New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-05

3CoND FLOOR.
heard the crash OF falling timbers. My desk
was picked up and hurled Almost the
length of the room, breaking through one Of the
moment and then made rush for the street.
do not understand how / escaped with no more
than few scratches and bruises"
GEORGE J. GoULDs EXPERIENCE.
The board-room of the Manhattan Railway
Company is on the second floor Of No. II Broad
way, about one-third of the distance between
Broadway and Trinity Place. where the Rector
st. station of the Manhattan Elevated road is
situated. This room George j. Gould uses as an
Office, and SPENDS considerable Of his time there
He happened 10 be there yesterday at the moment
Of the explosion. lie said last evening:
81 was sitting in my Office at work when the
explosion occurred. The noise was tremendous.
and the conclusion seemed to shake and rGck the
whole building. The building for a long time has
not been regarded as very safe. My first idea was
that there had been an explosion of some kind, or
that possibly a large safe had fallen. The wall
of the adjoining room, which separates Mr..
Sage's room from mine, was violently shaken and
began to crumble. The plaster fell and the lathing
was made bare. Owing to the unsafe condition
of the building and the prevailing sense of in
security which the occupants Of the offices eX-
perence, thought that the whole place was COM
ing GDwn and would bury everything in it.
:" i rushed out and made my way through to
the elevated railroad end of the building. Every
thing was confusion, and people were running in
tirc-escapes But when l got out and saw that
the walls were standing, l made my way back
TO my office where my coat and waistcoat remained.
| always work in my office in my shirtseeves, and
had hung my waistcoat and coat up on one of
the side walls when l went in In tue morning,
for il was quite warm. / soon Learned what had
occurred, but Mr. Sage had passed ont by the
Broadway door As soon as j could | got my
self into communication with Mr.. Sage, and then
sent message TO Dr. Mum, and also one 10 my
father, who remained at his home uptown yester-
day. | sent word 10 him in order That he might
inform Mrs Sage and prepare her for the news.
lie called a carriage and Immediately drove down
10 Mr.. Sagcs residence, and | think he reached
there In time 10 give her the first intelligence Of
the affair.
Mr. Gould added that he was frightened, but
felt no ill effect from the conclusion. The sem
sations, he described, however, extremely I'M
pleasant. 1t appeared to him miraculous that Mr.
Sage had escaped instant death
ANOTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE MAN.
Alfred Weston, a put and call broker, who was
formerly clerk for Mr.. Sage, was standing in
the hall of the second floor waiting to see Mr.
Sage lie tells the following story of his ex-
perence: 4" | saw o tall man, with black beard
and SLOUGH hat. waiting TO see Mr.. Sage Mr.
Sage came out of his private office and walked
with him toward the hall. l overheard Mr.. Sage
say that the man should come in again. He (Mr.
Sage wanted to 90 to luncheon. The man did not
Sechi 10 De satisfied and produced paper to be
signed there. Mr.. Sage refused The next thing
Of the Office, and noise, which seemed to come
from the allShaft. i was blinded by the dust
and made blind rush TO the rear of the build.
ing, and was next conscious of breaking n win
dow in an attempt to escape"
Room No. 20, which is immediately obove thu
IN which the bomb was thrown, was occupied nv
william II. Hawes, who has charge or the
purchasing department Of the Manhattan Railroad
Company. Mr.. Halves was sitting at his dos +
by The window at the time The force NJ tbn
explosion threw him from his chair and hnrled
him back against the opposite wall where tho
floor was first forced up by the Conclusion os the
explosion, and then sank about six inches below
It's normal level This effect was produced onI,,
on the corner Of the floor just over the snot who
the bomb struck. The rest of the floor and the
walls remained firm. Many of the chairs and
tables were wrecked, the pictures and shelves were
thrown from the walls, and the great safe was
forced part way through the floor. Mr. Uawes
was coated with composite of rubbish and int
but escaped injury, as did also the clerks in the
room. ' Al '"e
Charles +. Field was walking along tba bou,,or
several rods from Russell Sage's office AZ d.
time OF the explosion, and he says he saw a mo n
blown out OF the door leading to the bankers az
flee. WV '"'"ei oi'
II saw the man come out at the momo,. .,,.
explosion took place. said Mr. Field lie oo ,ue
out OF the room as IL ne had been sbot fron' :
cannon. His body struck the opposite sida % q
the hallway with terrific force a blpisb' ora y,
smoke flied the hallway so soon after Tho hen,i,
went of that j could not SEQ what bannonn9
after that and did not wait until rho Innea
and dust had cleared away" '' ''ioAe