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Alexander Ramsey Falls Asleep MINNESOTA > \> •*v * §}& **'"? .« pJKS*gESF - '"Sis''-1 - . > fi$$&$ «*3! -" ^JiJTH! '• <*' ? » « • <- «.' .,,-"- , J AND FRIDAY; COOLER FRIDAY •y~ ipAr -* FULL OF YEARS ANDfHONORS ! ALEXANDER RAMSEY FALLS ASLEEP The End Came to Him Peacefully Last Evening „ at the Family Residence in '* • St. Paul. Alh'the Great State of Minnesota, With. Which His Name Is Insepar­ ably Connected, Mourns for Him as for a Father—As Governor of the Territory and of the New-State He Left a Lasting Imprint Upon the life of Minnesota—In the United States Senate and the Northwestern Star Oil Plant Explosion the DEAD 0E UNACCOUNTED FOB Presidential Cabinet He Gave His Services to the Nation as a W. H. DAVIS, president, 2201 Hennepin Boulevard. 1 ' Wotfct Minneapolis Disaster Since the C. H. DURRIN, general manager, 1016 Fourteenth avenue 8E. Whole, t\* STANISLAUS W. MITCHELL, cashier, 802 Fourth street SE. Mill Horror in 1878. JACOB DOMM, bookkeeper, 2432 Harriet avenue. MISS CAROLINE A. RECORD, bookkeeper, 126 W Fifteenth street. HAROLD C. COLBORN, clerk, 711 Fifth avenue SE. A CONDENSED BIOGRAPHY MISS ELLA M. ROUNDY, stenographer, 716 University avenue SE. Shortly Before EToon the Huge Oil.Tanks Burst Out in an Irresistible DAVID DACEY, foreman, 204 Fourth avenue SE. PERSONAL. JOHN SPOTANSKE, laborer, 401 Fourth street SE. Born at Harrisburg, Penn., Sept. 8, 1815. Sheet of Fatal Flame—The Plant Destroyed as Though by Vol­ JOSEPH LABRECHE, laborer* 52 Central avenue. Entered Lafayette College, 1833. canic .Visitation—Fierce*Fire Follows and It Is Feared That None Admitted to the bar, 1839. THE INJURED Married, Sept. 10, 1845, to Anna Earl Jenka. .' of the Missing Has Escaped Alive—Survivors Horribly Burned— Arrived In Minnesota. May 27, 1849. Cauae^of. tfee Disaster a Mystery. ~. , ^ WILL LARSON, laborer, 512 River Bank SE; badly burned about face and Three children, of whom two sons died In infancy. t hands, leg bruised. Taken to city hospital. Mrs. Ramsey died, Nov. 29, 1884. CHARLES AARONSON, employe of American Bridge,Jbempany; leg badly Death of Governor Ramsey, April 22, 1903. bruised. $J Survived by one daughter, Mrs. Marlon Furness, St. Paul. JOE McGINTY, 908 Third avenue N,.supposed to have escaped and walked GOVERNOR ALEXANDER RAMSEY. home. IN 1861. The most appalling disaster in Minneapolis Since the great mill explosion in POLITICAL. 1878, occurred shortly before noon to-day, at Sixth avenue SB and the river bank, WALTER E. SCOTT, St Paul, face and hands burned, rib broken. Taken Chief clerk Pennsylvania legislature, 1841. to city hospital. Sioux, in 1851, 40,000,000 acres of land when the plant of the Northwestern Star Oil company blew up. Whig nominee for congress, 1842; served one term. were thrown open to the settler. In the JOSEPH DRONICK, 401 Seventh street SE; burned about face and hands. Chairman Whig state committee, Pennsylvania, 1848. fall of the same year, he visited the Red Of the twenty or more employes in the bhildlng only two are known to have Taken to city hospital. First territorial governor of Minnesota, 1849-1853. River colony and made, at Pembina, -. a escaped injury, while six were taken out frightfully burned. E. J. LINK, 704 Third avenue SE; burned about face and hands. Taken to Mayor of St. Paul, 1855. treaty with the northern Chippewas, for city hospital. .Eleven are unaccounted for and are supposed to be buried beneath the smok­ Republican candidate for governor, 1857. the cession by them of thirty miles on JOSEPH LIVINGSTON, Nicollet Island; burned about face and hands. each side of the Red river. This"'treaty Taken to his home. Elected second governor of state, 1859, and re-elected, 1861. was not ratified by the senate, but in 1863 ing debris. " h',|j "•''•'.v..'.'..'.-.;•- "•'''.'..'"- United States senator, 1863-1875. Governor Ramsey, then senator, made The explosion occurred at an hour when the entire force of employes were at Secretary of war in Hayes' cabinet, 1879-1881. another treaty, ~ accomplishing the in­ THE UNINJURED Member of Edmunds Utah commission, 1882-1886. tended results. work. .^. '" -•• '.,•;. Some of the extracts from his early Without a*ajoment's warning the7large tank of oU In.the east end''of the build­ JACOB JACOBSON, foreman, 1809 Eleventh avenue S. messages, predicting the future growth of ing exploded with terrific force. The four outside walls of the building were leveled THOMAS CRAIG, engineer, 301 Fourth street SE. the territory seem almost prophetic. ZERAH C. COLBORN, salesman, 711 Fifth avenue SE. Minnesota mourns to-day for Alexander Ramsey. : and an instant later the ruins were swathed in angry, roaring flames. Six men 1 The success of the treaty of 1851' with Full of years and honors, Minnesota's grand old man sank peacefully to his the Sioux at Traverse des Sioux which succeeded in escaping from the building Immediately after the explosion, while the final rest yesterday evening, shortly after 6 o'clock. He had been In feeble health the governor, assisted by Luke Lea: ne­ the heat was so intense that it is doubtful if the dead can be removed from the for several -weeks, but the end was sudden and unxpected, due to heart failure. It gotiated early in his.career, stamped him rest of the employes were buried beneath the ruins. .ruins until a late hour this afternoon. as a man of affairs and if he had ac­ Immediately after the explosion a fire alarm was turned in and was answered came in the home which had been his for thirty years, 265 Exchange street, St. Paul.