Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-11-10

ISHPEMING, Mich, Nov 6-[ Spe-
cial. The Miners National bank was
blown up by an explosion of gas Sunday.
Three children were crushed to death
under the walls, which fell outward, and
thirteen persons were injured by flying
bricks ana glass.
J. F. Mullins May Die.
James Z. Mullins, manager of the in
surance department of the bank, was
caught by falling timbers and is expect
ed to die. The dead:
GOODMAN, STEPHEN, aged 10.
MGRATH, EDDIE, aged 49,
MAGEE, ALICE, aged L.
The seriously injured:
Raymond Butler, badly cut by flying
glass.
Thomas Flanagan, capitalist, leg broken,
severely cut about head.
Hans Gunderson, confusion of head az re.
Lorette McGee. cut by flying glass.
James +. Mullins, banker; hips crushed,
internally injured; may die.
Mrs Patrick Small, cut by flying glass.
Ignites Escaping Gas.
The accident was caused by the leak
age of gas in the basement of the bank
building. Two steamfitters were work
ing on the heating plant. One of them
struck match. The explosion followed
The structure was wrecked, the walls
being blown outward The three chill
dren killed were on their way to Sunday
school and were waiting in front of the
bank for a train to pass. They were
buried under tons of bricks.
Mr.. Mullins and the workmen were
the only ones in the building. Mullins
was found IN the basement pinned under
| heavy timbers. His hips were crushed
and he is not expected to live.
The two workmen were blown through
n.,a,,N Il i
! jured in an open boxcar, standing on Il
| nearby track.
All the teams in the city were sum
mOned to the scene, and the work of
| moving the huge piles of debris and eX-
Treating those under them was rushed.
| The explosion broke windows in many
stores in the business district and scat
tered the papers and documents of the
bank for blocks around.
The vault, which is constructed of
steel and concrete, was not injured. The
building was valued at $4,000.
The Goodman boy was the son of ].
Goodman, a logging contractor; Edward
McGrath the son of Mrs. Mary Nc
Grath, and Alice MCGEE, the daughter
of the master mechanic of the South
Shore railway.
Eight Killed by Tornado
MOUNTAIN VIEW. Ok. Nov g..
/ Eight persons are dead, four will die
and twenty-siX others were injured in
Saturdays tornado. The pathway of the
storm is about 100 yards wide and only
one mile long, but the havoc was great
In the farmers cotton gin. which was
wrecked, j. S. Barkley was crushed to
| death. A two-story school house was
| lifted straight up i'll the air, turned over.
and crashed down upon its roof just be
! side the foundation. The Methodist
| church also is Il wreck. as is the Chris
!
building.
House Blown Up: One Killed
MITCHELL, S. D., Nov. 6.-By the
explosion of a gas plant in the home of
James Garland at Armour, S. D.. his
wife was killed, the house was wrecked
and burned to the ground, and his two
children were severely burned.
Ignites Oil Tank; Will Die.
LA CROSSE, Wis, Nov. 6.-Dropping
a lighted match into an oil car tank sup
posed to be empty, George DAILY, aged
| 10, of La Crescent, Mimi, caused an eX-
plosion which will result in his dealt
Henry Yohe, aged g. was injured.
Seven Miners Killed.
| BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Nov 6.-Sey-
en- miners are dead and Il number of 9th
ers were seriously injured as the result
| of an explosion in one of the TideWatcr
| Coal and Coke company's mines at
/ Vivian.
Saves Train; Is Fatally Hurt
/ SPRINGFIELD, H.. Nov. CIVIL
! liam McMannaway, a labOrer, after saw
ing the Baltimore x Ohio flyer from ii
wreck at Okaw river bridge, slipped
through the bridge while aiding in the
transfer of passengers across the struct-
ure, and fell fifty feet into the river be-
! low. He now lies at the point of death.