Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-03-19
FIFTY OTHERS INJURED
FUR BUILDINGS TOTALLY OF;
PARTIALLY DEMOLISHED
AND MUCH COSTLY MA
CHINERY LOST.
ENGINE BOILER BURSTS
Houses Damaged Many Blocks Away
NY Pieces Flying Metal-Hod'es
81 Many Victims Dismcmbcred
and Buried In Ruins.
Special 20 Daily News

Special 20 Daily News
San Antonio, Tex, March IL
Thirty men were killed and fifty IN
jured by the explosion of an engine
boiler at $50 O'Clock this morning
in the Southern Pacific shops, where
eishty-five men we're employed
Four buildings were totally or
partially demolished Portions OF
human bodies were found three
blocks from the scene Of the explos-
ion. An Investigation will he begun
at once.
The identified dead
WALTER HOURDAN. Engineer.
l.. MANSKER, Sr Foreman black
smith shop.
WILLIAM r RRFMFR, Machin-
JAMES VALENTINE. engine in
spector.
Nc DURBIN. machinist
l.R. MILLER. Orange. Texas.
ALBERT ROBERTS helper.
+. p. SHAW, Cleburnc, Texas,
machinist.
MAY j. GoRDAN, roundhouse ON
ploye
CARL ZYSKo, blacksmith
T. BRUDY. machinist. Pittsburg.
RAYMOND + RRADY, Allegheny
Pennsylvania.
". o. HOFBLER, machinist
Five negro helpers
Except where indicated the former
homes of those killed are unknown
The amount of damage cannot be
estimated as yet, much valuable ma
chinery being buried and probably
destroyed under the weight OF a
brick wall. Rodies have been recov'
cred and more are being taken from
the wreckage as II is cleared away
One man. Walter Iouran, an engineer
who was in the cab at the time has
been identified as one Of the dead.
Police. ambulanCes, physicians
army hospital corps men, and Y. NJ
c a workers took part in tho work
of rescue. the wounded and dyinc
were taken to nearby drug stores and
ministered TO. while the dead were re-
moved to the morgues to await iden'
tification.
Nearby buildings and houses were
wrecked
The locomotive was standing In the
Yards near the shops and the explos
non came without warning. Parts 81
the round house were wrecked al
were several small buildings In the
shop inolosurc windows were broker
for blocks around and the force O
the explosion even made itself felt II
downtown districts.
Confusion followed the explosion
Fragments Of bodies were foun,
for blocks around the shop yards
Bodies and parts of bodies are beinl
dragged out of the wreckage Thu
machine shops the copper shop an'
part 81 the round house in the yard
were demolished. hardly a vestig'
OF the destroyed engine remains. TIL
Jacket OF the boiler was blown owe
block and landed between two
houss on Duval street II weigh
half n ton.
The tender was Knocked severa
hundred feet away and wrecked.
Enrines In the round house wer
smashed and the round house wa
set afire.
The men AT work In the shops ar
mostly from out Of the city. beln
brought here by the Southern Pacifi
when the strike in the shops was in
augurated last fall
The engine stood In the center o
a square formed by four buildings
and the force blasted AZ each wit
the efficacy Of dynamite. The fec
pine through which engines take fue
oil was broken and a spout OF flam
added 10 the horror.
Inside the machine and blacksmith
shop workmen never knew what har
pened More than fourteen we're dis
membered. n portion OF trunks an