The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-02
The PARK PLACE HORROR.
SIGHTS kT T2G SCENE CT
The CATAST TROPHE.

Der of Mems Bodies Found Under Ooe
Press--A Group of Girls ard 4 Boy Dis
covered In Another Place.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-It now seems
POSSIBLE that one of the worst !ata. ac-
cidents which has ever happened in this
city occurred just after noon today.
From al that can be learned, tnlly as
rlanv if not more than fifty people Rave
lost their lives. The accident came so
sudden that it was impossible foi the
occupants of the two big buildings at
20 and y Park Place to escape from the
buildings before the collapse was com
plete. There was but one eyewitness TO
the accident, y: \. Johnson, Janltcr IN
the building at 81 Park Place, across the
street from where the accident occurr-
ed. He said that be was standing or the
steps to 81 when he heard the sound OF
an explosion. 1t came from across the
street. II was not loud. Almost I'M
mediately the front wall Of the two
buildings collapsed and the entire build.
ing cayed in with deafening crash. 1t
came so suddenly that it was impossible
for living soul 10 escape from the
buildings. On the ground floor OF ooe
of the numbers was a restaurant that
was crowded with people. The other
floors were occupied by a metal plate
factory; the Southern Publishing COM
panv; 5. Loutel & Co., art designers
Ellis s. Mcdonald, bOokblnders, and
other establishments.
Michael Carroll, who was employed IN
the metal leaf factory, had been out to
lunch and had just reached the door OF
Y when he heard the explosion. Wllch
dazed him for a moment. lie Jumped
up and ran for life. AS he got away
the front walls of 20 and y topples ov-
er with a loud crash. As the walls fell
Carroll saw many people passing the
place were covered under the brick and
Stones. 1t is not known how many girls
were at work in the metal plate 1ac;ory,
but there were g. large number. ln the
restaurant on the ground floor Of No Y,
which was kept by }. Peterson, crowd
of people We're at lunch the number
being estimated at between twenty i've
and thirty. Then there was ten or
twelve girls in the wash room in the
basement. Tripp & Co., druggists, in
the building also had a large numDer OF
employees. Three children OF FRANK
IIaggerty, janitor of 81 Park Place, Eere
playing In front OF y Park Place. They
were killed. Their father stood across
the street at the time Roundsman ray
| lor WAS on his way to dinner, passing
along Park Place, when he heard tbs: eX-
ploslon. He ran TO the scene and reSliz-
| ing that something must be done, ran to
hardware store on Vosey street, secur-
ed dozen axes and distributed them to
the Grenen who had already arrived.
The tiremen and bystanders soon cut
hole in the side wall Of a, out Of Walch
seventeen persons crawled, all OF whom
bore bruises. The testimony OF ali the
people who were in the neighborhood at
the time is that they were first startled
by deep rumhling sound of an eHp!o-
sion, which was directly followed b. the
collapse of the building, the wal! OF
which fell outward with trigLtful
crash. Three alarms OF fire Were 1cl-
lowed by the arrival of the ambnlanceS
from all the hospitals. The reserves
were called out from nearly all station
houses, but the greatest difficulty was
experienced in keeping the thousands
of people back beyond the ire ines
when it became known that there had
Leen fearful loss OF life.
New YORK, Aug. 24.-The woik of
looking for the dead in the ruins OF
Park Place continued uninterrupted
through the night except at times when
rain poured down in such torrent as 10
render labor beneath it impossible. EX-
cept at these times also the ilre lines az
either end of the block were lined Win
waiting friends or relatives OF the MISS
ing. When they were driven FROM the
streets by tie rain they sought shelter
in doorways or wherever protectloE
might be found, but as soon as 1t ceased
their weary and mourntul vigil was re-
suued.
At355 o'clock there was bust!e Of
citrment among the worknen that IN
s1antly communicated itself TO the
eager watchers at the tirelln Another
BODY had been found. IL was that OF a
man that lay beside tangle Of presses
tho TO- 1t was taken out and placed
in one of the pine cottins on the sidewalk.
1t was terribly burned and unrecognl,,
Fable unless identity may be disclosed
bv the tattered fragment Of clotnlng
that but partially covered 1t.
The work again went on unmarked
by any accident Until o'clock this
morning, when a second body Was
found. also that of a man, near the spot
where the first was discovered. Five
minutes later the third body, also OF a
man, was found in nearly the same
place. Both were taken out and placed
in collins on the sidewalk besides that
containing the body found 1T 800
o'clock. Hardly had this been done
when the body Of another man Was
found, but it lay beneath a heavy press
and it will be impossible to move 1. un-
I'll derrick is obtained to hoist The
press from the ruins. There was al
most simultaneous discovery OF fifth
body. making twenty-one IN all, tAadr
among brick and paper at a |; WAS
hat OF large man. hut although the
face was visible, like thu othels eX:,uin-
ed, it as SunrecognlZablr. AT o clccN
Italian laborers were still at work re-
moving the tricks that buried lhe ooHy
and hindered It's removal.
From daylight on the crowd Of spc@-
tators at the fire lines gradually increi's.
ed, and at 9 o'clock Il densely packet
Thong filled every spot that command
ed the slightest view of the blAckeneu
ruins. At the office Ct the boiler llSorc
tor at police headquarters to-day 1t WAS
stated that accord ng TO the records
there the Taylor building had no s:eann
boilers OF any kind, nor had there oern
auy there Tor several years past. Inc
steam power used in it was surHll~d
from outside sources.
During the morning one Of the ltal-
iaDs working ia the RUNS stoored over
the body of one Of the victims and took
silver watch from his pocket. Tie was
arrested and taken to the station. fol-
lowed bY mob, many OF whom Shout
ed, Lynch him. Lynch him.. -.
Up TO noon the official account o. the
number OF bodies taken from the rulns
as kept by the police is tWenty-thret.
Ar that hOur there were Two bodies Wis