The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-24
City Intelligence.


troupe. signor Amodio ia route for the United
States,
City Intelligence.
TERRIBLE GAS EXPLOSION EAST TWENTY NINTH STREET
Between and eight O'Clock last evening terrible
explosion took plsce in the teneent house los East
Twenty ninth street, persons being badly injured n
that the building had but recently been erected
In fact has hardly been finished The wner the pro-
perty bad placed In charge Of the building Mr. Daniel
Fuch and family, who occupied the second floor During
yesterday therVw two filters at work putting in
pipes and appears that portion Of the pipe which
extended srall closet on the same door had bsea
lefLnncapped. The men quit work about six O'Clock,
and On leaving closed the door Of the closet after them
Abont dark Mr. tuch went into bedroom adjoining, with
lighted lamp but no sooner did he open the door than
terrific explosion took place. tearing up the entrerocr OF
the second story and completely demosning everything
children, William, Frederick and Jaeob together with
MIR. Fuchs brother In law, taking tea and they
ana terribly burnt about the face and The yoanres
OF the boYs jacob severely injured that but
hopes entertained for his recovery Every board
laid to walk upon little boy, who was in the yard at
the time, was badly injured by being hurled against
work 'ss pipe in ss
and the gas escaping circulated through the upper story
thereby causing the explosion. Mr.. Fuch was badly,
dren and his brother law, Adam Fuch His watch was
blown out Of his pocket aud could nowhere be found.
The GrereD hearing or the explosion, were speedily
the ground, and extingusbed the flames, which had
set fire to the beams The damage to the building win
amount 10 about 81 $780, fully insured in the Bowy and
New York insurance companies. The noise, It s ssit,
could have been heard for over mile. Everything was
done 10 aid the sufferers and is thought that their iu
juries viii prove light, Capt Speight and Sergeant
Brooks Of the Twenty first ward police, were present
MELANCHOLY DEATH or Two scAyxSGxss.--A melancholy
accident occurred at 1876 Pearl street yesterday morning.
by which two men, named Conrad Desscr and Geo School,
lost their lives party Of scavengers, appears were
engaged in cleaning sink the above number, when
Diesser. who was one Of the party descended with
lighted candle and shovel for purpose Of cleaning out
the 9Th. He bad been there hut few minutes, how
ever when he became suocaed from the effects OF the
poisonous atmosphere, and fell down insensble Scho
Immediately descended the relief Of the dying man.
when he too observed TO fall PROSTATE from the
effects Of the deadly gas After some delay the unorta
nate brought TO the surface, but by that time
they had become exhausted that all efforts 70 revive
them proved unavaing They remained inBcnsibe until
eight O'Clock, when death ensued Coroner oKeefe held
an inquest upon the bodies when the jury rendered
verdict OF Deah om the inhalation Of poisonous gases
while at work cleaning out sink at 436 Pearl street.
Dresser was native OF Germany, and was forty years
Of age. Scholl was also native Of Germany, ana was
about forty nine years Of age.
TIE RAIN STORM on WEDNESDAY NGT.--we visit
cd by very heavy rain storm Wednesday night
which for severity and copousness surpassed anything
within our recollection. II commenced about eleven
O'Clock and rained quite moderately until half past
o'clock Thursday morning. at that hour the storm in
creased and the wa,ery elements fell in torrents until
half past four o'clock giving streets the appearance
OF small rivers Overlooking cellars in the lower portions
OF our CITY ana IN the up town districts washing
eu'hankmens, undermining foundations OF houses,
aud converting sinken lots into artificial ponds where
ragged urchns amused themselves hugely yesterday by
bodies, old doors boats &C The damage TO property in
this city and snbdrbs from the effects OF the storm must
have been pretty large.
NOVEL sdSs-LADY GoDrA NEw Yosx--About
eleven o'clock yesterday the inhabitants OF Sixteenth
ttreet thrown into state Of excitement, aud
Ivened by the appearance Of young woman supposed
to be from the grcenest OF ses) in n state Of nudity
appears she had taken IL into her wise head probably
influence OF the crater) dvest herself Of her
clothing and have plunge into the Hudson. While uxn
rating in the liquid stream, some mschevous urchns
poupced upon her clothing and bore them on In npo.
Nothing dsuned che emerged foGa Der bath boldly
faced the SCOTS and jbes OF this Leartess word How
far she had travcrsed Sixteenth street the writ doth moi
know, but when by him she the Fghth
with little more than g leaf 70 screen her taat
10 To say, che had but apron ~ her. that
good Samaritan had supplied her with the road Ult
ms,ely smiling policeman took her in TOW. amid the
fles 81 the men, the laughter OF the women and the
Of the children Neither the s, mpathy OF the
the modesty 81 the however, appear 10
have been excited 10 the pitch OF beet0wng her old
garment Of Kind in this state she led OF TO
the police station.
ARRIVAL CAPTAIN MAKrS rsoa BosroS-Captain Mar
tin the vegetarian, wo recently made offer TO
the feat and arrived In this city yesterday afternoon
naif past I'VE O'Clock very much sunburned and tired
lie left Boston about weeks ago, bis skeleton boat
weighing only fy pounds, and after stopping at several
places The route, arrived here safely yesterday as
above stated. He observed by Mr.. Smiley the cox.
the hsrbor police boat, No g. who, together with
The crew. asrised him 10 land his boat II Was deposited
The shop Of Mr. bowling, al the foot Of Montgomery
street Al the time the arrival Of Captain Martin he
a large melon In his boat. which was ~ him
better and Dourishirr than water. His arms were
very much burned by the but his face had unusual
appearance. We suppose we shall hear more Of him be-
fore lorg
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM BrnSS On "Wednesday morning
Mrs. Rsannah Mccain. about twenty years ~ age,
siding No 1877 East Eleventh street. attempted light
n FIRE 10 a with the aid Of oampl Unfortunate
ly the containing the fluid exploded burning her TO
snch extent that she died shortly after Coroacr Jack
man held an inquest and verdict was rendered Ia &C
cordance with the above facts.
orr i'm TRAcx-The newspaper express train on the
HUDSON River Railroad whrh len this city at half past
three O'Clock yesterday morning IN the track lear
Msnbat,ah Vile The storm had washed the sand aud
gravel The rails at this point ana in passing the
locomotives OF No person Injured The damage 10
the engine will not exceed one hundred dollars.