| Show BIG EXPLOSION OF GASOLINE Further Details of the tho thoi Fatal Affair at Philadelphia Pat BODIES TAKEN fAKEN 1 Neighborhood WP ed by Col Colored r ol l lored ored urcal Icet Limit Hut Only Philadelphia Pa Ia Aug Au G n col cob colored ored Irod persons are tiro be dead as act asa acta a II result of the time terrible gasoline explosion sion last lust night which toro lore to at iw six buildings on Locust street between Tenth and Eleventh streets wrecked over a n score o 8 oro ro of ot As M Asto A Ato to the thc number that yet yot remain In the lIce ruins of at the tho wrecked buildings all nil Is nero mare speculation Only one of the thc seven ey n bodies bOdle r co erod Onus has been beau Identified This Is hI Annie Harris a I child four t f Ur years yeara old who lived at 1013 Locust sited on O the tho up op aide Ido of oC the street from the build building lug ing In In which the thc explosion c occurred The de d are arc a II child chiki about 8 S years cars of ot age two woman and three men me It was 7 this morning before the firemen after working hard all night had time the sum auth cooled oil off to enable them to be begin fo gin n a search for tOr the bodies b J le Their attention was first directed to t lotS 1018 Locust street the thc building occupied by IJ Albert D Mountain grocer gr c r In Inthis Inthis this tItle building at tIme the time of ot the there were vare Hubert Hollert and ad Dalton Mountain anti and Lizzie Mountain children of ot the tho proprietor o othe ot the store All 11 of o them have been ac accounted accounted counted for tar with the exception of the tIme girl whose whoso body Is Undoubtedly Und In the debris No o 1016 Lo n t street tre t was Vas oc cc occupied by Patrick a ns a gro grocer eec eer Quigley his hh wife throe children ren and an nn uncle were In the building wOman the explosion occurred Time Tho only cites orten In his family thus far tar Itc 1 ur r rare are arc end hid hii unco uno A At 1014 Lo bo Locust cust street George McClenny nice alto al o con eon conducted conducted ducted a n small grocery It H Is or 4 that the tho explosion Is thought to lIno Oc Occurred currell The Tho building was wa occupied o by Iy McClenny his wife n a clerk cl rk and md a 1 ser servant vant rant At t the time of t Mrs was vIsiting In W t Phila Philadelphia hila delphia and the others are thought to have havo been In the Where the greatest number probably perished hed 1 ii 11 at nt 1012 Locust street Here Mr r Wm Win Jones colored conducted a boarding boardinghouse house Ho lie had a score of boarders but tut the thc number In the time building nt ret the time cannot be learn ll l positively The Thc police say i y however hov ver verthal that thal It Is III that a dozen bodies will betaken frOm the de do debris dobris bris of this building At 1010 Locust street M 11 Kos wife anti and five children lived They Timey Th escaped with broken limbs and contusions but the tho building was completely wrecked In lit tho timo 1 home was a 0 boarder bonnier named Frank Schmidt Ho lie was WM seated nt lit n a third story window reading when the thc explosion occurred Schmidt was Wall blown through the time window and landed on top tOil of oC n R stable forty Corty feet from ruin the time wrecked buildings Ho lie escaped c win a 1 few ew bruises persons persona till nil told were vote taken to tho the two hospitals close at hand Of this number six are arc probably fatally Injured two are suffering from fractured limbs and burns while the time Injuries of at the time other othen consist of ot slight alight cuts from flying de di debris d bris Tho TIme block where tho tIme explosion occur occurred occurred occurred red Is In a section populated largely by colored colore persons The Tho building whore tile the t e explosion Is supposed to have havo oc occurred occurred currell Is IB In the center of the thc group of houses situated between Alder anti and streets small thoroughfares I running parallel with Tenth street In III Inthis this space on all the south side of ot Locust street the tho demolition Is complete while willa on the thc opposite side sille of ot the thc street not nol nota n a pane of ot slaw glare In time tho It dour doors and win windows windows dows remained Intact The Tho force of the explosion lon was wall terrific Huge plate pinto glass RialS window windows In l tho the building occupied by b tho time Western Savings Fund bank which IB Is I located moro more than a 0 block from where the disaster occurred were wel broken Into thousands of ot pieces while scarcely a n house within a 1 block escaped I broken windows or shattered doors The Tho scene at the wreck and at the tho hospitals this morning Is IK sickening Persons who had bad relatives and amid friends living In the wrecked wr structures are acre Handing about weeping and almost dIs dl dIstracted t traded hoping that dial their loved ones may have hare escaped a terrible death but fearful of o the worst Vorst The Thc work ork of ot searching li b i ho ruins In Is necessarily slow Io There i n a steady downpour of ot rain which makes the do de bris hard to handle The Time property properly loss will to about on ore which there ther Is II email Inlall Insurance |
