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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1905
Page
4
In Brockton on March 21 families searched for loved ones among the dead and injured after a catastrophic factory explosion and fire. Wives sought husbands, parents found children in the morgue as authorities and rescue teams labored amid ash and smoke.
Post woman describes Brockton disaster day after blast as families search hospitals and morgues for loved ones. Crowds kneel, pray, wail, and cling to any clue while responders move between charred remains and a morgue, yielding few identifications.
In a grim scene described with stark detail, rescuers sift through snow for victims as bodies and remains are recoved. The narrator recalls long rows of pine coffins and terrified mourners facing unimaginable injuries and suffering, while a stoic people endure grief and lament.
Levi Curtis of Hudson Flats mourns his unidentified wife, said to work in the campers room, after a fatal blaze. Curtis has been delirious. a physician calls his condition serious. About 25 people failed to identify George Burgess, a finisher who died under his machine. Burgess belonged to Knights of Pythias and other lodges. A pawn ticket found on unidentified body No 24 may aid identification.
The Boston Union to Aid Boston Cigarmakers' Union approved a resolution to donate 0.2 percent of its funds to the families of Brockton boiler explosion victims. The aid will be sent to the secretary of the Brockton Central Labor Union for distribution.
Brockton police explained why several employees did not report their escape after an explosion. Joseph Jones, a stitching room worker, escaped with only minor injuries and was walking in a confused state of mind.
A man, employed at a city shoe factory, worked through the day in a mechanical routine. Upon returning home he found his family in mourning, and only then did he recall the day’s events, realizing the tragedy that had occurred.
In Brockton on March 21 police extended the boiler pit search and recovered a watch a shoe heel and torn clothing later identified by Mrs. Rockwell as belonging to her husband. A chair fragment and human pelvis suggested Rockwell sat beside his boiler when the explosion occurred and that his death was instantaneous. Police conclude earlier live-saving report mixed him up with another employee.
Brockton March 21 Captain R B Grover president of the R B Grover Company, who has been ill for weeks, was told today of the terrible loss of life at his factory. He listened with grief to harrowing details and tears flowed as he learned the extent of the disaster and the fate of employees and their families. He had been spared from the news earlier. He later regained some strength and sat up for a time.
At George E. Keith & Co shoe factory in Brockton officials handed printed slips to 3000 workers asking what portion of today’s salary they would contribute to a widows and children fund for disaster victims. An officer said he expected about $3000 from the plant.
John Tylie a Wells Memorial building janitor learned yesterday that his brother Samuel A. Trylie foreman of the Grover factory finishing room in Brockton was killed in the citys boiler explosion.
Brockton March 21 A citizens relief committee for families of those who died in the KR B Grover Company factory disaster was formed by the Joint Shoe Council. A $600 starter donation was raised and a five member committee led by President Meade was named to organize fundraising with local papers and unions. Resolutions of sympathy will be prepared for publication and sent to each affected family.
March 21 account of Brockton officials approving sympathy resolutions, forming a joint committee to aid victims, ordering a public funeral, and allocating 1500 dollars for a burial lot in Melrose Cemetery with a monument for unidentified dead. The meeting honored Mayor Keith, Aldermen Kendrick Gilmore Eaton, and others, noting Alderman Monk injured in the explosion.
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