
cd for help, | recognized him as the |
sausage maker Trostal had hired a |
few days before. do not know what |
his name s A man who ran up |
jumped down TO help him, and between |
us we gto him ia the street. He was
able TO walk and went away at once,
THE first explosion In the building |
disconnected the gas mains and they |
caught fire at once The fire seemed |
10 follow the pipes and five minutes
later the manhoe west In Archer ave-
nue. blew up with a report almost as
loud as the first. The manhoe TO the
east followed IN few minutes.
I'VE could hear the cries IN the base
ment growing fainter and we had 90 al
low the sufferers TO die without doing
anything to help them"
ACCOUNT BY EYE WITNESS.
j. c. Kleiner, proprietor OF the drug
store at Archer avenue and twenty
second street was witness 70 the
explosion. lie says that no one came
from the butcher shop after the shock
II was standing In the front OF my
store when the explosion occurred
Mr.. Keiner said. II was just looking
Town Twenty-second street when the
trembled. / saw the entire
'front.' OF the butcher shop fly out into
he street, and instantly there was
lash OF flame. | turned 20 the tele-
phone and called mp several doctors
md told them OF the disaster All OF
hem responded
u realized that something awful bad
occurred but could not tell just wat
{ was. As / turned 10 look down
he street again heard the fire depart
nent coming. Then the manholes be-
AN to explode and one by one the caps
we're blown high In the air. The force
+ the explosion was so great that the
windows in the cars were shattered,
The scene was one / VIII never for
ct. do not believe person In the
pitchers shop or the fat above es->
aped.
on Monday Otto Trostal Insured his
lie for 5000, making his wife the BEN
flciary. Yesterday Mrs. Trostal CALI
d on the insurance agent and asked
the oldest two children could be IN
ured. She said she had a presenti-
rent that something would happen.