Boston Daily Globe (Newspaper) - January 16, 1919, Boston, Massachusetts 1919 MOODS CREAMERIES BUTTER ib 64c Creamery GHEE Full Cream 34c Evaporated ml I ft Can String Beans Salmon Peanut Butter 21 c Coffee 37c Can 17c Peas 19c Cocoa Red Seal Tea 55c Fancy Fresh 77c Selected Storage 52c TOMATOES Can LOOK FOR THE COW HEAD SIGN SOI Hanover 04 61 Compton 70 Sulem 480 00 Summer 1115 Chambers 701 32 218 778 Dudley 1068 Blue Hill 362 Blue Hill 494 164 Main South 403 Broadway 1041 377 Harvard 888 72 Everett East 12 Central Pleasant 105 Broadway 266 144 VIEW QF END LOOKING TO WARP NAVY YARD FROM COMMERCIAL ST ENGINEERS BODY IN ENGINE HOUSE RUINS George Layhe Crushed by Piano and Wreckage Firemen Show Heroism in Saving Trapped Comrades Heroic work was done by members of Fire Department yesterday every minute at the risk of their when chopped and dug in the of Engine 31 quarters in an effort to take out alive comrades who had been buried the interior of the building collapsed as a Jesuit of the ac cident at the molasses tank on Com LAYHE With the building in such condition that every time a man stepped across dt it shook as If about to the Third Engineer George Layhe of cuers for a moment think of j 31 widely in East to search the entire One of the members of the company remembered that Layhe had said a few minutes before the disaster that he was going to bed and should be called about 4 o This information led tho rescuers toward the engineers and after hours of every bit of which was done In the most careful body was found at the foot of the sliding pole pinned down by big with the piano and pool table across the When it was learned that the body was still a call was sent for a doctor and one of the Army surgeons plowing through the mud and but he said that no signs of life The while they believed wanted to make sure that no means of saving life were neglected and carried the body It was placed in an ambulance and sent to a The which was tied up in its but a few feet from the was not but the coating of molasses that covered it will mean many days of hard work on the part of the crew before it is all The building was torn from its foundation and lifted about 10 feet toward the water The crew of the boat was so depleted that It was move but early in the Chief Mc arranged for a detail and the boat was sent over to the slip of Engine in East Chief Engineer O who was having a day as soon as he of the disaster hurried to the boat and reported for Engineers OBrien and who were covering Engine 44 when the ex plosion with hoseman Gillispie and both of whom are in jured but still on constituted tho regular crew tlut Lieut Williams had for duty last None of the members of the crew con d tell much of a story about the other than to say that a rum bling sound was heard and the thing they knew was when the build IeM into the air and start toward the Deputy Chief John Tabor last snirt building was In such a condition that It Is liable to fall at any time LAYHE LEAVES HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN but worked bravely to the trapped whose voices could be heard cheering them It was nearly four hours after the dis aster that the work of these men was and then it was when the body third engineer on the was taken from under heavy held down by thi piano and pool still but with life ex City Employe Rescued With the exception of the removal of John city employe who was eating lunch in the engine the rescuers did not have much trouble In getting out the men trapped under the falling was pinned in such a a big section of tho tank in front of that it was necessary for the to burn a hole In the tank with an acetylene torch before they could reach the building and start cutting the Lieut John who was in charge of tho had just left the station and reached Hanover and Commercial sts on his way to dinner when he heard a saw a cloud of as he thought covering tho lire station and the entire He heard cries at the same time and ran but could not get near the entrance to the station owing to the flood of molasses that rolled toward as well as tho Hying He Immediately rushed to a Naval station and a launch was put out for him and he was taken around the end of the pior and landed on his As he climbed over the side of the he met and Gregorio limping down the and in reply to his questions they said that the building had They escaped by jumping from windows as the build ing to but the other mem bers of tho crew were trapped In the Lieut rushed to the building and saw that the entire interior hail He could also hear groans and cries from tho men trapped He climbed through a but Ing to the weight of tho timbers and ether objects pinning the men he was unable to assist them where ho lived with his wife and three children at 401 Saratoga He had an excellent record in the Fire Engineer from what his wife learned last was standing in the doorway of the quarters when the ex plosion occurred and was buried by the He was born in Fort N 37 and 19 years ago came to East Ho turned his hand to marine engineering and eight years ago was appointed to the Fire De and assigned to Engine Besides his Mrs Elizabeth A Layhe and three aged 