| Show SCORES fiill IIII 10 01 dl HORRIBLE ACCIDENT IN A MASSA SHOE FACTORY bu id ng collapses and death by fira fire and suffocation is the fate of em boyes who were unable to escape at least sixty persons were killed early monday by the explosion of a boiler in a large shoe manufacturing establishment in brockton mass conducted by the R B grover corn com pany the explosion was immediately immediately Immediate Ty fol lowed by a flash of flame which con fumed the factory a long four story structure as it if it were a house of cards and incinerated an unknown rl number of men and women who were unable to extricate themselves from a mass of tangled wreckage formed by the terrific upheaval in the boiler room more than fifty of the employed emp loyes in the building were maimed burned or bruised by the time they reached safe ground some had jumped from the roof some from windows and oth ers had been injured in the mad rush to escape from the doomed factory which from all parts emitted the heat of an inferno driving back the band of heroic rescuers who in a few moments had performed gallant service the fire extended from the factory to seven other buildings in the vicin tty ity and destroyed them the total financial loss is estimated at it may never be known just how many persons perished in the wreck age no one h knows howg exactly how many per ons were in the factory the n iu ber has been estimated etti mated at 40 0 but treasurer charles 0 emerson said that he doubted whether there were so many at work two hundred and fifty survivors have been accounted for and the remains of fifty bodies have been recovered from the ruins fragments of human frames which possibly might belong to bodies other than those enumerated have also been found few of the remains have been identified the head in nearly every instance is missing and except in rare instances it was impossible even to distinguish the sex |
