Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-24
r,r,her Particulars About the tx.
plo.Ion at Park Place, New
York City.
,,ss ADDS ITS HORRORS TO THE
RUsr.
Tho Avml Scenes Described by Eye
Witnesses: Dead Bodies
Recognized.
y, Telegraph to the SEws.l
rtr VIEW YORK DISASTER.
,meps tho nuin- OF the Collapsed
tiuifdiug.

.m.,s the nuin. OF tho Collapsed
uuiiaing~
NEW YoHK, August ga most
t,sa.trous accident occurred this after
noon In Park place. At that time the
str.ct was filled with people and heavi-
iv laden wagon. aud trucks. a
small vaporish cloud was seen 70 BUN.
t,1m the ground floor Of 10, ~ and ~
Park place, followed By dull, suilen
toar. This was followed Immediately
by an eruption, and mas oil bIick,
stone ndtimber hurled thirty feet IN
the air. .,u.
lnps at Nos. 10.1i fell crashing into
Inc street, leaving not the slightest
,pmhlancc Of what had been there
uc1nd before apparently strong anu
willie instructed buildings. The mus
o, fallen brick and timber hall nllcd
ihestret. Al first there was no sign
on Dire. The falling walls broke tho
steam pipes, from which steam was
srouting forth. a number OF electric
wires were torn down, but fortunately
tho current was turned OF from all but
one.
The crowds made the streets almost
K flre WINS now seen to be breaking
out at No. -. A large number Of men,
who had clamhered upon the ruins 10
assist the wounded people In getting
out OF the building, were forced frOn
lhclr posts by tho fire, which was
sprcading rapidly. Owing 10 the
blocked condition Of all the neighbor.
Ing streets the fire department could
not get TO the buildings Tor several
minutes. Finally ono ANAL stream
ffom hydrant played ON the side
ncKt to No. IS. Soon after the en-
Rlnes arrived, anu all directed their
euot,s toward the one side OF the build
Ing.
Suddenly fiamts bur, from tho
third, fourth aud nth stories Of that
part u the building on Park place next
10 Greenwich street, occupied ny
Llnisnys type foundry. The floor
was saturated with oil, which fed the
flames generously.
a murmur ran through the throng
~ they thought Of the fate ~ the occti-
pants Of the ruined and burning part
Of the building. When n full force OF
ffemcn ut last got TO work they soon
checked the flames.
HORRIBLE coSJEcIuREs
now began 10 he circulated regarding
the probable number Of Injured In the
runs. The workmon, clerks and
othen Of the ncighb0rhood generally
get lunch about the hour tho ncci-
dent happened. ON the ground floor
Of No. ~ there was 4 cheap restaurant,
In which II was thought there were
about twenty-five persons when the
accident happened. In tho upper por.
ton of the building there was a large
number OF persons employed. II IA
not known how many were employed
In the building, but II was thought
probable that most Of those employed
there were In the building at tho time
ofihe accident.
For two hours the only subject OF
inquiry by those who thronged the
streets was ~ TO how many were killed
OF injured.
II was fully two hours before the fire
could be- sufficiently subducd 10 allow
the ilremen ~ make tho least effort 10
txtficate tho dead and wounded from
the ruins. The number Of dead was
varlously estimated at from my TO two
hundred.
Policeman Peck, .who got into the
kitchen under the restaurant through
Aplumblng shop, said he hauled three
bodies from there and that In the base
ment he saw Mt least atty bodies, dead
aud wounded.
Dominick Burke, the cook employed
In the restaurant, escaped from the
kitchen. lie said there were i've persons
busy ut work In the kitchen when
there was great crash. at seemed ms
iitherc WAS whole building falling
about us,n he said, "but none Of us
were hurt. There was door from the
basement Into No. 10, but II was closed
knocked II down, and the others fol-
lowed mo out. We cmwled through
m opening In the wall, which had
partly fallen"
Policeman Peck was near the build.
lug when the explosion occurred. He
nn 10 the scene and found the building
WRECKED AND BuRsISG FiERcELY
He said, 81 saw nothing could be don,
from the front, and with one Of the
hfumen went through n basement on
Greenwich street. With hooks, bar
and axes we made hole through the
wall VI the wrecked building, through
which we took three Of the omploye,
from the Kitchen OF the restaurant
We could see others fast In the ruins
but could not assist them, belng pre-.
vented by the smoke and ilamos."
Jacob Schleainger, employed In {
building ON the opposite side OF the
street, said there must have been nj
least 100 peraons In the building whei
the explosion occurred. lie saw 4
dozen or more girls Mt the windows o
one OF the offices on tho third llOol
lust ~ the building fell.
various persons who were In th,
neighborhOOd VI the ruined building
when the accident occurred give nc
counts Of the scene at the time tho wal
iell. They saw one or more persons
Who were undoubtedly killed or In
yuted. The persons seen were In dir
iefent parts OF the building, accordinl
70 The portion Of the street on which
tho observer stood.
~. A. stohn, formerly employed By
Llber a Was,
SAW THE CRASH,
81 know most Of the mon employe,
There" said he, sand recognized Oni
o. thenl, Louis Barnard, " he fell int
The street with the wall lie drOppe,
with n shower OF bricks from the fourth
story. When he struck the ground II,
scrambled TO his feet aud got away, bu
a snow at the hospital injured. saw
many otheis go down when the from