The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-29
 l IN ANNISTON Six Persons Meet Their Deaths.
 OTHERS FATALLY HURT Boiler of Southern car Con- pany Blows Up.
 It Had Just Bsen Installed and pe
 clAred safs--lGlahins shsps and Toundries Turned IT. to Hospitals.
OTHERS FATALLY HURT

Anniston, Jan. 2s.-(special.l l-Ak o'clock this morning . boiler In tnG' foundry company exploded. killing six men and injuring about twenty-five- The k11t6 | ed are: Thomas Birch. whits. ptps IT.. ter; I. E. Hardy. white. core makers Js A. Foote, white, boiler maker; Jsxneg Turner. negro iaborer; Charles etronk negro fireman; John Mitchell. negro. coal handler.
 The injured are: John Sheppard, waikos'
 internal injuries. win die: !. R. Levtnas white. throat cut and head cut, compound | fracture of left arm and leg. wi1l proha~ ply die; c. F. Hall. negro. head and faoe badly cut: Andy Mckinley, negro. back of head laid open. skull fractured; C1yde Price, white, injured about the head and back; Sam Peak. white. head cut in several places; Sam Miller, white. both bones left arm broken; Robert Haynias white. neck cut by falling glass; q. 2. Manly, white. sctruck by flying br1cks Banchor Brozier, white. head cut by hy-. | ing degris; William Wright. negro. head cut; Will Jackson, negro, injured in right eye, cut about head.
 l Others who received small injuries but requiring the services of the physicianss were: Jesse Kilgore. E. l.. Chncey. Harry Kilgore, Joe Faufassen and How ard Collins. white core makers. VIII Edwards, Henry Hudgins, Lewis Brooks and George Green, negroes A large rum ber of other workmen were injured by falling debris. but were sent to their
 homes without medical attention. Foundries as Hospitals. Soon after the concussion. the large ! machine shops and foundries were cons verted into hospitals. where the doctors dressed the wounds of the suffering men. &.4
 the boilers which was being repaired by Birch, Foote and their helpers when the l boiler fibiew up. Birch was on top of boiler and was blown Through he roof to a pile of pig iron sixty feet away I Foote's head was crushed against q brick | wall and q hole made though which his l brains oozed out Hardy with twenty five other white men were working in q car room close to the boiler. The loom was completely wrecked lnd all in the room were more or less injured Besides
 the room in which the boiler vas located, l the core room and one of the car wheel foundry was wrecked One piece of the
 boiler weighing about 500 pounds was | thrown nearly two blocks.
 The boiler was installed fin the plant l Sunday and was pronounced all right by | Lee Whitaker, the chief engineer. who | came here only recently from Pittshurg | to accept the position. There was some | talk among the machinists with whom Birch was intimate. showing feeling | against Whitaker. whom they blame for putting to men to work on a boiler the condition of the one exploded. The ex- | plosIon was felt in all parts of the city | and several glasses in buildings near by were broken by the shock and the flying debris.
 The dead were put in charge of the
 undertalsers in the city and prepared for burial
 Crowds at the Scene. Crowds fiocked to the scene and 1t was
 necessary to place policemen at the gates to keep them back. The plant Is the
 largest in the city and when the accident
 was reported women and others anxious
 as to the probable fate of loved ones.
 gathered around and the cries of those
 who had lost relatives were heartrending. A. Campbell. assistant to the President
 of the company. and M. B. Duncan. Gen.
 eral Manager. are in the city. and Mir.
 Duncan said tonight that the work of re-
 placing the damaged property would be-
 gin at once.
 District Manager Altman and superin-
 tendent Wrenshall tonight made a visit
 to the homes of the injured to see that
 they were receiving good attention. The plant will probably remain shut down for the rest of the week.
 The funerals of the dead white men will
 occur tomorrow. A large number of se-
 cret societies, fire company and local
 lodges of Amalgamated Association of
 Iron, Steel and Tin Workers will attend
 the funeral of Mir. Birch who was 6 member of several orders.