The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-02-12
Terrible Explosion in New York. Great
Loss of Life.

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Loss Of Life.
On Monday morning, of last week, a ter
dble explosion took place at A. d. Taylor
s. Coz Printing Press Manulactory,--No
3 Hague Street, New York-near Pearl
Street. We gave some oil the particulars
in part Of our edition last week. We are
now able to give fuller and more accur-
ate account Of this most appalling event.
The establishment of Messrs. Taylor e.
Co. had just been supplied with new boil
err for The steam engine. 1t was located in
the basement Of the building. which was
six stories high.
About half past seven O'Clock, on the
4lh inst, the boiler exploded, the force pas
sing upward and outward toward the
street, crushing the building into mass oil
ruins-the walls, floors, large limbers, aud
roof falling into Une compact pile, all on
fire.
The force of the explosion dashed in the
windows, frames and doors of the several
""Jo'"'"s "uhu'"gs' SERIOUSLY ehuang
cring the walls of Hull e. Sons large soap
and candle factory, bicb adioined the ru.
ned building.
The loss of life proves 10 have been very
great, though lees than estimated by the
first accounts. Tue number employed in
the machine shop, and bat mandatory
l.. :. / II.
winch occupied the upper pari oil the prem
ses, is variously stated at from 100 10 so
but as it was rather early in The dav
o,i,e n,,ho, ~ c,.,.,.-
"''e 'o''u""'''y aoSe"'
Almost instantly ai'er the explosion, a
large lo'ce oi Hiemen' ponce and citizers
ce' 10 Wo'h 70 eN'r'fate me sufferers, though
from 'he r"p'd sp'eau oil me ilre' This was
lno1r VI ereh' uaneerahu u'liicu'y. New
er'nc,css, Few were goi OUT l'nmeuiate'y'
uuu ,llH eroahs ana lces OF o'hers lar IN
ner ''le runs stimulated 10 'ie most hercu-
lean eAertions' VI some ll''een earliest
resnueu' oniy one was nea1;
Cne nome ooy' named freder'ck STEM
"le', was uug ou,, fortunately not danger
uusy rpluIeu'I" me the hreheh were
"'sg""e away '"e 'u'lS over ms hean, lney
GU" "en' us V"'ce encouraging MS ieIIo"
sun''cr' a.ot1er Doy, ra.hef seriously nur''
:" ' ,a I've, .oul"ee, ~, 'ie nre'neh "e'c mere
""n my "ou'u soo'' oe saVeu'
n""''ier ,',"" was 'aNeh OUT OF Tue RUNS
at ''e rear u''er "'nlnsi superhuuan exer~
.o,s on 'ie part oil me ilremen' the suiier-
g having nee" caught between Two beams
nnu coTereu wl'n PIE OF Drlcks' Inc
low Le6, ,yavinG lie ha,.d ,n liz pJ" ho1
thrust through The aperture, in token that
he sun survived. More than once the fire.
.Ii.h h'u ~ I.op nnc pay upon ,he lanes
ty where the man was s'' confped '0 ''''
Mr.. C. o. Jcssup narrowly escaped with
MS He what became of him al the mo
"."o VI ',,o ehi',oslU'' ne cou.u hoi 'elI; out
the eastern part ri The bn;ldina w;,h r,,ch
OF the ruins laid upon his shoulders and
re"", uul ms 'eet corpara''ve'y a, hoeT,y'
clo,he- were r7os,,v ,orn o,, his bacs ''
One oil The most painful cases was thai
Of BOY, named Iindalc. He was lound
- , ~ '''s 'ec. "nu 'e9s were so hrmly
an immense henn If ,;mher and hr;cLs ~
exlricate him. While in this condition he
was led WIN bread and milk, and made as
o ,.' r Us PpSs,''e, wn''o me SLOW
was finally extricmcd at about o'clock on
Tuesday morning, after terrible confne-
menl oil ~ hours All possible care was
taken oil him, but The brave little fellow died
about O'Clock, the same morning.
Many similar incidents If thrilling in
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