Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-25
News by lelegrapn FROK ALL QUARTERS. HOMES SHOT HIGH IN AIR. Fire and Death In the
 Track of Natural Gas. IA MUTInOUS CREW IN IRONS. TaImage and Gladstone
 Vis-a-vis at HaWarden. SHOT BY k WRONGED HUSBAND. Murder Caused By a Wife's
 Unfaithfulness.
IA MUTINoUs CREW IN IRONS.
SHOT BY 4 WRONGED HUSBAND.
HOUSES CRUmBLE AS SAND.

HOUSES CRUMBLE AS SAND.
 truction in Columbus Tenements
 While Fire Adds Hts Work to she
 Ruin.
 COLUMBUS, Jan 24.-A natural gas explo- sion tonight destroyed two dwellings, killed at least eix persons and more or legs eeri- ously injured twenty.seven others. About people to small two-story building at the south corner of Wall and Noble alleys. There had been an explosion there and several per- sons were hurt. The sightseers were per- mitted to enter the alley and pushed up close to the house. Tie fire was soon put out by the fremen and the crowd were laughing and talking when a second and terrific explosion rent the air. A sheet of flame burst from the building at the northwest corner of Noble and Wall alleys, and a great mass of bricksi beams and stones that thirty seconds before had constituted two story brick building. were flying with scene was terrible. The people fled, shriek- ing in all directions, while the alley was in- stantly covered with mass of debris, from which the moans of buried victims came. Pallid, trembling women tottered and ran across the alley and streets, moan- ing or shrieking. Men with foreheads and shoulders drabbled with blood staggered from among the debris. A woman enveloped in sheet of flame. bareheaded and frenzied, ran shrieking from the house across the al- ley. A man dashed off his overcoat and ran to throw it around her. A fireman who held the nozzle of a hose saw her danger and turned the stream on her. It knocked her down, but saved her life, extin- gushing the flames. Shewss lifted from the ground and hurried into a neighboring house. Every inch of clothing had been burned from her down to her waist. Her venerable and with white hair and beard, was dug from the ruins and hurried to a place where medical assistance could be given him. His frosty beard was covered condition. But se1dest of all. fearless mother with her heart frozen by fear and grief staggered from the ruins holding tight to her heart the seemingly lifeless form of her three months old babe.
 The explosion, ss near as can be escer- tained, resulted from an accumulation of natural gas in the cellar of the house occu- pied by Michael Bowers and Mir. Marrott. No natural gas pipes were put into the house, but the cause was a natural gas main in Noble alley which leaked. The ground was frozen and the gas seeking its way out went by the easiest way and of course entered the cellar. It has no scent and its presence could not be detected. It saturated the buildings. The side of the Marrott House was blown out and the roof freed of it's support fell over and hung from the top of the house to the yard below. The explod- ed vapor after doing it's terrible work on the south side of Noble alley leaped over to the
 north side of the alley and completely de-
 stroyed the house at No. 34 West Noble This house was g Zone and half story brick, with three rooms down and two upstairs Here everything was blown to chips. The house shot up and parted like piece of fire wood, falling back as do the sparks from 8 rocket. The great mystery was how the flames passed from one cellar to the other | without having as much as disturbed brick | or atone on the roadway.
 A team of spirited horses attached to one
 of the fire department ladder trucks, became
 frenzied by the explosion and dashed into the
 crowd, carrying death in their wake. They ran over and injured scores of people.
 Charles Berry's infant son was knocked from
 its mothers arms and falling beneath the
 wheels of the vehicle was crushed to death.
 Probably half dozen of those injured were
 fatally hurt.