Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-07-07
FIVE men KILLED
LIGHTING PLANT IN MINNEAPo.
LIS SALOON BLOWS BUILD
ING TO BITS.
BUILDING BLOWN TO Bits
Four Unknown Women Picnickers Es-
cape With Cuts and
Brave Rescue5
Made.

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The Dead: y
s. Charles Giebenhain, 48 years i
4 old, bartender. St
Louis o. Hamish, 81 years old, *
painter. *
Eugene HamIin, rs years old, *
x teamstsr. %
So Albert Hirth, Brickton, Mimi, s.
: about % years old. s.
Middieaged man thought to be *
Joseph silhaugh, ~ years old, *
s. carpenter. X
The Injured: *
Edward Boucher, IS years old, *
= proprietor u the Point saloon, X
burned and bruised about the *
head and shoulders; hearing and *
: sight probably destroyed; *
George Miller, 27 years old, *
4 piasterer. Severely burned about *
) the chest and face. ~
g Ernest Osterheld, SO years old, Il
3 porter. One arm and his face bad Il
L Iy burned. u
Four unidentified, elderly wom- *
en-, members of a picnic party *
who were in the large room back *
OF the bar when the tank explod- *
ed, cut and burned. X
II * u n
Minneapolis, MINI. Five men
were killed and three injured when,
with defamation that could be heard
for several miles, the acetylene gas
generating tank in the basement of
the Point saloon, at the intersection of
the Crysal lake and Robbinsdale roads
near Minneapolis was blown I'D, hurl-
ing the walls of the building outward
and killing and manning soma IA per-
sons who were in the place. The ex-
Dlosion was followed by a fire which
reduced the shattered structure to
ashes and horribly charred and dis
lgured the bodies of those who failed
o escape with their lives.
Watch Stops at 4:22 p. m.
According to a gold watch found ON
he body of Charles Giebenhain, the
artender, the explosion occurred at
~ p. M, at which time the watch
topped. An alleged defect in the
cetylene generator, which was used
Or Illuminating purposes only. is hint
d at as the cause of the accident, al
hough from the twisted and iumbled
lass of boiler plate and metal in the
asement of the ruins, the real cause
lay never be ascertained.
The acetylene plant was located in
he basement near the north wall and
Midway between the front and rear
f the cellar. 1t was directly under
ne end of the bar.
The blast literally tore out the front:
nd one side of the building, hurting
cams, timbers and glass across the
rysal Lake and the Robbinsdale
Dads. The corner support between
ne two shattered walls was also
Town away and the roof of the struc-
Ire hung above, supported only by
he rafters running to the rear and
Their side wall of the building
Floors Shoot skyward.
Both the first and second floors in
he front part of the building shot
1yward, carrying with them bar, fix
Tres, contents of the cellar and oc-
lpants of the bar room. The roof
ithstood the terrible upheaval and
lie splintered wreckage fell back into
lie pit of the basement The floors
the rear room, separated from the
ar room b. strong partition, bent
pward before the blast like so much
arvas, but did not fall into the base
ent.
George Miller Is Freed.
Amid the heart-rending cries ana ,
roans of the men buried and pinned
own in the forward part of the base
ent when the flames were rapidly ,
lrring the wrecked shell into seeth-
g furnace, the rescue party hacked
way at the woodwork and freed Mil
r. He was carried to the road,
here he tainted. Repeated efforts
ere made to aid the other men whose
sonized shrfeks as the fire reached
em drove the workers on to desper-
e endeavor, but the shattered and
artially supported roof hung an I'M
able canopy over the buring human
t and warned the rescuers away by
e dropping of huge timbers and
aiming beams.
At the risk of burns and failing into
e cellar to say nothing Of the posi-
lily of more explosions, fremen and
tizens crowded close to the burning
reckage and dragged large burning
lrts out into the road. The first
,dy to be recovered was that of
ebenhain. The charred mass was
aced on board and covered with
lnny sacking.
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