New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-05
Awful catastrophe .-ExPiosicn and
Dreadful Lo.- OF Life.

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Dreadful Lo.- OF Life:
/ The most terrible catastrophe that ha, occurred
in trs C.iy for many years happened yesterday
morning. Ia Hazuc $: nesl Pearl catastrophe IN.
vo.yins create loss OF HE than ever before az
a.c,ed this City IRON similar cause
The large machine shop and printing press manu-
factory Of A. 3 Taylor Co , HagueE. bad .1s,
/ been supplied VIII a new boiler or tAe steam c.
CINE Twas located II the basement o, the bald
inc. which was sit stores high.
The boi.erwss made on the North River SIDE
some time since for NJ Taylor. For some reason
he did noi take Il, aad It was sod to tue Georgia
Steamboat Company. and went 20 Savannah.
Il do rot generate steam fast enough Tor the
purpose O. boat aad Il was socu put ont Of nee.
The boat agent came here tad CONTRACTED ior new
boiler with Messrs Pesse Z MlrPhy, who TOOK
the Oh one il part payment
Mr Taylor subsequently purchased - ani r.
moved il b ms shop. essrs. Peoso Murphy
neither bat nor set il It was not injured b. expo
sure 70 tho weather
At about hafp,st oc'o,k yesterday morning
tn. BOZ er exploded the force passing upward snd
outward toward the street. crushing the bulline
INTO 4 mss # run. in .css than one minute. We
aever saw n wr.ck a. complete the walls, h,ors
large timbers aud roof lie in one compact pie, e.
on Ere. and seethnr, smoking ard stesn.os be-
meath the food o. water poured upoa them.
A.usaal on Monday mornings, the fireman had
serted the Arss uu5sr the boiler a: az earlier hour
than usual. o. Gocoun, o. il getting cod while
standing unused over Sunday, and hardly had Steam
been raised. and motion communicated TO the SHAT
ing when the explosion TOOK place. snd in 81 IL
slant he upper part Of the building was Blown
completely of. tnd Are communicated TO tie re-
mainder
The io-ce Of the explosion dashed ia the wiz.
dlw.. frames and doors Of several adjoining build.
iass. and seriously endangered the wall, Of Hull
sons large soap and candle factory, which aiiO1ed
tie ruin.d building.
The windows aud doors across Hague st and IN
the rear q houses ia Pearst. were burst in as il
with cannon shot, and everything around indicates
that the explosion was one OF tie most voler; that
oonh occur. So pow erfgl was tie explosion thst
the shock. ike the trembling OF IN earthquake. was
fo.: f. some OF the stores in Broadway, distanc,
in direct line, of about quarter q a mile, AM
was probably felt al a greater DISTANCE The floors
Of Mes.. Hull 4 Sons building were hted up
AMI the thick walls, Goth those adjoining Mr Tsy
,ors establishment ami those fronting on the next
street we're bulscd considerably, although bnit o
unusral thickness with reference to the possibility
Of ire OF other contingency.
But the most awful part OF th.s calamity, Is the
sudden and uuwsrned destruction Of a large NUN
/ Der OF workmsD. Ia the present excitemert It is
/ impossible 20 ascertain the number lost bu. We
fear it win be found to reach from FIFTY 10 sixty
! The number employed 10 the machine shop. ard
! hat mandatory which occupied the upper part
Of tue premises varioasly stated At from 100 g.
/ l2S-but as il was rather early Ia the day it IS
/ hoped that a god portion were absent From the
best information we can get we believe there were
very near one hundred persons IN the building at
the time Of tire explosion. About dozen u tie
persons employed were gr-s
! A gentleman. who was u the immediate neigh
borhood when the explosion tooA place informed Is
thsi in the hgisf Interval between the falling OF tie
buidin- ana the bursting o., o; the flames he saw
tie rnias. an from the number o. limbs or ether
part. o bodies projecting from among The raia' lie
estimated The number Of these partially visible a.
/ about twenty -nNc or iAirtr-
The bells rang Tor the fith district, sai seen ;oH
/ ed genera. alarm, aad large force OF fresasr
was quickly on Tie ground, beaded b. Chief El1
aeeg Ca-sou, and Also a poice force UB1sr Che.
/ Ms;sea. who instantly SET q work TO ex,uca;s the
4 unfortunate sat eIers, many 81 whom were Gout,-
| less Ey.ns isr considerable per.ol alsr ne -
pasiaa. ana SCI asubor q whoa were taksa
! out alive.
The lowsr Porvoas q the building were oc-lF C
/ ~ Allah 3. Tsy'o-. printing press asks- snd IA
! chinlsf VITO h'1 u rs erariovneL: sbSu; 5gy-lve
xen aad boys nearly al q wto-a were az v-0rk ~
/ the time Of To explosion. Tee t1l0w-g = isi
/ Q! dose known - have been a. work
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