The age-herald., 1902-02-06
Thirteen Persons Killed and Houses Wrecked by Ex-
 pIOsiOn of Gas'
SPuNTERS MARK THE
 SITE OF MEAT MARKE I
Entire Family of Proprietor and Sev- eraI of His Customers Buried in the RuIns-WindoWs in
 Street Cars Shattered.

Chicago. February 5.-Thirteen lives were lost, many people slightly injured two buildings at 372 and 374 Twenty-sec- ond street were wrecked and $50,000 dam age was done by an explosion of gas to- night at the intersection of Twenty-sec- ond street and Archer avenue. Following are the dead and injured. The dead:
 Otton Trostel. 35 years of age. butcher. Mrs Otto Trostel S5 years old.
 Otto Trostel, Jr., years old.
 Lena Trostel. years old.
 Annie Trosre1, g years old.
 Mammie Trostel, Il years old.
 Fred Trostel, butcher. nephew of Otto Trostel, 23 years old.
 Sophie Kenippe, domestic in Trostel family
 Mary Rosenthan. 32 years old, 211 Pur- pie street.
 Mrs. M. Kaufert. S74 Twenty-second street.
 Edward Kaufert, IA years old.
 Mamie Kaufert, 4 years old
 Andrew Kolb, roomer with Mrs. Kau- fert.
 Injured:
 Lucy Merranosly, cut on head and face by glass.
 Andrew Finstalki, cut and internal in- juries.
 Augustus Rosln-, cut about face.
 Sing Wah, Twenty-third street and Ar cher avenue, blown through window, cut and bruised.
 Nellie Merchand cut by glass.
 Kate Seaver, 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 bad ly bruised.
 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 street; badly injured.
 mdHy oI9HtiJ InJuiCu'
 The list of injured might be extended to seventy-five or one hundred as there were people in the neighborhood who sustained injuries from flying glass or slight bruises by falls. but whose names have not been reported. Only one of the bodies of the dead--that of Little Lena Trostel-has been recovered All that is known of the fate of the other twelve reported Is that they are thought to have been-the most of them are known to have been-in the demolished houses and since the explosion no trace of them has been found.
 The cause of the explosion is unknown and it has not yet been determined whether 1t was sewer gas or illuminating gas.
 Two other explosions of gas followed so quickly that 1t was hard to distinguish them. First to explode was main at Twenty-second street and Archer ave- nue. Then the manhole half block South on Archer Avenue was thrown into the air by loud explosion. Flames leaped and roared from the hole. The spread below the street and smaller manholes were blown into the air.
 Flames Shot High in Air.
 The flames from the first gas main shot high into the air and reached, with the aid of the wind the Trostle butchershop. The building was three-story frame structure and it had been weakened and nearly wrecked by the shock. It is sup posed that the occupants of the building were knocked unconscious or were too panic-stricken 10 rush from the place. The flames caught the weather worn timbers, and in an instant had enveloped he building collapsed and the occupants with out exception were carried with it to the basement The adjoining building, a two story structure, flared up, the next build ing was wrapped in flames and then another structure caught fre nre wall of a brick building at the corner of Arch CT avenue and Twenty-second street held the fire in that direction window glass throughout the neighborhood was broken and bottles ana glassware in the owell- ings and stores were thrown to the floor and broken.
 Many persons in buildings near the ex- plosion were krocked down. Scores or men and women, many or them carrying children, rushed to the streets. They were greeted by the glare of the f1re rom the manholes. Fearing a further explosion, the people rushed down the street many of the women screaming wlth Tear. On several street GIFTS Utdl thS PioNS dows were smashed and the passengers severely shaken up. When people in the cars saw the flames gush from the ground all hands rushed for the doors. A num- Der of persons were bruised and knocked down in the excited exit One car filled with passengers was thrown from the tracks.
 Three Children Among Dead.
 Among the dead are supposed to be three children of the Trostle family whose bodies have not yet been recov- cred. There were six children in the fam. fly and there is little doubt that all or the eight members of the family were killed The three other people who are said to be dead are supposed to have been GUS toners in the @seat market at the time of the explosiok5
 The origin or the second explosion is