11 aged and aged Mr Layho leaves two brothers and The funeral will take place He a member of the Bos ton Relief OWEN LIVES IN Owen one of the employe of the city of Boston attached to the North End city who was injured in the explosion yesterday lives with his wife and four daughters at 55 Tremont Men Taken From Ruins He then rushed out to the corner of the building and tried to signal for some body on the street to sound the fire nuls were answered and h returned to tho building and with the help of Gillin His signals were answered and he returned to the building and with tho help of Gillisple and succeeded In getting a couple of the men When he left the station for S the men on duty were engineers Browning and and Gillisple and Greg When the additional rescuers arrived I in answer to the Browning and Connors were pulled out SCENES OF ANGUISH AT RELIEF STATION Anxious Visitors Clamor for Names of Relatives The horror of yesterdays accident at the North Enrt molasses tank was em at the Haymarket Square Re lief where for more than an hour the ambulances brought in groan struggling covered from head to eyes and ears and in some with black many of them also suffering from The organization of the relief station was strained to its but deserves great credit for the expedition and effi ciency with which it took care of the Every room on the two floors of the building was filled with the and nurses and their clothes covered with molasses hur ried pushing equally sticky stretchers while in the rooms they cut off the clothes which were too satu rated with the heavy liquid to be re clinging about the bodies oi the The molasses itself was removed from the mens bodies by warm and the men made comfortable between clean OWEN GORMAN was born in Ireland and has lived in Charlestown for the past 30 For the past eight years he has been in the employ of the city of Word was received by Mrs Gorman last night that her husband was taken to the Relief where he was being treated for burns on his face and WILLIAM DUFFY 21 YEARS CITY EMPLOYE William who was was employed by the city as ti stone cutter for 21 years and lived at 07 Brighton West He was born in the north End 58 years ago and about with Driscoll and McDermott sent to ago was married to Miss Ellen tho could not be lo also of tho North but from under the rear He was a past chief ranger In of thi building led the rescuers to be liove that he When an attempt was made to get to it learned that the big steel section of tho tank in the and Lieut Dan Hurley and Andy Larson of Rescue Company 1 rushed for their obtained the Court of anil for many years prominent In the Literary He is by his wife and aged ID A Leo who died four years ago at tho age of was for merly on tho editorial staff of a Boston ting torch and started to work on tho The which will be take place at 4fi Allen North It took but a short time for them to Saturday Requiem high mass burn out a laiKo enough for a man will bo celebrated In St Josephs to and Larson went in with an Ho had but littlo cutting to do be foro he reached the the as of other who went through the he pulled prisoner and it was then that the learned that tho man rescued was John Barry and not Barry was rusher to a while the under the dlr Hlon of Chambers Burial will boin New Calvary i and signals to Layhe failed to get any response and the men started CURRAN AND FLYNN OF CAMBRIDGE BOTH INJURED lived at at old the Weeks I FM of fh Ivan i it at the Hay Suite j been employed 4 He Is 38 years old and lives at 9 Winter Kant Cam with his wife and two j teamster in the employ if the McDon Relief Station Treats 42 About 42 victims were treated at the Relief So many of them came at once that no attempt was made to make records until all tho sufferers had been made and in the meantime some who were but little in jured left the hospital without leaving their so that a complete listof treated yesterday was not last remained there last while six more were sent to the City One John died at the Relief Three other men were brought upon were found be and their bodies immediately sent to the North As soon as the news of tho disaster spread through the the Relief Sta tion was besieged by a crowd of anxious relatives of those who were employed at or near the Some of these remained throughout the waiting for definite news whether their or or boy was at the Relief and long into the night these relatives continued to come to the station for One of these groups was in search of Mary 10 years whose was taken to the Re lief Station during the afternoon and later taken to the City No Mary was to be although It was understood that she had been taken lo the Relief Station with her and the parents passed an anxious night looking for A touch of comedy was supplied by the adventures of Albert 5 years at first thought to be the youngest victim of tho He was walk ing along Commercial when he was suddenly drenched by a flood of mo because of his small overwhelmed him and carried him off his Ho was taken to the Relief supposedly seriously but when the molasses was removed young Albert was found to be none the worse for his sticky bath and was al lowed to go home after he