- THE CAUSE WRAPPED IN 'MYSTERY. ^y Governor Ramsey's death' breaks the link between the present and the history complished nothing else of importance by nearly all the companies in the city. When the firemen arrived the oil was during his incumbency as governor of the The cause of the.explosion is a mystery and probably never will be explained. ' - of Minnesota's first struggles as a commonwealth. Territorial days and Indian territory that act would of itself entitle burning fiercely, whfle huge columns of dense black smoke mounted up unbroken treaties seemed but yesterday when Alexander Ramsey, the central figure of those The office force* was at work as-usual, as were all the rest of the employes, Sev- >, him to the thanks of the millions who how to the height of several hundred feet. : Water was of little use in fighting, the times, still drove about the streets that saw his first activities. The state which till the soil in the great northwest. He eral tanks of oil were being unloaded Into the building, when suddenly there was obeyed him in territorial days, which honored him as its "war governor," and sent and his associates made possible the early flames, as the oil burned freely, arid the fire-department devoted its energies to the a terrific explosion. The walls of the building fell as if by an earthquake. Several f \ him for twelve years to represent it in the senate at Washington, will see that kind­ development of the agricultural resources saving of adjoining fundings. ' V- smaller explosions followed in quick succession, but the first one had so completely % ly, bronzed face no more. Ramsey county, named fifty years ago for the young of this great commonwealth anid the ? ,1^ AID TO THE INJURED. wrecked the building that they did no damage other than to add to the fury of the ? governor, will pay him now the last honors earth can give. building up of the cities and towns which flames which had raged from the first. "*-« followed the incoming of the pioneer set­ Chief Canterbury at once dispatched one of the hose wagons to the city hospi­ Governor Kamsey was 89 years old. An active life, full of hard work and re­ tlers. In his first message to the terri­ Several persons employed in the vicinity of the plant were eye witnesses to * sponsibility, never shook his sturdy constitution, and only the inexorable hand of torial legislature he suggested a petition, tal with Will Larson, Walter Scott And- Joseph Dromick, who were badly burned, the explosion, but noife of-them could explain how it occurred. Frank Carron, £ -" time brought on the weakness and the final end yesterday. asking congress to extend the pre­ and had received some painful btfiises and broken bones. The South Side patrol foreman at one of • the American Bridge company's shops .opposite the oil com- 'j.' The history of Minnesota's early days is almost a biography of Alexander Ram­ emption laws to the unsurveyed lands and pany's plant, was standing at an open window looking directly at the building <f ' sey. He came here in 1849, strong in the prime of his young manhood, appointed to limit the sales of public lands to actual wagon took. |5d*ard Xiink to the.ttospital and James Livingstone to his home on when the explosion occurred. He told the story of the explosion as follows: > Ji, l by Zachary Taylor as first governor of the new territory. He entered into pioneer settlers, both of which requests were fa­ Nicollet Islarot. \ Foseph McGinty -wits also injured, but went home unattended.- /"<•£ :; : life, became the trusted friend of the Indian tribes, and their mediator with the vorably replied to by the national,legis­ v/_-*.$ * . i •• • - .•••,.-. '•••• /^PK ' ,"-^> Vi'V • SVORY.OF AN EYE WITNESS.. .• •J.^pJ$j M4£$MI&r ^ lature and..'the eylL .of non-residence land Thoma4;0<$n Agf ^engineer 'at the 'plant^left a minute before the explosion :oc- 0£ **EyerythijWB wjas qu^et when suddenly there was a; loud noise and t^ walls of I "Great Father." His hold on the people was strong, and when Minnesota became a curred j itftZW^idj'/tfT » block away' when hjp heard.a souhd*yJQf the.
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