The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Scenes of Horror Follow Ois- asttr in Shoe Factory in
 BroctOn, Mass,
DOZENS ARE PINIONED
 UNDER MASS OF DEBRIS
Wreckage Takes Fire and Men and Women Are cremated In Agony. Heroic Rescues Are
 Performed. III,

Brockton, Mass, March 2O.-This city is in mourning tonight for at least three score of her citizens, whose lives were totted out early today by the explo- sion of boiler in a large shoe manufac- turing establishment in the Campello district. conducted by the R. B. Grover company.
 The explosion was immediately follow ed by a flash of flame which consumed the factory, long four-story structure, as if 1t were a house of cards, ana in- cinerated an unknown number of men and women, who were unable to extricate themselves from mass of tangled wreckage formed by the terrific upheaVai in the boiler room
 Ii may never be known just how many persons perished in the wreckage No one knows exactly how many persons were in the factory. The number has been estimated at 4oO but Treasurer Charles o. Emerson said tonight he doubted whether there were so many at work. Two hundred and fifty survivors have been accounted for. and at midnight the remains of fifty bodies had been re- covered from the rulhs' tile se"iSAA DS9 continued all night.
 Fragments of human frames wnleh possibly might belong to bodies other than those enumerated have also been found. Few of the remains have been identified The head in nearly every case is missing. and except in rare instances if was impossible even to distinguish the sex.
 Bodies Lie In Morgue.
 Tonight the charred fragments of forty three hodies lay in the morgue. and IA additional operatives had not been accounted for. It is probable that the number of dead will never he. known Of those missing, the police expect that quite number will report tomorrow. The death list Is estimated at from fifty to seventy-hve.
 The entire Grover factory was reduced to ashes within an hour after the ex- plosion. The three-story block across the street, owned by Charles H. Dahioorg, and five dwellings were burned.
 The search of the remains was In pro- gress the entire afternoon, and was con { tinued tonight.
  eressed slowly, owing to generally unre- cognzable condition of the victims { The list of identified dead follows: The Dead.
 John R. Cole.
 H. H. Hall
 Jerome A. Mayo.
 George Smith.
 Emma R Pray
 Florence A. Durham. bookkeeper' aged l9 years.
 The Injured.
 The following were seriously injured, many of them, it is believed, fatally: Nora Coughlin, critical; Herman Pierce serious; William Lightfoot, dangerous; Charles Rolins serious; Arthur Pierce, will recover; Mrs. J. H. McCabe, inter- nal injuries; James Sheehan and Ralph Churchill jumped from third-story win dows, will recover; Mrs. David Rockweil' will recover; George Jones. internal in- juries; Mrs. August Burgess, serious; Charles Carlson, spine injured; Mrs. John Howard, internally injured; Daniel Mc- Donald, internal injuries; Mrs. Lena Ba- ker. Mrs. Thomas Chisholm, Elizabeth Mulvihill, Mammis Conroy, Kitty Noon, blown through window, serious; Daniel McSherry. Warren Lewis serious; Frank Pierce John Garvey, Nicholas Gorleis, Thomas McSherry, P J. Hanley, Andrew Lundell, serious; Elmer H. Dodge. seri- ous; Ella Whitcomb Walter Lawrence Mrs Samuel Bicknell, Charles Eaton Mrs Julia Shields. serious; Mrs Emma } Delano, William Tyford.
 Had Just Begun Days Work.
 The explosions which was followed by such A sacrifice of life and entailed ap- nalling instances of human suffering, oc- cured shortly after the operatives had settled down to work for the day. Sud- denly the air vibrated with the roar of an explosion. At the same moment the larger wooden frame of the factory of the four-story structure, quivered and then the rear portion of 1t collapsed In a fraction of a second this section of the great buildin ghad been transformed irto mass of iron and wood wreckage in the midst of which human beings were pinioned In another moment fire had broken out in the debris, and death by fro and suffocation became the fate of scores of the operatives
 When the boiler exploded it passed up- ward. almost perpendicularly, tearing passage as 1t went, killing many on T the way Rising high in the air, it de- scended half the distance and then swerving northerly, cut its way like some huge projectfle through dwelling house fifty feet away. and pierced another dwelling further along, demolishing the latter structure. Here it's course was stol ped.
 Seen. of Horror Follows Explosion. Scenes of horror followed the wrench ing apart of the factory building In the rear the three upper floors weighted as they were with heavy machinery, col Iapsed with crash that was heard for blocks Men and women operatives working in departments of this section who were busy at their machines had time but to turn in attempting to flee after the first dull roar. when the floor ing sank beneath them. and they were carried to the ground floor, crushed and bruised amid the mass of debris Many fell into veritab1e fire furnace. In the --&t~~~ o& ho fooforv mhfeh remained