New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-07

General Grant would accept the position ana MS
name is beng urged by many persons lnleres'eu /"
the work.
SERIOUS EXPLOSlON IN A BREWERY NAI.
FIVE MEN SEVERELY BURNED WHILE NAHNls''i>"
IN PETER DoELGER's BREWERY
The evpIoSion o. can Of snellac varnish IN ier-
nentinp fnh M Peter Dodgers brewery IN Ea't
Fifty-ffth-st, yesterday, nearly cost me lives ~
fOIr men who were at WoFk ia me Vd'; ~ az ti.
caught ire from lamp by the light OF when tncS
were working. The men when rescued were ,,aku
10 Bellevue Hospital where It was deemed iI"naoc
that an four wOuid die. hfh VINO hcip,u sm'..
ont OF the vat was badly burned about the hal'Hs'
He is in the ST. Francis Hospital. The names oil Tue
injured are
AnSrz. GEORGE He was severely burnt on the hands
auI went 10 st. Francis Hospital ,o,c rrs,-
BINIAR, CHARLES. age twenty-'evcn o. No. Vlu rms
ave He was burned about tile body, and Is ih~ensi
BRAUN WILLIAM, age twenty, Of no 999 sec9nd-aVe'
lie was burned about the face. body ana Ihus, H.,
PFANNER JOHN age tw"ntyo o. No. IOdS iHst,I'I , ~
was badly burned about the hands arms anu ieES d.
v,IT!uTRrcK' ANTON. age hiriy.two. Of No. 1,ol6
FIrst-ayc lie was terribly burned from head 10 loot
Peter Doclgcr's brewery embraces IN one DuiinlnE
Nos All TO 10 East Ffty-iiiths'. In pASen,Cnc
r,nr, 5Ov1OO feet are the iermcntlng NAtS, nearly
a hundred IN number. They are OF wood, AM opehaU
The top Entrance 10 interior Is gained lhlouHh
holes i'll til" side large enough to admit OF tng pan ,c
sqre OF a mans body. II was INTO one OF thcSc' 'cn
feet across and Twelve IN height, that the tour men
went down at 10 Oclocl. Yesterday forenoon 10 var
risL thr sitrs rhcy carried n can of shcllac var
uis1 and n land lantern, the upper part OF which
Wa. covered with leather I he work to waich
these men were assigned ~ dahtcr"u' an" NeolS'
Arutz was WITHIN call outside the vat.
Tie men inside had been at work nearly an hour
when suddenly Il pulf rs of slight explosion was
followed by sIriekS. Braun appeared at 'hc hoiF'
his clothes and beard on file. and scrambled through
lie was followed by tongues of flame through
winch Amt pullcd ont John IlAnner - mann
strength. PiTlar and Wm'>chureck were rescued
with difficulty. being too badly burned TO help
themselves. ArnZ was severely burned about the
hands. The fire IN the vat soon went out. The
other workmcn carried the injured men INTO thc
englne-rO0m and covered their Dooles-lrom Which
the skin peeled of with Their ciothes-With
OH and cotton. As soon rs an ambulance
could be procured 10y the police, ne four who had
becu in the vat were taken t. Bellevue Hospital.
ANTI went 10 ST. Francis Hospital himself aud had
his iaplS haud1g%d.
As to the cause Of the fire, different theories were
ADVANCED. Inc oil i'll tie lamp Was nnu-"N ploslNr
lard oil. and story that II exploded, told by one
o. the burned men. was -hOwu TO lee u1true. Ii ls
pr1ba Die ,hat the fumes from the il !immabc VAL
nish wcr, IGuitcd. ana The fire was t.u% mmGul-
Gated to the open can in which 1t was kept.
DIeAGUEEABLE RESULTS OF THAW.
TIE STREETS NEARLY MrAssinLE = SCENES IN
BROADWAY AND pOWN-1OWN.
A more thoroughly disagrccabIe day Cor going
about than yesterday Is rarely mot with IN this
city. IL the morning thc air Wa dense and heavy
with smoke aid ms, and me Prn-
ctmting Ia.n cama down. The RAPID thaW
which had set in rendered the streets
uavqable only with great difficulty. Horses strug-
gled and slipped, sweating, stedming and showing
their distress hV heavy brc1tp lng Men carefully
picked out paths, but Occ3- OnailN slipped INTO deep
places sp,aShed around almlcssN in search OF SOLID
ground and with shoes full of wafer were often heard
to swear. There a great deal of dcccptVcurss -
what often appeared To he sold portions OF the
caIlh's surface. he dirty snow on the top of the
motiones, water III many of the cutters caused
much misplaced confidence \ foot set down with
n feeling of the utmost confidence often would be
withdrawn from Il depth of from four eight inches
Of muddy wafer. The persons who were so un-
fortunate as to slip and fall yesterday, -and they
were not a lew-pickcd thcms Ives up III condition
neither pleasant 10 b. experienced or seen.
Broadway seemed to be better cared for than
most of the other streets. The sidewalks we're
nearly all cleaned, and every here and there the
snow wa shoyclcd mp in heaps on the pavement.
In the upper and lower portions OF the city. how
ever Broadway was about as bad as other streets.
The maln thOroug hiares as general rule, were IN
better condition than the cross streets. In the
morning many gangs OF men were busy shOVelllng
the slush into piles along the sides OF the car
tracks and this often rendered 1t lmpossi bic for
wagons and trucks TO turn out for the cars cOuse-
quently there were great delay and NcXatOn on tie
surface roads In many streets ridges OF snow from
three to four feet high were heaped up III the gut
ters and then not removed but left 10 melt and MI
the centre of the streets with water which could
not run OH For this reason portion OF the BOWcY
was such condition that II was sad TO Resemble
the Mississippi River. Second, Tnlrd aud sixth
aves were particularly dsageelbe from tie con;
slant dripping Of dirty water from the elevated
roads. AT the Junction Of the roads at Chatllan-
SQUARE the water came down in suCh quantities as
to suggest brisk shower Fith-avc. was not as
gay as usual. Occasionally, sleigh struggled
through the slush, but sleCh-rlding did not
possess ITS usual charms and was little III
duged IN. On por ions Of the avenue large ridges Of
dirty snow stretched down the middle Of the street.
looking as if they had been piled there early in the
season and then forgotten Between these ridges
and the sidewalks there was an almost smooth level
of wate:. The Academy of Design seemed more
Venetian than ever as 1t overlooked great pool of
water at Twentv-third-St. and hOurtl-ave., ant
passers-by undoubtedly would have ~elcomcd
gondola or two TO complete the illusion and help
them across the street.
Downtown some of the streets were i'll terrible
condition. In the region known as - the Swamp"
there were many small lakes. S0uth-st generally
bad was worse than ever At a late hour The gaTb-
age barrels there had not been elnpted, and many
of them had been overturned III the slush. Fulton
81. was almost impossible. Wall-st. was as bad,
and brokers with rOeduo trousers looked AZ If they
rather envled the District telegraph boys III Their
high rubber boots.
Throughout the country the temperature gener-
ally was higher than 1t has been for some time; rang
ing between 80 and 40o The weather nearly
everywhere was cloudy. In tins city the tempera-
ture varied from 80 to So.