New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-20
A RAIN OF HOT METAL.
SIXTEEN MEN BURNED IN A FOUNDRY.
EXPLOSION OF CUPoLA OF MELTED IRON
LIST OF THOSE INJURED.

blSI Ot IbOSf INJU ktD
A loud explosion in the foundry Of Cassidy & Adler,
manufacturers Of plumbers rOnwarc, at No. 53l West
Fifty nfth-st. caused panic among the 200 work
men employed there few minutes before p. IN. yes
terday, and startled the inmates Of many tenement
houses In the neighbOrhood. When several mouders
ran from the foundry su Tering from burns their
faces, arms and hands, and crying out that the big
furnace had exploded, the excitement in the street
intense. policeman rang for the hremen al the
nearest signalbOx. Engines and hook and ladder
trucks responded but there fire in the foundry
large eupola for melting iron had exploded and
had Aung hundreds Of pieces OF hot metal among the
worlnen. like grapeshOt knocking the men down ana
burning sixteen OF them. one man, Peter Scolon''
sensclcss when his comrades carried him out 10
the street The nrcmen saw that ambuanOes and
surgeons needed promptly, and a call FOR uree
ambulanccs was sent from the fire alarm box Two
ambulanccs from the Roosevelt Hospital responded IN
a few minutes Soon ambulanccs from Bellevue. st.
vincent, and the Presbyterian Hospital were driven
10 the foundry 4 dozen injured men were taken 70
the Roosevelt Hospital and the Others were attended
BY surgeons at the Office Of Cassidy ~ Adler
II was ascertancd that only three of the men were
burned dangerously. ScolOns was the only one kept
al the Roosevelt Hospital, and lis burns IL VIZ 9d"'
might result fatally.
Edward NcNally and Frederick Ro,cnhcn were taken
10 Bellevue Hospital. but it believed that iHey
would recover All the other men who were burned
went home after heinz treated by the surgeons fol-
lowing is a LIST Of the injured men;
BAETHoLDls August 80 3oi We't IN, ay ,l ,Gi3S, rom
slqhtlv barncd tu. face and arms went h'"' 'O"
,'l,,,r'Inf ,,or', .l,ratlv burned on BODY walked
RlGLow. Henry age forty three burned ,.shty on the
head and br'ast: would NOT 20 10 d no p'," ', ,o.,
GEO-SKOTP Adam 40. 53 West tiIt' XXX ,rs,i oo
arms and hands burned severely ana h'"u "FuiSeN' .
went home.
HOWARD. john. so 2o3 wcst sixty-sIXth-st, severe
KrIfy. patrick so 40 vs.; Ffty-siXth--t face ana
ann, burned severely sent hone'
KiMGd ia.d d& }?S2 oS go age to iS,T'55 ao.5; ''''
NrrNnF PatrrN so. 40 West Fhy.socond--t.b face
aud itu- rnrd Ic!yi sent homr from 'h1 I'""H'
N,rt<X Ia,,cA. 40 $50 wcs, Tinc,h,t, sll2.t
v,IIiI@AN. william o, wost Thry-sc,, n,h--t.. slight
NS4I; >aT: G 5S ir,' tt.ussrrt4 to Bellevue or nom
M{SloN le 50 nss a. w's y,os ISs IFeryfooFh'' slight
,r.l;rltY Daniel 80 973 VT !-fourthst. sewer.
L4, on face ana arms sent home from te Roosevelt
ro,rIKrN rrcte-ck ago nirty.four. Of No. 4i3 W.,
" Ff.l,ilth.-t. burned dangerously on tn. arms. ie,
,e, f, buia- lad been bandaged at NE Roosevelt
scAIIDN. Francis. 80 o.3 West Firy.-nth.,t. arm,
scoLLoxs. re,r ata fosv. Of 80 800 EeysaSh-r'yc '
u r..
TIE cupoIa that exploded held fourteen tons Of iron
irfrt r. r.,party wa, said ~ Dee thirty tun- \
hole four feet ~ 'mg,r vas 9 ,%n n N 2G g' 9 ,o ' wcr @
blown ont. NJ Cassidy ~,ud the iron had h~ % in
b firra.r o0y fifteen minutes hcforr thc explosion
occurred. Impri-oud rt"- which ta u't ri' 81
,I.. nnr4,, /. f., luE & Ia, l.eu boo operation
.|.t tct-- tud thr pIp-oD ycstcrIif "!- ih- I-i
.... .u t.r place. Nr. Cassidy said uc did not -'r'
Aoa he ,fio.lon c5uId have eceq l.e,.en or pre-
t.ff tod