Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-02-10

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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 z.
Annie Trostle, aged 8.
Marie Trostle, aged IL.
Fred Trostle, butcher, nephew of
Otto Trostle, aged %.
Sophie Knight, domestic in the
Trostle family.
Mary Rosenthal, aged 80.
Mrs. M. Kaufert.
Edward Kaufert, aged IA
Mamie Kaufert, aged 4.
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 window,
cut and bruised.
Nellie Merchant, cut by glass.
Kate Seavor, cut on face and head.
Emma Folz, cut by glass.
]. 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
Trostle--has 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 I'M
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
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 ax-
plode was the main at 22d street and
Archer avenue. The manhole half
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 Trostles butcher
shop. The building, a three-story
frame, lad been weakened and nearly
wrecked by the shock. 1t is supposed
that the occupants were knocked I'M
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 It 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