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* ZZv.‘-\ .$*Frightfat wd Fatal Explosion is an Ohio Town,By Western Au’d PreM to tin IImat/d*Aujance, Ohiop Feb. 1.—A frightful gasoline explosion occurred in F, M, Orr's stove and tin store, demolish in a the building and burying in its ruins an unknown number of people* Four persons have been extricated, four more arc known to have been Inside, Men are at work to rescue, if possible, those still alive,or at least to recover the bodies of the dead. The store was m a large new brick block in the middle of the town. It is rumored that a child turned the spigot of tbe gatolino tank and the ga* escaping ignhed by the fire in the stove. 'Several people were in the etoie and two families lived on the second and third floors. Beside those engulfed in the drftri*, many were more or less seriously injured* The force of the explosion wrenched and broke windows in other buildings in the entire square. jThe damage to tbe structure is estimated at $75,OGG* Further particulars later*Later.—In a few moments the flames arose from the ruins and the tire alarm was sounded* Such excitement prevailed thatthe fire gained so much headway as to nearly consume the ruins and burned two house*'before it was get under con* Lrol*Meanwhile the scene was harrowing in the extreme. It was known that mx or more people were killed or were then imprisoned in the wreck and would perish by tho fire* Men, women, and children, bareheaded, wringing their hands, relatives of the inmates of tho building destroyed, wandered about, in hopeless despair at their Inability to save tho unfortunates*F. M. Orr, Elmer Orr, hi* son, Mrs. Ilomer Highland and daughter, Mrs* Frank Evans and two children aged 2 and 4 months, were known tp have been in the building at the time of the explosion. These all perished-The w^men and children were in the second and third stories, and are sup-posed to have been killed by the tAlUnkf walls* Mr Orr and eon were both Sim ken to while confined under the debris,but burned to death. These bodies were all recovered at ten uVltx k, and were crushed or charred so as to bo hardly recvguixablo* *The only person in the Orr build Ing known to ha\e esnped was F, Evans, whose wife and children perished*Besides those killed, Uh* following are cut and bruised by flying brickh, etc*, or have broken limb*: Robert Joyce, Frank Evans, Frank Fries, J D Lewis, Jerry Miller,Maggie Miller, J* Im Baker. vTne explosion was caused from the fumes of gasoline, Tho child of Mr* Orr turned a faucet in the barrel aiul the fluid ran out on the floor* air Orr was mopping it up when the gas Arising therefrom ignited from the gas light.John Carry and Charles II. Hayden, of the Dupres and Benedicts minstrels, were blown out of Orria store through a plate glass window and carried clear across tho street, where they were nicked up badly injured, and carried to the hotel, bat will re* cover.The damage is estimated at from $00,000 to$f0tQ00,bm partially Insured. Business w«» entirely suspended in the city after the explosion*AlUaxcc, Ohio, Feb 2.—Workmen were busy, this morning, clearing the street oflbedetrii fiom yesterday's explosion and saving the property from the wrecked building*. The fire was extinguished, last night. No more bodies were found, nobody fs missing* No name will be added to the list of the killed and wounded. The remains of those crushed and cremated were encofiined, to-day, and conveyed to thelr former homes to nwaif in term ent, to-m orro w.
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Ogden Herald
Ogden, Utah, US
Sat, Feb 02, 1884
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