The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-22


BrocI1ton. Mass, March 21.-A real
ization of the extent of the disaster
which had come TO the city of Brock
ton yesterday in the wrecking Of the
shoe factory of the r. B. Grover COM
pauy, and the ensuing terrible loss of
life came clearly to the citizens TODAY
when they awoke to a full knowledge
Of the horrors attendant upon the cat
Hstrophe.
All night the work Of searching for
the bodies of victims of the explosion
and fire continued with uuremitting
zeal The work was not rewarded after
midnight by the finding of any addi-
tionaI bodies until O'Clock today,
when the remains of a human being
were found in the boiler pit Consider
ing the mystery regarding the disap-
pearanCe of David Rockwell, the en-
Eineer. who was in charge of the boiler
which exploded, the porice believe the
body found today was that of the en-
Eiueer.
a careful search of the boiler pit, in
which the remains were found, result
ing in the finding of watch, the rub
ber heel of d shoe and a. torn piece of
clothing. all of which were shown TO
Mrs Rockwell, the wife of the engineer,
were Identified by her as belonging to
her husband. Then the police found a
part Of a chair with a. pelvis of human
frame in it, from which they inferred
that Rockwell was sitting beside his
boiler when the explosion came and
was killed instantly. The police are
satisfied that the report yesterday that
the engineer had been taken out alive
was due TO the confusion of Rockwell
with another employe.
The body Of Stephen Snow, IS years
old. one Of the oldest workmen in the
Grover plant, was identified today by
his SON
The remains supposed to be those Of
the engineer made the fifty fourth body
EhUS far taken from the ruined fac
tory The figures at hand today showed
that about go persons who were at
work I'm the factory when the explosion
occurred had been accounted for, and
that between fifty and 100 persons are
missing.
With reference TO the cause of the
blowing up Of the boiler Josiah F.
Gibbs. assistant engineer of the Brock
ton sewage station, who was with En-
Einecr Rockwell at the Grover factory
five minutes before the accident oc-
CURED, said today that when he left
Rockwell the steam was below the
safety limit and there was plenty of
water i'm the glass, but that he was run
ming the old boiler
The police today. in explaining the
failure Of a number of employees to re-
port their escape, cited an instance
which indicated to them that many of
the wOrkmen were dazed after the eX-
plosion- Joseph Jones, employed in the
stitching room. escaped with a few
bruises In a. confused state of mind.
Inc walked to another shoe factory in
1he city. applied for and was given en-
plpymeut. and in 4. mechanical way he
worked through the day Not until he
returned 10 his home and found his
family mourning him as dead was the
Issn's brain clear enough TO enable him
10 recall the incidents of the day When
the boiler plOWed its way upward
through the factory many operatives
were blown TO pieces, it Is believed. and
This is offered as accounting in part for
the discrepancy between the number of
bodies recovered from the ruins and the
number reported missing.
At the Brockton city hospital and the
Relief hospital today il was reported
that all of the injured passed a fairly
comfortable night and were doing as,
we'll as could be expected