had had his Heard Then Crash His answered as well as any of those Injured tho ques tion of what He wis walking along the he when first there was a low not a sharp but a Then iamo the shower of molasses and the noise of and as he looked toward the water front he says he saw two or three of the houses fall Charles of 74 F MARTIN CLOUGHERTY AWOKE IN SEA OF STICKY MOLASSES Thought I Was Says Survivor of North End Whose Mother Was Killed A feature of the molasses plant dis so remarkable as to take upon itself a tinse of the was the escape from death of Stephen and Theresa Clougherty and Bartholo mew all of whom lived in the house at Copps Hill terrace and Com st which was drawn into the latter smashed against the Ele structure and Mrs mother of three of the was She was OS years of age and not in robust Martin who is widely known among sporting having been an amateur boxer and referee and lat terly one of the officers of the Pen and Pencil told his story to a Globe reporter last night at the Quincy where Dr James DuVally had ordered him to bed after having dressed a score of contusions and Everywhere I was in bed on the third floor of my he when I heard a deep J was asleep and the rumble did not wake me The first impression I had that some thing unusual had happened was when I awoke in several feet of It didnt dawn on me that it was molasses I was I thought I was A pile of wreckage was holding me and a little wny from me I saw mv I struggled out from under the wreckage and pulled my sister toward me and helped her onto a I then began to look for my It seemed as if the house had split In two when it hit the Elevated struc ture and I was in one side and my people in the I couldnt find my shouted for her and yelled for those who had come along the street to find But I couldnt locate It seemed an hour while I was trying to find But soon someone told me that she had been found and that she was Joe who lives came through the sea of molasses toward us and he helped me and my sister to Robert Burnetts I sent my sister to her cousins and Frank Crow ley took me Robert Green of the Columbus Savings Bank came along just as I was out of the mess and I told him that all the money I and a number of Liberty were in a tin Money and Bonds Saved Ho found the box and the bonds and money He also helped wonder fully in getting other people from the I saw some sparks and smoke as I lay in the but whether this came from the contact of the house with the third rail on the Elevated structure or from the explosion I could not All I remember was a smothering sen probably as I was flying through the then I thought I was overboard What had really happened didnt to me at all for a long one of the other occupants of the was found some time later walking along Hanover covered will molasses from head to He seemed to be dazed by ils Clougherty at the City little the worse for his Miss Clougherty was highly nervous last night and under the care of a It Is feared that Martin resident of the may be LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED Prom the First Corduroy Robes The Ideal Cold Weather Negligee We have three lots from which to They are pretty as well as durable and very popular this The Robe illustrated is of English warm but not heavy lined throughout with novelty figured tissue large collar and patch pockets cross girdle effect in back Copen hagen blue and wistaria the price is only A Is o corduroy lounging robes in breakfast with pockets and fancy lin ing and pointed collar col Copenhagen and Tailored corduroy with deep setin fancy pockets and cord very full skirt in most of the de sirable T SLATTERY OPPOSITE BOSTON COMMON was driving a horse and wagon on Commercial st at the time of the The horse was blown com out of the shafts and what was of the wagon is now a heap of by the road but escaped with a mo lasses bath and a broken Russell McLean of 42 Jeanette was walking along the street near the when the force of the explosion threw him violently against the brick causing serious bruises on one arm and one his face and one He like every one else In the covered with the After treatment at the Relief he was able to go home PINNED DOWN BY HEAVY STEEL GIRDERS aged foreman ct the Bay State Electric who injured In the lives with his wife and two children at 147 Saratoga East He is widely known in that where un til four years ago he had a laundry When the explosion occurred Mc Mullen was working in the yard of the express and the force of it tossed him several He was pinned tj the ground by the flying later to be engulfed by the sea of His body was weighed down by a steel girder which lay heavily his just above the McMullen struggled in vain to himself as the molasses rushed upon His head was just protruding Irom the fluid when he was At the Haymarket Relief Station late last night it was said that McMullen had suffered from a fracture of both legs and a severe He also swal lowed considerable He is ex to Jim as he is known In Bast has been connected with the express company for four years Mr McMullen is a member of Lee EXPLOSION COST TONY SORDILLO HIS DINNER Tony Sordillo of 2 Copps Hill terrace lost his dinner by tho Tony