The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-21

Grover
company estimated the loss on the fac
tory at 100000. and the loss on the
other burned structures was placed at
about $4,000.
Dead and Injured.
The list of identified dead follows:
J. Ray Cole.
Harry Il. Hall
JereOna Mayo, aged 50.
George Smith.
Emma b. Pray
Florence A. Durham. bookkeeper.
aged 20.
The following were seriously injured.
many of them it is believed fatally:
Nora Coughlin, IS, contusions of
spine, critical.
Herman Pierce. 40; burns, serious.
William Lightfoot, IS: East Bridge
water, burns. dangerous.
Charles Rollins, "a; East Bridgewater,
serious.
Arthur Pierce. Commissions, will re-
cover.
Mrs. J. H. McCabe. internal injuries.
James Sheehan and Ralph Churchill,
| jumped from third story. viii recover.
Mrs. Davis Rockwell, wife OF engineer
of the factory, cOntusions; viii recover
George Jones. internal injuries.
Mrs. Augustus Burgess, Commissions;
serious
Charles Carlson, spine injured.
Mrs. John Howard, internally in
jured by leaping from third story.
Daniel Mcdonald, internal injuries.
Mrs. Lena Baker, jumped from win
| dow, scalp cut open.
Mrs. Thomas Chisholm, burns and
bruises.
Mamie ConrOy. burns and bruises.
Elizabeth MulvihilL burns and
bruises.
Kitty Noonan, blown through WIN
dow, serious.
Daniel Mcsherry, bad cuts and
| bruises.
Warren Lewis, blown through win
| dow, badly injured.
Frank Pierce II: lacerated scalp.
Arthur Pierce, IS; left shoulder badly
lacerated-
Nicholas Coriers. so; COMMISSIONS.
Thomas McSherry, AZ; fractured
ribs
p. J. HanIey. AZ; contusions.
At the BTOCktOn hospital,
Andrew Lundell. burns. condition
serious.
Elmer II. Dodge. compound fracture
of right leg necessitating amputatiOn;
recovery doubtful.
Taken to their homes or to offices of
physicians:
Ella Whitcomb. ribs fractured.
Walter Lawrence hurt internally.
Mrs. Samuel ThicknelI spine hurt.
Charles Eaton. legs broken.
Mrs. Julia Shields North Easton,
serious, body injuries
Mrs. Emma DeIanO arms and head
cut.
Mrs. Samuel BickneH. 80; head and
spine injured.
Forest Wetherbee. p; fireman.
Ruins Catch Fire.
The explosion. which was followed
! by such a sacrifice of life and entailed
appalling instances of human suffering
| occurred shortly after the operatives
had settled down to work for 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 rear
| portion of it collapsed. This section
Of the great building had been trans
! formed into a mass Of iron and wood
wreCkage. in the midst of which hu-
man beings were DiniOned. In another
moment fire had broken out in the de-
bris. and death by fire and suffOcation
| became the fate of scores Of the opera
Blown High In Air.
When the boiler exploded it passed
upward almost perpendicularly, tear
on the way After rising high in the
air it descended half the distance and
then, swerving nOrthward, cut its way
! like some huge prOjectile through a
| dwelling house fifty feet away and
! pierced another dwelling further along.
| Scenes of horror followed the wrench
| ing apart Of the factory building. In
the rear of three upper floors, weighted
as they were with heavy machinery,
collapsed with a crash that was heard
for blocks Men and women working
| in departments of this section who were
busy at their machines, had time but
TO turn in an attempt TO fee after the
first dull roar when the flooring sank
! beneath them and they were carried
to the ground floor. crushed and bruised
amid the mass Of debris. Many fell
into a veritable fiery furnace. In the
| sections of the factory which remained
standing the operatives were panic
stricken as they sought escape.
Jump From Windows.
Many fled down the stairways and
reached the street. others ran to the
windows. the fire escapes in many
! cases having been torn away by the
explosion. In desperation many
jumped from the second and third
story windows to the ground and were
dangerously injured. The crush on the
stairways resulted in numerous minor
injuries
Scarcely had the rear portion of the
structure collapsed when a tongue of
fame started up from the boiler pit,
and reaching out as it assembled. COM
municated with the splinters OF the
wreckage and Immediately afterward
with the standing walls. Soon the en-
tire story was in flames.
Instant death was the fate of many
who went down with the floors that
collapsed A large number of men
and women who were working near the
supports were alive after the floors
and walls fell. From these unfOrtunates
cries of agony and terror went up. AL
most all had been caught between