Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-22

| two were before then numbered among
the missing. At 9 O'Clock, tonight, the
revised figures show:
Number of bodies recovered SIS.
| Missing A.
Reported safe 26S.
| The names of The dead identified are
as follows:
Ernest Carlson, 81, former city cOuE-
Gilman
jerome A. Mayo So.
James Ray Cole, Sc, water carrier il
| factory.
Miss Florence a. Durham, -.
Mrs Susan B. Pray, 40.
Miss Serena Shaw Barrows, 50.
| Stephen Snow, So.
| David W. Rockwell. 80, the engineer
| in charge of the exploded boiler.
| Granville Hartwcll, 20.
| Miss George Emerson. %.
| Miss Mary OConnell. a.
Miss Emma NJ. TslI.nan 50.
Harry Bartlett, %, OF East Bridge
| water.
The revised list of missing employees
contained the following names:
William Armstrong. Kate Kelley.
| Timothy Desmond Arthur S. Pray,
/
| Henry W. Weeks. Wallace AbercOmbie
| William Jetfe:ds, Isaac HoXey, James
Jackson, Walter 4. Copeland, J. V.
Turner. Mrs. Dora Clark. Mrs. William
f. Kelley. Jesse Chandler Whitman.
Miss Myra Burgen, Mrs. William v.
Hurd. Marion Tufts. Mrs. Claire At
wood Mrs. Georgia Emerson, Florence
Merrill. Samuel Lovejoy. Wallace Vim
| al. A. J. Fortier. A. S. Ray. Irving c.
| Baker. George 3. Burgess. Jalmo-an
Hallett, Ablin Dahlborg, Frank En-
ersOn. Henry c. kibbe, Thomas Lang
ley. Joshua Snow, Mary Fitzpatrick.
William A. Gilfllan. Samuel A. lyle,
| Jennie Styles. A. r. Nelson, Nellie
Leary. Mary Leonard. Barnabas Lewis,
Linus Swanson. May Leary. u. Phillip
S. Smith, so. Hannah Swidlcy, Harry
! II. Hall.
| Mayor Keith. tonight. received the
| following cablegr;,m from President
| Arthur Faire of the Boot Manufacture
e:s' Association. Leicester. England:
'Sinc"re sympathy with sufferers il
| Brocktons dreadful calamity
| kilograms were received from Mayor
| Collins and several other cities
| throughout the state. Captain r. p.
Grover. president of the r. p. Grover
Co. who had been i'll for several weeks
| past. was informed. today of the ter
rible loss of life. which attended the
destruction of his factory and was told
| gently to the details. which he insist
| Ell should be withheld from him no
| longer. The tears forced down his
| checks. and in Il broken voice he eX
pressed his grief at the sufferngs of
| employees and their families. Captain
| Grover was told. yesterday of the de-
| struction Of his factory. but owing to
his weakened condition. il was thought
| best to withhold from him the fact
| that many had been killed. At that
| time. Captain Grover exclaimed at
| what was supposed to be the end of
| the narrative: 81 am glad no lives were
| lost. Had there been. l should have
| felt it my duty to care for the falni-
| lies as long as I lived
| Although temporarily overcome up
| on learning the extent of the disaster.
| Captain Grover was somewhat better.
| tonight and was able to sit up for
some time.
A more careful search Of tho boiler pit
| in which the remains were found resulted
| in the finding of a watch. the rubber heel
| OF shoe and torn piece of clothing.
| all of which when shown to Mrs Rock
we'll. the wife of the engineer. were ident-
| flied by her as belonging to her husband.
| Then the police found part of chair
with a pelvis of a human frame in ii
| from which they inferred that Rockwell
was sitting beside his boiler when the
explosion came, and that his fate was in
stantly sealed The police then became
| satisfied that the report. Monday. that the
engineer had been taken ont alive was du"
| to the confusion of Rockwell with another
| employe.
AS of interest bearing upon the cause
of the blowing up of the boiler beside
which, it appeared from Tuesdays evil
dcnce, the engineer was sitting at the
moment of the explosion. signed state
mcnt was given out. Tuesday. by Josiah
p Gibbs the assistant engineer at the
Rrockton sewerage station. who said he
| was with Rockwell five minutes before
the accident occurred.
Mr.. Gibbs said:
"When I left Rockwell the steam was
below the safety limit and there was plen-
ty of water in the glass, but he was run
ming the old boiler.
The police in explaining the failure
of number of employees to report their
escape, cited an instance which indi-
Gated to them that many Of the wrok-
men were dazed after the explosion.
Jocerh Jones. employed in the stitch
ing room made his escape with scarce
ly more than & few bruises. In a con-
fused state of mind he walked to an
other shoe factory in the city, applied
for and WAS given employment and IN
a mechanical sort of way he Workea
throughout the day. Not until he re-
turned to his home and found his fami-
ly grief stricken and mourning him as
dead was the mans brain sufficiently
clear to enable him to recall the incl
dents of the day.
When the boiler ploughed its way up
ward through the factory many opera
tives were blown to PIECES. it is be-
lieved. and this is offered as account
ing in part for the discrepancy between
the number of bodies recovered from
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