Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-03-18
In Two Hours Eighteen Bod
les Were Recovered From
Debris and Moro Lives Are
known to Have Been Lost.
DYNAMITE SUSPECTED AS
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER
Victims Were strikebreakers
Who Have Been Working
in Southern Pacific Yards
Since ShOpmen's Strike.

(By Eveuins Herald A. r. Leased wIrs)
san Antonio. Tex. March 1s.-At
least twenty-seven persons were killed
In the explosion OF locomotive
boiler az the Southern Pacific round
house today.
Eighteen bodies had been recover
ed within two hours after the ex-
pIosion and more were being remov-
ed. Nearby stores and buildings were
filed with injured. The round house
and cooper shops were wrecked by
the explosion and many men working
In them were hurt By failing walls.
The army hospital stan here was
rushed TO the YARDS and police am
balances and Y. NJ G.. A. workers
were organized into rescue bands 20
take out the dead and try and save
the lives OF the Wounded
The victims were said to be strike
breakers who have been working in
the Southern Pacific shops since the
shopmen's strike began several
months ego. After the explosion, ru-
mors In the downtown section Of San
Antonio were that dynamite was tho
causv bat investigation ~ tho yards
showed no indications that such ru-
mors had started there
San Antonio has been practically
free from violence during the strike.
Engines in the round house were
smashed and the round house caught
fire. The halt-ton Jacket OF the ex-
piOding locomotive boiler dropped be-
tween two houses on Duval street
several blocks distant. while the ten
der was cafapulted several hundred
yards and twisted into a shapeless
mass OF steel.
A majority Of the men who we're
killed we're from northern and west
ern states. but much difficulty Is be-
ing experienced In identifying the
bodies.
Twenty-seven dead have been re-
moved from the wrockago and the
search was not complete.
Among the first dead Identified was
Walter Jcpvdan OF San Antonio. an
engineer vino was In the cab when
the locomotive exploded.
Robert X. Lipseomh, foreman OF
the shops, was picked up from his
feet. hurled thirty feet and arose.
semi- conscious. grasping in his hand
the hat Of a dead man.
Inside the machine and blacksmith
shops the greatest loss of life was
aotod. Here fifteen or more men
we're killed. portions OF their bodies
being found jnmmed IN crevlces IN
the roof and sides or entangled inI
machinery. A great portion 10 the
wall fell inward. burying twelve
men.
Mrs b. s. ellis, aged 62, in her
homo seven blocks away. was prob
ably fatally injured when the front
end OF the locomotive crashed into
the roof domolishlng three rooms and
continuing through TO the ground
floor.
In addition 10 all available medical
aid, relief organizations. a squad of
the THIRD United States cavalry and
the ciiy's entire police force Joined
la the relief work.
Aside from Jourdan the Identified
dead are:
j. Hurdy. machinist, psttsburg, PA.
Mansker Sr, foreman black
smith shop, San Antonio.
Brady. maehinist, address un-
known
william r. Bremen. machlnlst. adj
dress unknown.
w, o. Hoibler. air man. address un-
known.
In the copper shop n. A, Williams,
the foreman, was Knocked under a
heavy work bench, the entire struc-
ture plunging down over him. bat he
escaped with burns and bruises lie
remained under the debris until half
an hour after the explosion.
Among the shrieks of the injured
OF the explosion arose the roar of
flaming oil from the feed pipe
through which the on burning loco
motives fin their tenders This pipe
had hrokon and isnited. The flow OF
oil was cut OF.