had Just entered his home for his din ner when he says he heard a boom as if from a gun and felt his house He ran into the street and saw a num ber of persons running away from Com through the North End Park and up Copps Hill These persons were all covered with molasses and many of them were shout said I saw Mr house under the Elevated Tony It was all smashed up and 1 began to holler to some Bailors t come and get the people One man was standing up at the top of the park and a woman was trying to wash molasses from He was Pretty soon an ambulance cahie along and took him to the I couldnt find my brothers and 1 went looking for but I couldnt get the molasses filled all the Anyway a little later I learned they were at the ALL THAT IS LEFT OF MRS ELIZABETH HOUSE WHICH STOOD 100 FEET FROM SCENE OF EXPLOSION MRS OBRIEN WAS RESCUED FROM THIS DESPITE ITS a blacksmith at the City Paving William 187 Webber East Michael 70 Beri nard em ploye Public Works De LIST OF INJURED Thomas mar 257 Main Frank 28 Hanson John mar 49 Worcester Charles 87 Dacia John 28 i Auburn Albert 552 Catherine 521 Commercial James 17 Davis Bartholomew 6 Copps Hill Samuel 4 Anderson Fred mar 51 Decatur John 1A Martin 6 Copps Hill James 9 Pine Patrick Engine 591 Walk Hill William en gine Market Ralph 120 Train Charles Patrick 64 Fayette Samuel 68 Decatur John 9 Winter James 147 Saratoga East Stephen 6 Copps Hill Peter 52 Kernard John 41 Law rence j Owen 55 Tre mont I John of 2 Nawn j Anthony 115 Charter Dennis 52 Wood worth East James 187 Charles Isaac 30 Winthrop Patrick 61 Walnut Mrs Charles 32 Cobden 1 Prospect John no Mrs Mary 3 Wall Edward 36 River Miss Elma 75 Clark Joseph y Pine Antonio 115 Char ter I John 17 Kingston Peter Russell 42 Jean nette Charles 74 F South Paul 109 Charles William 199 Port land Daniel 74 West Cottage West Walter 36 Myrtle Joseph Mrs Elizabeth fractured 521 Commer cial FINDS LIBERTY BONDS AND MONEY IN RUINS While searching the ruins caused by the explosion of the great molasses tank yesterday afternoon fireman Hugh Goodfellow found a tin box contain ing more than worth of Liberty a bankbook and FIREMAN HUGH He turned the box and contents over to Robert a business man and property owner of tho North End whom he knew He then continued his Fireman Goodfellow has been a mem ber of the Fire Department about 15 He was a member of Engine Com pany Engine Engine and when Engine Company was organized he was transferred to the new near his Fireman Goodfellow lives with his Margaret two Marga ret and and a James at 1 Cedar The latter served at the Mexican bor der and was later In the United States Naval Reserve serving at Chat ham as a boatswains He was discharged Dec PATRICK Of Engine at Belief Pinned Under L Lives While Elevated employes were cleaning up the wreckage of the houses under the damaged trestle with enormous someone with an acute sense of shouted that there was a kitten caught under neath the Clougherty Activities were suspended as far as the big crane was concerned and sev eral of the workmen hurried to give what assistance they could to the buried An indistinct and plaintive meow could be heard at one The men removed the wreckage and finally lifted kitty out little the worse for her imprisonment of several COUNCILOR MCAULIFFE OF LYNN NOT A VICTIM Jan several hours to day city officials and hundreds of Lynn residents believed that Councilor John McAuliffe was one if the victims of the Boston A telephone message from Boston re at the clubhouse of Lynn of Elks included among the As he was known to be in Boston the story was The Councilor returned late to night and ho immediately started to trace the mes As he is an employe of the Bay State Street Railway it was assumed that he might have been near the freight ter and his unusually long absence from the city seemed to give tion to the fake Official Police Report of North End Disaster The police report of the explosion follows At an alarm from box 1234 followed by a third alarm at and by an alarm from box 1211 at summoned the Fire Depart ment to an explosion caused by a volume of estimated at 000 which wrecked the vat and caused damage to the following buildings The entire plant of the Paving Di vision the entire engine house of Fireboat 31 portion of bathhouse and a large portion of the building oc by the Bay State Electric Ex press the brick 6 Copps Hill owned and occupied by Martin Clougherty and mother also the plant of the United States Industrial Alcohol Company of Cambridge and the en tire block of houses Charter st and Copps Hill terrace on Com st was more or less There were 35 injured taken to the Relief Hospital in ambulances of the Police United States Army and Red Cross ambulances and various automobiles and other vehicles which were pressed into Of one has died and sot in the 35 went home slightly The dead man is John 67 of 23 Fulda Special Announcement liirt Sale NOW ON Thousands of the best looking and most serviceable Shirts ever offered in a SALE will greet our patrons when this store opens Every kind of a new Shirt is included in this Need We Urge Thinking Men Further SCHOOL I I i OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS
