Groom name: Charle F. Amann
Groom age: 22 years
Groom birth year: 1884
Groom birth place: Jackson
Bride name: Iva I. Collins
Bride age: 23 years
Bride birth year: 1883
Bride birth place: Dundee
Marriage date: 02 May 1906
Marriage place: Jackson, Jackson, Michigan
Father of groom name: Charles
Mother of groom name: Rehfus
Father of bride name: Thomas
Mother of bride name: Suydan
Film number: 2342674
Digital GS number: 4208699
Image number: 320
Reference number: v 3 p 31 rn 147
Collection: Michigan Marriages 1868-1925
Peek Thru Time 18 Mar 2015
The sound of wailing sirens began in the northwest part of the city, but it wasn't long before the news of Jackson's biggest industrial catastrophe and its most heroic rescue effort spread worldwide.
It was 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1956, when a reinforced steel wall buckled without warning at the site of a $2.8 million building being constructed for Consumers Power Co., now Consumers Energy, on Parnall Road.
Ten men died and 15 others were injured in the tragedy that occurred 54 years ago Sunday.
"I remember there was all this rebar hanging down and part of the building still standing," said Larry Binschus, 68, of Jackson. "It looked just like that building in Oklahoma City that was bombed. It looked like a bomb had gone off here, too."
Binschus' father, Claude, 36, a sheet metal worker, was one of the 40 workers at the site that day. It was just his second day on the job.
Binschus, then 14, and his 12-year-old brother, Jerry, rushed with their mother, Ada Galloway, and their father's then-wife, Mary, to the site.
"They were still getting some men out alive when we got there," Binschus said. "We had some hope at first."
It was gone by the time Claude Binschus was found dead early on Friday morning, buried in the rubble where he was working. Besides his sons, he left three children under the age of 4 and a wife pregnant with their fourth child.
Also killed were Gerald W. Eley, 50, Ray Claucherty, 52, Roy J. Gardner, 25, and Charles Amann, 72, all of Jackson; George Berry, 68, of Michigan Center; F. Russell Baker, 39, of Spring Arbor; William Rose, 37, of Rives Junction; William R. Bingham, 37, of Hillsdale; and Gale Marble, 49, of Flint.
Groom age: 22 years
Groom birth year: 1884
Groom birth place: Jackson
Bride name: Iva I. Collins
Bride age: 23 years
Bride birth year: 1883
Bride birth place: Dundee
Marriage date: 02 May 1906
Marriage place: Jackson, Jackson, Michigan
Father of groom name: Charles
Mother of groom name: Rehfus
Father of bride name: Thomas
Mother of bride name: Suydan
Film number: 2342674
Digital GS number: 4208699
Image number: 320
Reference number: v 3 p 31 rn 147
Collection: Michigan Marriages 1868-1925
Peek Thru Time 18 Mar 2015
The sound of wailing sirens began in the northwest part of the city, but it wasn't long before the news of Jackson's biggest industrial catastrophe and its most heroic rescue effort spread worldwide.
It was 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1956, when a reinforced steel wall buckled without warning at the site of a $2.8 million building being constructed for Consumers Power Co., now Consumers Energy, on Parnall Road.
Ten men died and 15 others were injured in the tragedy that occurred 54 years ago Sunday.
"I remember there was all this rebar hanging down and part of the building still standing," said Larry Binschus, 68, of Jackson. "It looked just like that building in Oklahoma City that was bombed. It looked like a bomb had gone off here, too."
Binschus' father, Claude, 36, a sheet metal worker, was one of the 40 workers at the site that day. It was just his second day on the job.
Binschus, then 14, and his 12-year-old brother, Jerry, rushed with their mother, Ada Galloway, and their father's then-wife, Mary, to the site.
"They were still getting some men out alive when we got there," Binschus said. "We had some hope at first."
It was gone by the time Claude Binschus was found dead early on Friday morning, buried in the rubble where he was working. Besides his sons, he left three children under the age of 4 and a wife pregnant with their fourth child.
Also killed were Gerald W. Eley, 50, Ray Claucherty, 52, Roy J. Gardner, 25, and Charles Amann, 72, all of Jackson; George Berry, 68, of Michigan Center; F. Russell Baker, 39, of Spring Arbor; William Rose, 37, of Rives Junction; William R. Bingham, 37, of Hillsdale; and Gale Marble, 49, of Flint.
Groom name: Charle F. Amann
Groom age: 22 years
Groom birth year: 1884
Groom birth place: Jackson
Bride name: Iva I. Collins
Bride age: 23 years
Bride birth year: 1883
Bride birth place: Dundee
Marriage date: 02 May 1906
Marriage place: Jackson, Jackson, Michigan
Father of groom name: Charles
Mother of groom name: Rehfus
Father of bride name: Thomas
Mother of bride name: Suydan
Film number: 2342674
Digital GS number: 4208699
Image number: 320
Reference number: v 3 p 31 rn 147
Collection: Michigan Marriages 1868-1925
Peek Thru Time 18 Mar 2015
The sound of wailing sirens began in the northwest part of the city, but it wasn't long before the news of Jackson's biggest industrial catastrophe and its most heroic rescue effort spread worldwide.
It was 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1956, when a reinforced steel wall buckled without warning at the site of a $2.8 million building being constructed for Consumers Power Co., now Consumers Energy, on Parnall Road.
Ten men died and 15 others were injured in the tragedy that occurred 54 years ago Sunday.
"I remember there was all this rebar hanging down and part of the building still standing," said Larry Binschus, 68, of Jackson. "It looked just like that building in Oklahoma City that was bombed. It looked like a bomb had gone off here, too."
Binschus' father, Claude, 36, a sheet metal worker, was one of the 40 workers at the site that day. It was just his second day on the job.
Binschus, then 14, and his 12-year-old brother, Jerry, rushed with their mother, Ada Galloway, and their father's then-wife, Mary, to the site.
"They were still getting some men out alive when we got there," Binschus said. "We had some hope at first."
It was gone by the time Claude Binschus was found dead early on Friday morning, buried in the rubble where he was working. Besides his sons, he left three children under the age of 4 and a wife pregnant with their fourth child.
Also killed were Gerald W. Eley, 50, Ray Claucherty, 52, Roy J. Gardner, 25, and Charles Amann, 72, all of Jackson; George Berry, 68, of Michigan Center; F. Russell Baker, 39, of Spring Arbor; William Rose, 37, of Rives Junction; William R. Bingham, 37, of Hillsdale; and Gale Marble, 49, of Flint.
Groom age: 22 years
Groom birth year: 1884
Groom birth place: Jackson
Bride name: Iva I. Collins
Bride age: 23 years
Bride birth year: 1883
Bride birth place: Dundee
Marriage date: 02 May 1906
Marriage place: Jackson, Jackson, Michigan
Father of groom name: Charles
Mother of groom name: Rehfus
Father of bride name: Thomas
Mother of bride name: Suydan
Film number: 2342674
Digital GS number: 4208699
Image number: 320
Reference number: v 3 p 31 rn 147
Collection: Michigan Marriages 1868-1925
Peek Thru Time 18 Mar 2015
The sound of wailing sirens began in the northwest part of the city, but it wasn't long before the news of Jackson's biggest industrial catastrophe and its most heroic rescue effort spread worldwide.
It was 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1956, when a reinforced steel wall buckled without warning at the site of a $2.8 million building being constructed for Consumers Power Co., now Consumers Energy, on Parnall Road.
Ten men died and 15 others were injured in the tragedy that occurred 54 years ago Sunday.
"I remember there was all this rebar hanging down and part of the building still standing," said Larry Binschus, 68, of Jackson. "It looked just like that building in Oklahoma City that was bombed. It looked like a bomb had gone off here, too."
Binschus' father, Claude, 36, a sheet metal worker, was one of the 40 workers at the site that day. It was just his second day on the job.
Binschus, then 14, and his 12-year-old brother, Jerry, rushed with their mother, Ada Galloway, and their father's then-wife, Mary, to the site.
"They were still getting some men out alive when we got there," Binschus said. "We had some hope at first."
It was gone by the time Claude Binschus was found dead early on Friday morning, buried in the rubble where he was working. Besides his sons, he left three children under the age of 4 and a wife pregnant with their fourth child.
Also killed were Gerald W. Eley, 50, Ray Claucherty, 52, Roy J. Gardner, 25, and Charles Amann, 72, all of Jackson; George Berry, 68, of Michigan Center; F. Russell Baker, 39, of Spring Arbor; William Rose, 37, of Rives Junction; William R. Bingham, 37, of Hillsdale; and Gale Marble, 49, of Flint.
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