The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-23

ing Ga fhe bent.
Erw Yorx. August % AT f290 O'Clock this
afternoon au oly'osion occurred IN the nyc
s.or, building, 30. 90 Pork Place occupied
hv Tohu O. Ehorlo. manufacturer ot maps
Thee explosion was immediately followed w
fire and in ~ tew iuutes the building col
larseL Ineh "a spread quickly to the saIo'u-
inc buildings and soon FIVE o them were IN
flames At the time OF the explosion many OF
those who worked in the building were at
lunch. II was estimated that more than liO
bows. girls. men and women were IN the
building at the time.
Those who saw the catastrophe say the
earth trenbled when the explosion occurred
and that the fire Was 10 the street ID coupe
OF seconds. The dust from the wreck rose III
such clouds that for ~ lenst three minutes
nothing could be seen q what WAS lett stand
ing. but in the pail which lowered over the
wrecked building came clouds of smoke ana
sheets Of flame and yells and sAfieAs OF
agony.
RUSH FOR LIFR.
Out Of the clouds of FIRE and smoke half %
dozen persons emerged while IN the siX-story
building on the northeast corner Of Green
wch street and Park Place poured AZ least 100
working people OF both soxes and All agos nj
tering cries Of alarm When the Dremen
arrived the Taylor building. Nos SO to 20
Park Place was ablaze and the Greenwlch-
street extension of the building was on fre.
A general alarm was sounded and the fire
men looked around % see If life could be
saved Close % the entrance Of 10 Park
place and pinned under q lot Of masonry,
was man whose head gnd shoulders We're
visible While the firemen were endeayorng
10 uulO0se him n crash was heard above ana
down ia the wreck came part OF the lEyi'f
building cornice. The fremen jumped Tor
their lives and none were hurt. When they
dashed back again the man had been entirely
buried. and tho bricks IN the Greenwich
street building began 10 fall 80 thckly tlat
the attempt 10 rescue him had 20 be aban-
dOned.
THE FIRE UNDEB CONTROL.
Shortly after this man who said he was
nm engineer crawlcd out Of the cellar under
the wreck and fell exhausted. Ho was sent
10 the Chambers-stTeet Hospital. lie was una
ble 10 give an account Of how he escaped At
/ O'Clock the FIRE was under control. Halt oi
tie Greenwich-stroet building had been
burned while the Taylor building was o
coruuiete wreck The losses were computed
at si5O. 900 for the Taylor building aud con
tents and $4,000 for the Greenwich-street
building As 20 tho loss of life the more
conservative estimate. that OF tre-Chlei
Cushman. was that sixty persons pershed.
Persons who know how many worked III the
building daily ran up the list 10 one hundred
and thirty. Nobody had been taken out at
100 and il appeared impossible TO overhaul
the ruins for several hours. Eight persons
Injured by the explosion were taken 10 the
Chambers street hospital. Among the con-
Germs DESTROYED were, hndsons restaurant
Iindsav's type-foundry. EFF. Heaghys plumb
ing shops, liebler's glassware store tliN az
NcDonald's blank book and binding concern,
q cigar mandatory and printing Office.
LITTLE CHANCE OF EscAPE.
There were about twenty-five persons in the
restaurant Mike Carroll. who was employed
At ga Park Place, SAYS that there Is very little
chance Of any OF them escaping. Ihere were
seven men employed III the Kitchen.
end Carroll saws they must have been
killed. He also saw four girls WORK
inc in the basement, mixing bronze,
and does not think they could have got
out. Carroll saw seven persons passing the
building ST the time Of the explosion ana al
vera knocked down by the shock before
thsv recovered the walls fell on them. and no
thinks they were killed. Some other occupants
of the building were hosenleld a %
metal and leaf manufacturers, the oontn-
ern Publishing Company, art designers Eills
&McDOnaid bOOk-binders.
II ia said by some that the explosion 90
CURED in Roeenfeld place
ONLY -FOUR PERSONS ESCAPED.
Only fonr persons are known 10 have escaped
from Hudsors restaurant. There were at
least twenty-five ia the place. At j; NJ. the
police estimated the loss Of lie al between
sixty and seventy. one OK those VINO es-
csnSd said the explosion was boiler beneath
the restaurant. IL is said that several factory
girls are among the dead. The Ninth-hyenuo
elevated railroad stopped running ana tho
freuen worked upon the structure III pouring
stream upon thahre. 49,,
The work of removing the debris IN the
f-r he. h,f OWING
to the heat of the bricks. ,,
Two little girls and one little boy, children
of Frank Hosghy who kept plumbing snop
IN the building, wer0 pIaying II the street
The debris from tho roof fell on tue ch.4dreh
and they we're killed instantly
BuBy1No THE DEAD.
AT about 4 o'clock solemn procession
formed down At the corner or 0reenWich
street and Park Place 1t was formed II po-
Icernen who carried white pine collins on
tbeir shoulders. and the city's hearse brought
nm tbe rear. At 1850 O'Clock the men en-
Moved in searching for the bodies discovered
Two bodies in front of No 10. They had con
adorable trouble in reaching them as they
were cropping Ia the DARK, .. ,;,.,,4 an
the block. Joseph Greenbaum, a waiter EN-
plOysd in PetersOn's restaurant, says that ~
near as be can remember there were III INC
restaurant when he left only twenty-one per
soDs. He had narrow eSceEe' q yT';ahor 4,
clerk employed in the Office OF Leoer AZ
Mass. said that there were forty, men EN-
ployed in the press room OF the
and as far rs re could learn none OF them es-
capped except Cuno Schmidt. the foreman.
At6o'clock. where the ruins bad been cool
sd and the flames deadened. Assistant fore;
man NJ. H. Slevin. of hook and ladder D aua
amember of the same company. taxing TWO
lanterns. effected an entrance by sin"H
opening into the cellar.
SEARCHING FoR 1HE DoDiKs.
Working along with difficulty and in hye
feet Of water. they, made .as thorough as G sx-