New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-03
WAS THERE AN EXPLOSION?
NO EVIDENCE OF IT YET PRODUCED.
r,Ir coRoxERs INQUEST IN TIE CASE OF THE


TIE coRoxERs INQUEST ~ TIE CASE OF THE
VICTIMS OF THE PARK PLACE DISASTER
More evidence about the vibration Of the Taylor
building due 70 the running Of the photographic presses
was given Yesterday before Coroner Hanly ana tho
lury which IS investigating The Park Place disus'u'
Arson H. Naylor Who had been n salesman for F. W.
rrirp,o the druggist. who was killed in the collapse
~ the buding said that sometimes he could not wrie
nm occount of the humping Of the machines overheu
Mfr Trlppe was often alarmed at the shaking OF Tue
bnildinc and sent tho witness upstnrs to compialn
about H. The witness said that in the vault uhder
Trinpe,s store was carboy Of suphuTic acid IN inc
basement wero barrels Of lubrcatne castor OIL n",
barrel of turpenne several cans OF linseed OIL Out
M naphtha In the store itself several barrels
~ r1,bber cement or rubber dissolved in naphtha,
some wood alcohol and about twenty iive pounds Oh
saltpctp in powdered form.
Jacob Frledenberg, Of No. $50 East sixteehtn-st'
said he had gone to the pressrOom OF LeDler ~ m"S9
looking for q Job about year ago. Wheh 10 "en'
into the press-roOm man ut work on one Vi 'uo
presses Jumped to the Aoor The floor was larred 81
bv this that Friedenberg became alarmed and went
AWAY lie refused 90 work in the building
william Dletzel. of No. 342 East Forty -sevehln-sU'
who happened to be in Petersens restaurant just DC
fore the collapse said that he was eating soup "he
he heard rumbng. lie saw the ceiling cracking anu
spoke % young Petersen about it, While ne was 'aiA
knocked senseless The witness said he had noticeu
the chandeliers In the restaurant swinging on many
occasions when he had been IN the restaurant before
Louis Bernard a former stone grinder Tor LleDer "
Mnass appeared with his right arm In sling ana MS
head wrapped in bandages lie was on an upper moor
when he heard a noise like thunder Then the buiuiIs
carne down He fell with it, but was parity proec'eu
by being between two big presses. lie was lmprSoheu
in the ruins for u time but managed TO WORK MS way
ont. He had worked for Lebler Mass Tor tlfeo
years but had never felt any vibration OF the Du'h1
f. f. Chapin a reporter. who was the next Willess'
saw the bndIne fall rs be coming down the stairs
If the Park Place station of the Elevated ROAD TIC
beatd a rumbng sound, like that OF blast ana 81"
sticks and stones dying through the air IN 'front.' Oh to
TAYLOR Euding First the front walls bnlged out anu
in an instant they fell into tue street Al hrst thero
were no flames but soon fire burst out
James Lewis. Of No. ia Perry-at'' was SaieSii'l,
FOR Ro,cneld & Co. lie felt that the bennne uscu
bv the firm had not exploded or taken fire. because
rnpe of the girls who were at work where the behzhe
,ros stored were burned in the least. The BODY Oh
C4olden,idt which was found among the benzne cans,
VS. not even scOTched. The witness sun ihat nv
light was ever taken into the vault Where 1ue OeHN0
Policeman owen Whelan, who is detailed as boher
Inspector testified at there was no sleah oOilo' III
an odiournment was then taken, and the Jury Nsileu
several photographic establishments TO learn what eSct
the running Of the presses had on the OuIuils' i0
inquest will 50 on to-day.