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

1T WAS A TERRIFIC sHoCKLTHE WRECKED
ROOMS
Russell sage's Offices occupy Rooms Nos. 80 and
80 and the Manhattan Company Nos. 45 TO 81. in
elusive. Frank X. Hahn and George Gould have
Offices here well the directors auditor, secretary
and treasurer general manager and cashier. In here
1t was seen that the whole side of the room adjacent
to No 80 was blown in from the top and all the
windows out on the Rector-st. side.
On the third floor, directly Mr.. Sage. is the
Office Of A. G.. Howes, the purchasing agent Of the
Manhattan Railway. His desk was lifted up three
feet from the floor and the flooring boards broken
into pieces. p. B. Cook assiStantengneer, was
sitting at his desk and he SAYS his desk was lifted
clear of the floor and that Mr.. Grimes. one Of the
draughtsmen, had his desk turned over on the side
nv the concnsslon. Surgeon J. S. Freer and NJ. ID.
Field of the Manhattan Company also have Offices on
tho third floor over Mr.. sage's private office. but
they had locked up and gone home. AssstantEn-
cineer Cook further says that he looked out OF the
Rector st. window Immediately after the explosion
and saw body lying in the gutter on pile OF
rubbish and from the position Of the body feels Ger
tain that II must have been thrown out Of the window
OF Mr.. sages Office
Charles Phillips, the New-YOrk agent OF the Diamond
State Iron Company, seen on his way to take the
train for Wilmington and he said that he was standing
talking in tIc windows of the Union Trust Companys
building No 80 Broadway, and had been looking with
party spoke Of George Gould having Office in No Al
broadway and he looked Just as the shock came ana
then he saw the body lying In the gutter as soon as
the dust and smoke cleared up and coat was thrown
twenty feet the into Trinity Church GROUNDS
This coat turned out TO be Russell Sages oVercoat
and was taken him later by some one in the crowd
From Mr. Phillipss position in the Union Trust Build
ing and his happening to at the building the very
moment OF the explosion he was an unusually gcod
eve witness that the body actually thrown out OF
the window when the bomb exploded.
The Tribune reporter who obtained access TO the
bnrlding shortly after the explosion found Inspector
Steers and large Of policemen In charge and the
corridors filed with excited crowd OF people hurry
ing to and fro OF them in search OF relatives ana
friends The widest reports were in circulation one
was that Mr. sage was killed outright another that at
least dozen persons had perished and were buried in
tho ruins few minutes examination proved the
,aIsity Of this rumor The wrecked Offices afforded no
hiding place for any such number Of bodies, but they
nevr-fle'e-s presented r shocking appearance.
Roth Mr.. sage's Offices his private room and the
outer apartment, were completely wrecked. The
windows were blown out the floor ripped up and broken
through where the bomb exploded the walls shattered.
and like the ceiling. covered with blood, cloth, bits
of CARPET and shreds Of human flesh Desks
and chairs were piled up In inextricsble con-
tuslon The air filed with dust and
time Papers and bonds. representing thousands and
thousands of dollars, lay scattered about In profuson
with no one apparently having thought about them
or caring what became Of them. everybody seemed
to be either dazed or wild with excitement even the
policemen and iremen sharing In the disturbed feel
ing The hall Just outside Of the Office, however,
presented the most slckening sight Here lay the body
of the wreiched creature who threw the bomb. Ills
shattered remains afforded frghtful spectacle Of the
explosive's deadly and destructive powers His head
had been severed from the trunk as py guiotine, his