The evening world., 1891-12-04

People ruslhd from their offices all along
Broadway andWall street, and ran bare
headed into the sreet to learn what disaster
had happened.
Those passing In Aont OF the building, both
in broadway and \ Rector street, were
thrown violently to tn, ground by the shock.
The explosion was folowed by the sound of
crashing glass and fahng bricks. Nearly
every window in the Rectr street side of the
big building was blown out Here and there
the entire sash and part Of the mas onry
had been forced outward b the pressure
from within and came crashing TO the side
walks.
On the Broadway side the widows hao
also been blown out and the whos building
was enveloped in a thick cloud OF wite dust,
which poured from all the windys and
doors.
FEARS THAT MANY WERE KILLED.
For few moments everybody was stunned.
Then there was a rush for the building, hr 1t
was evident that frightful damage had ben
done and that many persons had been hlkd
or seriously injured.
In less than five minutes after the expo.
sion had occurred Broadway and the othe
streets In the vicinity were packed from curl
to curb with q seething, struggling mass O
excited humanity.
AN ALARM TURNED IN.
In the panic which had ensued everybody
seemed to have forgotten the Fire Depart
ment, and 1t was some moments before al
alarm was sent out.
THE EXPLOSION IN RUSSELL sAGE's OFFICE.
Then there was a cry that Russell Sage.
ofice had been blown up by n dynamit,
bomb, and that Mr.. sage and oil his clerk
had perished in the explosion.
WASHINGTON cosSoRs OFFICE BURNED.
washington Z. Connor's oflcc is Gext doc
to sages Office on the second floor OF tn,
building, while the executive Offices OF tn,
Manhattan Elevated Railroad are on the sam,
floor, but in the rear.
Judging from the appearance OF the outsid,
of the building, both sage's and Connor!
Offices had been completely wrecked, and tha
any one could have escaped from them aliv,
seems almost miracle.
,NIC-sTRICKEN AND BRUISED TENANTS.
The first Information the gathe ring GROVE
outside OF the building received OF the exten,
OF the disaster was when several oirice-hod
ers came crushing out with pallid faces. some
OF them bruised and bleeding and covered
with dust and dirt, so that they were scarcel,
recognizable.
SAID SAGE AND CoNNoR WERE KILLED.
One man said as he fell into the arms Of
policeman:
"My God The whole building is in ruins.
Mr.. Sage and Mr.. Connor and all their clerk,
are dead"
He tainted before he could say any more
Some OF the people made their way upstairs
to the second fioor
Mr.. Sages orrice, which is at the head of tn,
stairs, was completely wrecked. Not bi
OF plaster remained on the wall or ceiling ant
the partitions had been smashed like paper
The mangled bodies OF two or three human
beings were lying in the ruins.
RUSSELL sAGE's INJURIES.
Mr.. sage was found terribly bruised ant
blinded, but alive. He and his brother-in-law
COZ. slOcum, who was also badly hurt, were
carried over to o'Connell's pharmacy, on the
opposite side OF Broadway.
Several other persons were carried out o
the building to the same place, more or less
injured.
Their names could not be learned, and they
were too badly hurt to give an account OF
themselves.
POLICE TO THE RESCUE.
Capt, Mclaughlin was at the scene Of the