The evening world., 1893-10-12

generating electrical power Tor the run
ming, of l3j trolley cars on Atlantic.
Washington, Fifth and seventh avenues
and the other lines OF the Company. re-
quircd the cooperation OF three Of these
engines.
Nos. 2, 3 and 4 have been performing
tho work with W. H.. Goodwin as Chief
Engineer. and John Caplis. of 379Sevonth
street. brooklyn. as Assistant Engineer.
Each engine has a driving wheel of ten
spokes. The wheel is % feet in diameter.
Tho tire Of inches wide. Each spoke is
Is inches wide and . inches thick, of hol-
low iron. The wheel weighs 1900
pounds.
A belt 30 inches wide runs 20 feet and
over another wheel known as the gen
orator wheel. This wheel Is Z feet in
diameter and 3 feet wide. 1t weighs
. 900 pounds II connects with the
electrical generators "A few feet away.
The big driving-wheels are gauged for
eighty-two revolutions a minute. but
evidently the governor had got out OF
order last night, and the speed of the
machine had been very much increased.
How much, no one can tell.
Assistant Engineer 'ap'is. was in
charge, and there were n dozen men
at work In the powcr-house, when sud
denly. at go O'Clock. there came" IA re-
port louder than a clap Of thunder, n
cannonade and IA collapse of IA building
combined.
The engineer. standing beside his en-
CINE, vas hurled back against another;
the roof lifted and tn" sides of the build
ing Tor a space OF twenty lttl vanished.
The engine, big wheel, generator wheel
and all We're gone when the engineer re-
covered himself.
They, had hurst simultaneously and
carried away the walls and the roof.
After "A moment there were heard
other crashes in distant places.
Just across the canal, forty yards
away. was u long story-and-a-half tene-
mrnt in the rear Of 4Gi to az Carroll
street. 1t was Il frame" house, and four
families had their humble homes there.
Mrs. Ann kCCgan lay on a couch In
her parlor, the furthest side Of the
house. Sh" was nursing her baby. Her
husband. James, had not yet returned To
the supper that steamed on the little
stove in the kitchen, and her other four
children had gone To night school.
suddenly there came a soun like all
the thunder in III" heavens above, and
then "A crash as II the house was being
smashed, and then the brick partition
between the kitchen and parlor cavcd in
D and the couch WIS covered all about
the mother and babe with broken bricks
and plaster,
At the same moment Mrs. Jane Mar,
shall, wife OF George Marshall, living
In n" nest apartment, 80. i6+, left he,
coffee In tn" Kitchen and stepped To tn,
front d""r to call her three little ones
in to supper.
n 1t. vas lucky she al, for where sh.
" sat by the tahl" the remains Of a chat
shattered into kinlliHE wood tx hcapc,
. W with plsstcr, brick and wood. an,
4 in the midst OF it an is embedded a plat,
ll'lll Wv must ~ Nht'l Ntlkllllk no
:. less than 600 pounds.
\ similar piece had done the damag
n N Mrs. k""gan'S rooms. III" twp
/ pieces had flown across the canal am
the back yard, and striking the root
one on either side Of the house, ha,
crashed through 1t, through the floor o
8 the sleeping rooms above, through tn
ceiling and through the brick partition
as II there had been nothing but pape
there.
e They carried bcdstcads. bedding. was
stands and other belongings with then
b and In both houses smashed the TN
cooking stoves on which supper had JUS
been prepared.
Both homes are total wrecks TODAY
Bureaus, tables, chairs. couchcs, stove
!, and al. other articles OF furniture ar
smashed into splinters Of wood and IroI
and all the belongings OF the Keegan
and the Marshalis are ht only for IN
dumping ground.
..Neighbors rushed in and found Mr.,
"a keegan unconscious. Her baby was IN
hurt, but the mother was nesped u
h with bricks and plaster on The couci
She had several bad cuts and t,uise
IN her head n bod. and MAS take