Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-18
DEATHS NUMBER IA
Result Of Disaster in Canton,
Ohio, Plant.
SEVEN BOILERS EXPLODE
Thirty Workmen Injured, Many Of
Whom Will Die.
BODIES HORRIBLY MUTILATED
Identification of the Deceased Work
men DifHcult-Cause of the Ac-
cident Not Known.
BODIES HORRIBLY MUTILATED

CANTON. Ohio. May 1S.--With a roar
heard three miles away battery of seven
boilers at the plant of the American Sheet
and Tin Plate Company exploded yester-
day afternoon, killing fourteen men and
injuring about thirty. Among the injured
are half dozen who. it is said, will prob
ably die.
The cause of the explosion is at pres
ent unknown. The fireman and engineer.
who were in the boiler room, are dead.
No one else about the plant who sur
vived can explain the accident. One
workman says that he heard three dis
| tinct explosions In quick succession. They
came SO close, however. that it was all
| over In an instant. The force of the con-
cussion was terrific. The big plant is In
total loss. A mere shell of the building
is left.
Bodies Are Mutilated.
Identification of the men was difficult.
many of them being so mutilated that
| even their most intimate friends could
not recognize the features. Heads We're
blown off and arms and legs were torn
| from the trunks. fragments of bodies
| were blown several squares from the
scene. and bits of human flesh have been
picked up OH pOTCHeS anu ToOlS VI houSCS
and iii trees.
! There were 100 persons at work in the
plant at the time of the accident. Only
about a dozen escaped injury. These and
Others who rushed to- the plant as soon
as the disaster was known, worked hero
ically to rescue the injured. The ruins
sooslf took fire. but the fire department
extinguished the flames.
| The list- Of known dead is =.
George A. Lemley. catcher; - Roger,
L NIe IN
Walter Rfngenberger,' heater; George
Bole heater. Charles Brown: heater; j.
Henry. catcher: Jack Wheeland, Harry
Belyzley. II. Lothamer Dubler. Peter
Wollgoof, +. Dunlap, Charles Richards
/ and two unidentified men.
! Some of the injured are:
| Hiram StulZ. left arm broken; Joe Row.
right foot hurt: John Vorson. whose in
/ juries could not be learned, and was
/ operated upon: III. V. Perego, seriously
| hurt: Alonzo Steiner. right shoulder man.
gled; Charles Cape, struck in the chest
with flying debris and badly scalded;
| Louis Hughes fireman, struck by debris
and leg broken, and A.-W. Kaufman,
| storekeeper, cut, and bruised.
Searching for the Dead.
| Members Of the" bereaved families
rushed frantically toithe plant and thence
to hospitals and residences near. the
ruined shops in an effort to find a trace Of
| their. Ioveda ones. 1t was thought at s
o'clock last night that all the dead had
been removed ffoms1the debris. It was
| then stated that SO far as known the
dead numbered twenty, but this did not
include those Who had died at their
homes after removal from the ruins.
The body of one man. unknown.,. was
blown through a house over 700 feet from
the plant:T The body entered the house
fronys{hE cast side. and continued in a
| straight Tine through a. bedroom and out
| on the other side of the house to Louis
| avenue. The torso of another man was
found in. the garden of r. yard about 800
| feet Vest of the scene.. The bodies of
seven tnen nlitilated beyond recognition,
| were found In the north end of the mill.
For Gods sake hit me on the head
| and kill Ine!'' cried one workman to a
| man who had found him. The injured
man had an arm torn off and a great
| hole in his side.
| The plant had FIVE mills. All the en-
ployes working at mills 1, 2, and 4
| were either killed or injured, while the
men in mill 5, farthest from the boilers,
ESCAPED serious injury.