Evening journal., 1902-08-21

It's terrible said Mrs. Wright Il
don't know how l will stand it, My
dear husband was in the best OF health
when he left me yesterday morning.
did not know any of the other men
who were killed, but they were each
known personally to my husband. 1t is
the worst death that could have come
/ to them"
Joseph f. Henry, late Of No. 431
South Jackson street. was a widower.
/ 81 years old who had been employed
! by the company for twenty years. His
surviving children are Mrs. Charles
Deeson, Mrs. Harry Kirk, Miss Ollie
Henry and George Henry. Mr. Henry
was member of the knights OF the
Golden Eagle and Blue Rock Castle.
Red Cross. His body has not been re-
covered.
McCormick Young Husband
John Mccormick was a husband of
but two years. He was SO years old.
With tears in her eyes his young wife
told of her sorrow and expressed doubt
OF being able to withstand it. She has
one 1-year-old baby girl. Mr.. McCor-
mick was a member OF the A. o. IT.
! William T. Burke is survived by a
widow and a family of seven grown
children. Mrs. Sarah e. Greevell. Mrs
Anna G. Walker, Mrs. Kate IL. Ritter
William f., Bertha, Albert E. Burk,
and Frank NJ Burke. He had been in
the employ OF the company for twenty.
two years. He was 56 years old.
The body of Granville Walter ar
rived at the home OF the widow Will,
an Evening journal reporter was there
( Loving hands carried the box contain
ing it into the home. darkened by III
shadow of death. The grief-strickei
widow and her only child. a 1O-year
'lold girl, were unconsolable, notWith
standing that many friends were ther,
Offering aid and comfort Mr. Waite
was 81 lears old. and the brother o
) Mrs. James T. Scott.
Two Deaths Today
Thenames of John Durham and Jame
Jester were added to the death list to
day. increasing the number Of know
dead to eleven. Jester died of burnl
in the Delaware Hospital at O'Clock
Injured May Recover
Homeopathic Hospita attendants an
nounced at 1 o'clock that John Collins
who inhaled fire and is scalded will
r recover. notwithstanding his seriou
injuries.
Thomas Reeves. whose skull is frac
tured, also may recover.
Dead viii Number Sixteen
, Officials of the paper company an
nounCed at 1880 o'clock that no bodie
had been taken out of the ruins durinl
the morning but every effort is beinl
made TO find them There are at leas
five in the ruins. As there is no doub
that the men are dead, the death lis
Will be increased to sixteen.
Some Ptful Scenes
Scenes incident to the removal O
The dead and injured were heartrend
ing.
1t was not long after the explosion
that 1000 persons were on the scent
In the mass of humanity were parents
wives, brothers and sisters of the sup
. posed victims of the catastrophe. an
! their moaning could be heard abos se tn
: din common TO such calamity. On
> woman wrhng her hands and tore he
= hair IN her frenzy. When the Phoeni
: ambulance moved through the GROVE
anxious relatives or friends would rus
4 toward it n a mad desire to learn q
its occupants were their friends. Som
saw their injured loved ones there an
became frantic. They did not see thei
+. dead, the faces being covered fror
: view. Among those who moved abou
the building was a cOlOred man, VIII
liam Harris. He walked about a
though he did not know where he was
and when something was said to hin
of the accident he pointed patheticall
to a blanket-covered body and SAID
HE was my brother"
The body of the brother, who wa
. Zachary Collins. was found beneath
mass of debris and near the freight ca
! which stood in front of the fire room.
Private carriages. in which promi
nent citizens and some newspaper me
were conveyed to the scene, served a
cOnveyances for the injured. ALE
S Lindsay, son of the vice-president G
5 the company, arrived on the scene jus
S as carriage was needed TO convey
I man to the hospital. Take my car
= riage," shouted Mr. Lindsay to Chic
e of Police Black, and in a few second
tho Lindsay carriage was on its erran
d of mercy. Newspaper men brough
T. gallons Of sweet oil in their carriages
+ Telling the News
Fifteen minutes after the explosio
r occurred, and before the Fire Depart
q lment was on the ground, a reporter fC
:. the Evening Journal was collecting th
d narrowing details. He met a doze
s bleeding and partly nude men runnin
: to and fro, some crying with pain. an
II others inUliring for their fellowIabol
ers. whom they believed to be burie
n beneath the ruins.
e It was a smoking mass. Here
Il tongue OF flame shot up from II
wreck; there a stream of escapin
a steam told of a shattered steam pip
b But beneath it all were precious huma
y bodies. II was TOO horrible to conten