The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-19
The Dead.

The Dead.
ANTONIO PlCoNE, ssl Charlotte
street: married; one child; employed BY
Joe Defayo.
MICHAEL o'BRIEN. 8 years old. son
OF John o'Brien. 80 East Fourth street.
The injured.
Joseph Calandrino, IL years old SOC
Harrison street; deep scalp wound. glass
blown into face and mead: dangerous.
Joseph Showers. 80 years old. function
hotel; employed by KeIlog & Phillips;
right leg broken and knee dislocated.
Antonio Lacascio. 1e years old, t0s
Holmes streets cuts on head and legs
bruised.
Henry Kinney. negro, 70 years old.
worked TOR Picone: lives at 10T Lafayette
street. Kansas City, Kan: cuts on head
and side bruised.
Willie Ray. Z years old. 500 Missouri
ave-; cuts on back Of head: not danger.
Gus.
Joseph Nigro. 10 years old; cut by fy-
Ing glass; not dangerous.
Ralph Rosendale. 705 Main street. book
keeper right oot-hruised- and-cut-hy
glass.
Kansas City, Nov. 17.-Natural gas
that escaped from rubber tubes ex-
ploded Tuesday morning In commits
sion house at 523 Walnut street. One
man and boy are dead and seven
men and boys are injured as a result.
The building three.story structure
with a basement, Is occupied by the
Kellogg & Phillips Commission COM
pany and the II. l.. Nicol Fruit and
Produce company. This was the situa-
ton in the building at the time:
In the glass enclosed business office
H. l.. Nichol and Ralph Rosendale, a
bookkeeper, were working over &C.
counts at standing desk. In the
back room Of the building Joseph
salesman, was checking
sgg cases. In the banana ripening
room in the basement Antonio Picone,
In Italian foreman employed by Joseph
)efeo of the city market was working.
And in the alley were a dozen small
,oys on roller skates.
The bookkeeper and Mr.. Nichol In
he glass office on the first floor paus.
ID a minute. The bookkeeper loked
lp at the clock and saw it was 5 min
ties to la good time to eat an ap-
lie. Then
The building suddenly appeared to
dull roar of thunder sound
ID; an the floor appeared to sink. The
lass in the Office enclosure fell with
crash. One big window sash poised
ust above the two mems heads while
hail of broken glass was hurled
own from the skylight.
In moment, from the back of the
uilding and the basement, shireks and
roans sounded. Through the dust
hat filed the room the two men in
he office ran back to where the cries
we're sounding. They found Showers,
he salesman, lying pinned under
asses of eggs with his right leg broken
nd right knee dislocated. In the al.
ey an S-year-old boy, Michael O'Brien,
ne Of the roller skaters, was so stun
ed by the conclusion that he died q
ew moments after he was taken to
he emergency hospital. In the base
1ent, dead and crshed under a huge
lie of unripened bananas, was Picone,
he foreman. Six other men and boys
,ere injured.
The bananas are ripened by heat
rom small flattened-out gas stoves in
Thich natural gas is used A. B. Mac
eth, engineer of the gas company,
1as one of the first men to make an
Inspection after the explosion. He
aid that it was probably due to
scaping gas that had leaked through
ubber tubes. These, he found, had
cen used in some places to make con-
ections to the stoves. The rubber
OTIS and the gas escapes through holes
0 small that they are not noticeable,
ut which accumulate gas for an ex.
losion. The use of the rubber tubes |
strictly against all the company's
ules, Mr.. Macbeth said, and viola.
on of the city building ordinances.
1t was some time before the O'Brien |
oy was identified. He was uncon-
cious when taken to the emergency |
ospital and died soon afterwards. |