New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-20
MORE TROUBLE FORAM ENDE
FATAL EXPLOSION IN HIS LABORATORY.
TWO MEN WHO CANNOT INSTRUMENTATION CON.
BUsTIoN THE PROBABLE CAUSE.

TWO MEN WHO CANNOT LIvE-sPoNTANEoUs CON-
BUsrIoN THE PROBABLE CAUSE.
Charles G. Am Ende, the druggist whose
error in putting up morphine for qunine caused the
death OF Marguerite and Ella Hoiz months ago.
keeps laboratory at Washington and Seventh s,s. Ho
boken. Tho building Is Of brick three stories high
There drug store the first floor. owned BY Henry
FRANKIE Co. Am Ende formerly owned 1t. bat after
the danth OF tho Hoz girls he transferred to FRANKIE.
who had been his chief clerk for years !. gen.
orally understood that Am Ende still retains interest,"
in the business. Tho second and third floors
were occupied by Am Ende q laboratory and
| manufactory OF antiseptc bandages and msdcated
cotton. Am Ende has attained quito a reputation ~
chemist and he was constantly engaged in experiments
few minutes before yesterday there terrific
explosion In the building and the noise had scarcely
died away before the entire upper floor mass OK
flames. There three working that floor In
the second from the front There four rooms
on the floor The explosion seemed 10 the men to have
in the back room and they In that direction
to what 1t Before they reached the door tney
vere covered with shower Of chemical spray and 'u
medatey their clothing caught fire from the flames wb
which the room filed. The men we're:
THEODORE HEsgR eighteen engineer living at No "a
EDWIN sPoERR. twenty 'onr chemist, No. los Garden
Jony WAKENAS age twenty chemist. 2s6 Tenth
New-YOrx.
Heiser his terror and excitement Of the VIM
awning rolling from tha, the
coat caught hook but the cloth strong enough To
bear the strain. and he fell 10 the street somo
picked him up and with their assistance
he walked 81 Mary's Hospital IL found
that dreadfuy burned the head. face snf
bodyn his feet the only portion OF his body hss
escaped the flames lie presented shocking sight when
the remnants OF his clothing removed The skin andn
places the iesn peeled his body swelled 10
enormous size. lie cannot
spoerr and Wakemn exercised more presence OF mind.
They the the side OF the building
which ooke the roof OF Am Ende- private house snd
after gaining the roof taken down
through the skygh They conducted 10 drug store
tie opposite and removed thence to the hospital
Spoerr badly burned about tic heal and body aud ns
thought that he inhaled Of the llne. There 10
slight possibility that he bl, It Is not at all
probable. wakeman burned ab)ut the heat arms snt
hands and hs injuries while serious an extreay paiafg
considered fatal.
Immediately explosion alarm of fire sound
ed. but for unexplained ne lry bres-
quarters before engine vachel the
1he Hose Company the first TO arrive and they
crippled by not having sufficient hose to take sean
Of water to the oOr Other engines reached the ara
time conne the the floor The four rooms
completely gutte while stock aud chemical apps
below and the stock IN the drug store were
by The building ia owned by Henry H. Han
kins no estimates HIS loss at 5000 n.rred m the Ger
mania Insurance COMPANY Tor 80 An ~ - "a 'o s
s1E24 S nnrc a1T fr"Ae Co. between anu 0''A
Mr. Am Ende was in NewYork explosion.
When be had happened seemed
10 partially AM acte much he d ~hen
the poisoning accident occurred lie went to -. MsrTs
Hospital and begged 10 the men who had been u uri
being admitted 70 the wart IN which they yinN ~
wrung hands while the Dled down his CHEEKS Ha
finally became demonsratve that deehei aivsabe
o take hIm II the building.
TO the nrr. Henry HEDGES. Of the ire ZEN,
fell at tIfih and Washington SIS, ani the wheel
the engine struck him with considerable ioies'
tu did not iges nlt lt
danger t1lt lccOaIL he
taken home ambulance -
cause explosion not beeh asc annex boe
lear le1 In which room tt occurieL itrists
SpOerI1 On TIA. ioOt wake.
BILE about tn hrrebct
tell about IT, He said that no ann is cpytn
ions explosion. - EiTt me
room. which tey supposed the explosion h,i
occurred the door by volume 81 uane y
believed that there spontane 'us c0nbnstcn 81
chemicals An Ende In the paraon o n' antsep
baniages and medicated cotton An nvegltn WIZ %
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