The Globe-republican., 1905-03-23
Unknown Number Of Employees Killed
And Injured.
F|FTy.THREE BODIES RECOVERED
At This Hour 235 Survivors Have
Been Accounted For-Estimates Of
Dead Range From 60 to 80, and Of
the Injured From 50 to 100.

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sons have been recovered from the
ruins of the Grover & Co. factory.
Seven bodies have been identified, but
only three or four positively. Fifty
three persons are known to be still
missing, the names of thirty-one Of
whom have been obtained. Many
others are reported missing, but 1t is
considered possible that some of
them are at their homes in nearby
towns,
At this hour 253 survivors have been
accounted for. The estiamtes of the
dead range from 60 to SO. and Of the
injured from 50 to 100. Many per-
SONS not seriously hurt went to their
homes and did not report their in
iuries.
There have been no deaths at the
hospitals, where but four persons are
on the dangerous list.
At least sixty persons were killed
by the explosion of boiler in large
shoe manufacturing establishment in
the Campello district conducted by
The R. B. Grover company.
The explosion was Immediately fol-
lowed by a flash Of flame, which con
sumed the factory,a long, four-story
structure, as If it were a house of
cards, and incinerated an unknown
number of men and women who were
unable to extricate themselves from
mass of tangled wreckage formed
by the terrific upheaval in the boiler
room. More than 50 of the employees
in the building were manned, burned
Or bruised by the time they reached
safe ground. Some had jumped from
the roof and windows and others had
been injured in the mad rush to
escape from the doomed factory,
which from all parts emitted the heat
of an inferno, driving back the band
of heroic rescuers who in a few mo-
ments had performed gallant SER
vice.
1t may never be known just how
many persons persisted in the wreck
age. No one knows exactly how many
persons were in the factory. The
number has been estimated at 400,
but Treasurer Chas. 0. Emerson said
tonight that he doubted whether there
were SO many at work. Two hundred
and fifty survivors have been &C
counted for, and at midnight the re-
mains of fifty bodies had been recoy-
cred from the ruins, the search being
continued all night Fragments Of
human frames which possibly might
belong to bodies other than those
enumerated have also been found The
head in nearly every instance is miss
ing and except in rare instances it
was impossible even to distinguish
the SEX
Chief of Police Boyden expressed
the opinion that some of the en-
ployes had not reached the factory at
the time of the explosion and that I'M
doubtedly a number of those living
in nearby places were injured and
had gone home without reporting |
their injuries. He thought that many |
of those unaccounted for more than
100 in number, were among these,
Imprisoned operatives too far away |
for rescue, and VINO knew tnal lneiF |
lives would last but few moments,
spoke words of encouragement to
those who seemed nearer escape,
Some prayed aloud, others pleaded
with the rescuers to say goodbye
to relatives. The spectacle unneryed
many who were yainly trying to get
to the victims, and some turned away
sick and fainting. Members of the
fire department with ladders aided
greatly in the work of rescue, but
their time for work was short, for
within a brief interval fire closed over
the wreckage and the cries of the i'm
were hushed.