Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-12-22
The New York Explosion.
Continued Excitement About
the Matter.
ACCOUNTS OF THE
CAUSE.
Thrilling Details Of The Horror.
LARGE CROWDS CLEARING AWAY
TIE RUINS.

NEW YORK, December 81. Continued excite.
neut exists relative to last evenings horror. One
mao was found this morning nader the ruins,
crushed to dealh, in font OF store on Barclay
street.
The engineer in charge of the boiler. and the
fireman, are both missing, and it Is beleved.both
peIished.
The Tribune says the engineer was seen several
tines in Barclay street liquor saloon, next door,
yesterday, aud was seen to DE under the influence
/ OF liquor few minutes before the explosion and
no doubt that disaster was owing to his careless
| ness.
About fifty men are at work clearing away the
RUNS, ana large crowds are in the vicinity.
MI. u eenheld, senior partner was SATURDAY. at
hls desk, / king with friend. and he d. scribes
ms hist sensation as rain of fire upon his bald
head. following immediate ly upon the explosion.
lie does not know how he escaped, and be has not
the remotest idea of how the explosion could
have occurred The engineer, he says. was
sober, capable man. and had been in their EN-.
| lloyment three Years.
Nelson Greenfield was standing near his father
anu says his hrst sensation was of the falling Of
ceiling and shower of fire upon his head III. AZ
well As hls father and brother state the shock came
hon above. MIR. Monica, N customer Llso SAYS
the shock aud shower OF flame came from above
the store door.
+. Ii. Gslpin of New York, detective. was the
thId person TO reach the scene. lie describes the
Concession rs terrific, and his first thought was
that five cracker mandatory had blown up. He
saw great ball of fire shoot p into the air tw ice
as large as Il mans head, and of dazzling bright.
ness. III seemed to shoot out of the second story
OF the candy mandatory. 1t rose 200 ieet aud
then fell, and was da, he'd 10 pieces in the middle
u The street. Mi. Galpin describes the sight as
Que OF the straDsest he ever beheld. small
cloud Vi ilght smoke followed the balls course
ana then small flame OF fire burst out OF the
welt side oil the building. He assisted three men
nut ffom under the heap of brick the side " ak.
lie saw young girl who stood inside the build
ing on the east side. She stood as if parayzed BY
lear her hair standing almost straight from her
head, and was covered with some white substance
Ike Hour, Sue stood IN what took to be the low
Ell hall. She wrung her hands but made no move
to get out. | rushed to her, and SEEING her BY
the shoulder told hel to come with me. She hung
back, and said: For Gods sake, help the girls
behind me; there are lots of them" rushed in
to the building again, and after going about TWEEN.
~ feet In the smoke, came upon about nine Of
the shop girls. These were all IN a group, dumb
founded and immovable from terror. | began to
push them toward the street, say ing, go out 90
out Other persons came TO help, and we LOT
them all safely out, The last two tainted, and we
had TO carry them. | counted seventeen who
Jumped or Climbed out Of the building, twenty
miuutes after reached the scene. The entire
front OF the factory was one broad sheet of flame
LATER. The boiler Inspector visited the ruins
to-day and found both bollers intact. The side
walk uuder which the boilers we've situated was
not torn up OF destroyed, Oue boiler was found
halt full OF water, and the other nearly full. The
Inspector SAID this sitelnoon that one of the tanks
flied WITH material for making candy must have
exploded, and broken ali the lamps in the build
ing, which were Liz hted with kerosene, and these
added much TO tue Iapdiy " it'll which the flames
spread
Tue total loss is Si2S, 900; insurance, 1894 500