People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — BUT ONE MAN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

BUT ONE MAN KILLED.

Five Other* Burned In Two Explosions. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 22. —A terrific explosion occurred yesterday on the second floor of the four-story brick building owned and initially occupied by English & Mersick, makers and dealers in carriage hardware. The explosion was followed by an almost instantaneous breaking out of fire, and in a few seconds the three upper stories were in flames. . One person, Joseph C. Hauser, a machinist, was killed outright. The injured: Janies T. McNeill, machinist, badly cut about head and shoulders. Frank C. Richter, laborer, bruised and cut. Frank P. Pglegar, burned; will recover. Alexis Gray, foreman, badly burned about bead and upper portion of body. The escape from death of the forty persons employed in the building was miraculous, and it is possible that the bodies of several boys may be found in the ruins.