The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-02-11
ELEVEN PERSONS killed.
Terrible Result of Series of Ex-
plosions of Accumulated Gas
in Chicago.
THE DEAD ARE BURIED IN THE DEBRIS.
Mains Blow Up Along the Street and
Hurl Cars from the Track-Two
buildings Wrecked and Fronts of
Many others Blown Out-Bodies
Taken from the Ruins.

Chicago, Feb. eleven lives were
lost and score of persons injured in
an explosion Wednesday night that de-
molished two buildings and blew out
the fronts of dozen other structures
in Archer avenue at Twenty-secon
street. Street cars We're lifted from
the rails and whirled round and round
on the pavement, gas mains blew up
and sent steel and iron manhole covers
crashing through space, flame mounted
high at a dozen points and panic
reigned for almost an hour. FiremeE
and policemen and ambulances and
patrol wagons were hurried to the
scene, and the conveyances were used
to carry away the injured. The dead
lay buried beneath mass of burning
debris and could not be reached.
Bodies Recovered.
The moment the fire had been beaten
down in the tangled mass of wreckage
that marked where the buildings had
stood Marshals Campion and Mahoney
led their men to their next task. 1t
was the search of the ruins for the
bodies of the missing, and half an hour
after the hunt began, just at midnight,
the remains of Lena Trostel were
found, badly burned, but sufficiently
preserved to be identified. A few min
utes later two other bodies were re-
covered and We're recognized as those
of Otto Trostel the father, and his IL
year-old daughter Annie. In a short
time the firemen came upon two other
bodies, evidently those of women,
though they We're badly charred. One
of these was declared to be the remains
of Mrs. Trostel and the second was
identified by John Rosenthal as that of
his sister. After this the bodies were
come upon one after another until II
had been taken out.
The Dead.
The list of dead is as follows:
Otto Trostel. So years, 376 Twenty-second
street, butcher.
Mrs Augusta Trostel. wife of Otto.
Annie Trostel, II years.
Lena Trostel, years.
Miss Mary Rosenthal. 80 years old, Pill
Purple street; customer; identified by her
brother. John Rosenthal.
Miss Sophia Kneipp domestic.
Minnie Trostel. years.
Otto Trostel, Jr., years.
Bernard Trostel, 1k years.
Fred Trostel, rs years, nephew OF Otto
Trostel.
Otto Giermann, sausagemaker in the
shop.
Starts in Meat Shop.
The first explosion, which was fol-
lowed by four more bursts of flame
and noise along the road in Archer
avenue, occurred in the basement OF
the meat shop conducted by Otto
Trostel, two-story brick and frame
building at 376 Twenty-second street
There was a terrific roar and the
frame building trembled, then seemed
to fall into thousand parts and col
lapse. The entire front blew out and
went whirling across the avenue
while the roof and the side walls
crumbled and fell in, carrying the
helpless men and women and chill
dren down into the mass of fire and
broken timbers.
More Explosions.
There was second deafening roar
Then came two more detonations, like
the echoes of the first. From the cen.
ter of the street portions of the pave
ment seemed to rise up into the air, te
give way for columns of flame that
shot up. The explosion in the meat
shop had sent line of flame through
the gas mains leading into the street
and the big pipe, buried deep in the
ground was bursting atvarious points
and finding vent at the conduit open
ings along the thoroughfare. The
burning illuminant darted off in va
rious directions. following the supply
into several buildings, there to repeat
the explosions and work new damage
Sampson Protests.
Washington, Feb. s.-Admiral Samp