New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-20

Brockton, Mass, March 20-The explosion of a
$50 horsepower boiler in the large four story
wooden factory at r. B. Grover Company's shoe
factory in the CampelIo district to-day killed
scores of employees injured half a hundred others
and destroyed property valued at $250O00 To-
night the charred fragments OF fifty bodies lay
in the morgue, and 100 additional operatives had
not been accounted for.
1t may never be known just how many per-
sons persisted in the big plant. No one knows
exactly how many persons were in the factory,
The number has been estimated at 400 but
Treasurer Charles o. Emerson said tonight
that he doubted whether there many at
work. Two hundred and fifty survivors have
been accounted for. and at midnight tonight the
/ remains Of fifty bodies had been recovered
from the ruins the search among which
was to be continued all night Fragments OF
human frames which possibly might belong to
| bodies other than those enumerated have also
been found. Few of the bodies have been
identified The head in near every case is
missing and s-exeept IN Firs nfiar< i v
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The entire Grover factory was reduced to
ashes within an hour after the explosion, the
three story block across the street, owned by
! Charles H. Dahlborg, and five dwelling houses
were burned and several other small structures
damaged.
The lists of dead and injured follow:
THE IDENTIFIED DEAD.
CARLSON, Ernest, thirty-nine. former city council
man. married
COLE, ]. Ray.
DAHLBORG, Albion.
DuNHAM. Miss Florence A. nineteen. oookkeeper
HALL. Harry H.
/ KELLY, Mrs. Elijah.
MAYO. Jerome A. fifty
PRAY. Miss Emma B.
| ROCKWELL. David
sHAwBURRows. Miss Serena, twenty old
SMITH, George.
SMITH, John.
SNOW. Stephen.
/ SWANSON, Linus
THE INJURED.
| RAEER Mrs Lena, jumped from window: scalp cut
! B1cKNEIsI. Mrs Samuel. spne hurt.
| BURGESS, Mrs August, serious contusions
| CARLSON Charles. spine injured
| CHISHOLM Mrs Thomas burned and bruised
CHURCHILL. Ralph. jumped from third story will re-
| coNRoY. Miss Mamie burned and bruised
/ CORLERS, Nicholas. thirty; bruised.
coUGHIIN Miss Nora. twentyeight spine injured; con-
dition critical
pEIANo Mrs Emma arms
am Re5 a GeGessar Teoovey doubfu
| EATON, Charles. both legs broken
/ CARNEY. John J.. twenty; ribs fractured
| HANLEY. P. J., forty-two. bruised.
| HOWARD, Mrs. John. internally injured by jumping
/ JONES George internally injured
! LAWRENCE Walter hurt internally.
| LEWIS Warren. blown through window; badly injured
LIGHTFoOT William. forty-eight, OF East Bridgewater;
| IIJNDELI. Andrew, burned: condition serious
I.YFoRD William. East Bridgewater; back injured
| M,cAB5 Mrs. j. H. internally injured,
MDoNALD. Daniel. OF Avon: internally injured
! MsHERRY, Daniel badly cut and bruised
| MSHERRY, Thomas, forty-seventhi ribs fractured
| MULvIHILI. Miss Elizabeth. burned and bruised.
NooNAM Miss Kitty blown through Window condition
PIERCE. Arthur twenty-eight; left shoulder badly
PIERCE, Arthur. nineteen: bruised; win
| PIERCE, Frank. seventeen; scalp lacerated
| PIERCE, Hiram, forty: seriously burned.
ROCKWELL David wife OF engineer of the factory;
bruised; will recover.
ROLLINS Charles thirty-four. Bridgewater:
sHEEHAN James. jumped from third story will re-
SHIELDS. Mrs Julia North Easson: seriously injured
about the body
! wHrrcOAiE Miss Ella, ribs fractured.
NO WARNING OF EXPLOSION
The explosion, which was followed by such
a sacrifice of life and entailed appalling in
stances of human suffering, occurred soon after
the operatives had settled down to the work of
the day. and without warning. Suddenly the air
vibrated with the roar OF an explosion At the
same moment the large wooden frame of the
factory, a four story structure. quivered. and
then the portion of it collapsed In a frac-
ton of second this section of the great build
ing had been transformed into mass Of iron
and wood wreckage, in the midst Of which
human beings were pnoned In another mo-
rnent fire had broken out in the debris and
death by fire and suffocation became the fate
| OF scores of the operatives
When the boiler exploded 1t passed upward. al
most perpendicularly. tearing passage as II
went killing many the way. After rising
high in the air 1t descended half the distance
and then, swerving northery. cut its way like
some huge projectile through dwelling house
fifty feet away and pierced another dwelling