| Show BY A BURSTED BOILER Fatal Catastrophe sxiiil Wreck of a Texas Hotel GALVKSTON May 8A terrible catastrophe catas-trophe occurred in this city at halfpast 7 oclock this morning One of the boilers boil-ers of the Tremont hotel exploded instantly in-stantly killing a number of persons and wounding several others and doing great damage to the hotel and neighboring property The killed are as follows Several children Lawrence Carr furnace man Clara Miller white woman and Anderson Jones colored The concussion concus-sion from the explosion was appalling The fremont House is a large fivestory brick structure with 130 feet frontage on Tremont street and about the same depth on Church street The explosisn shook the building with such terrible force that the guests thought A TUE1ICJCDOUS EARTHQUAKE Had occurred and ran panicstricken about the hallways The scene of the calamity presents a dreary spectacle and not one brick of the boilerhouse remains upon another but in its place scattered about for half a square lies the debris of the building |
