The evening world., 1893-10-12

ming, OF 1875 trolley cars on Atlantic.
Washington, Fifth n Seventh avenues
and the other lines Of the Company. re-
quired the cooperation of three of these
engines.
Nos. Q. 3 and 4 have been performing
tho work with W. II, Goodwin as Chief
Engineer, and John Caplis, of 379Seventh
street, Brooklyn. az Assistant Engineer.
Each engine has a driving wheel of ten
spokes. The wheel is 20 feet In diameter.
Tho tire 80 inches wide. Each spoke IL
low iron. The wheel weighs 1900
pounds.
a belt 30 inches wide runs 30 feet and
over another wheel known as the gen
orator wheel, This wheel is 5 feet in
diameter and 3 feet wide. 1t weighs
5000 pounds and connects with the
electrical generators n few feet away.
The big driving-wheels are gagged for
cighty.two revolutions a minute, but
machine had been very much increased.
How much, no one can tell.
Assistant Engineer caplis was in
charge, and there were a dozen men
at work In the power-house. when sud
denly, at 80 o'clock. there came n re-
port louder than II clap of thunder. IL
~cannonade and IA collapse OF Il building
combined.
The engineer. standing beside his en-
Gine, was hurled back against another
the roof lifted and the sides OF the build
NIX " u Flbltf VI twenty lttl NdIlSllt'N.
rh. engine, big wheel. generator wheel
and all were gone when the engineer re-
covered himself.
They had burst simultaneously and
carried away the walls and the roof.
AFTER Il mom"nt there We're heard
other crashes In distant places.
lust across the canal. forty yards
away, was IA long story-and-u-hair tenc-
ment in the rear of i6i to Az Carroll
street. 1t was "A frame house. and four
families had their humble homes there.
Mrs Ann ksesan lay on a couch in
her parlor, the furtheSt side OF the
house. She Was nursing her baby. Her
husband, james, had not yet returned To
tn" supper that steamed on the little
stov" in tn" kitchen, and her other four
children had gou" To night school.
suddenly Their" cam" a sound like all
tn" thund r. In tn" heavens above. and
then "A crash as il the house was being
smashed, and then the brick partition
between tn" kitchen and parlur cavrl I'm
ana tn" couch whs covered all about
IN" mother and babe with broker bricks
and plaster.
Al the same moment Mrs. Jane Mar.
shall. wifi" Of George Marshall. living
In the next apartment, No. ~. left her
Eon"" In tn" kitchen AMI stepped to the
front door t" call her three little ones
in To supper.
II Was lucky she did. for where she
sat by tn" table the rrmatns OF "A chair
shattered into ktniling wood Is heapc,
~ win plaster, brick and wood, and
N the midst ot It all is embedded a plate
nom IN" burst ~hS-wheel weighing not
less than co pounds.
\ similar piece had lone the damag,
~ Mrs ke"ean's rooms. The two
pieces mad Gown across the canal and
th- back yard, ana striking the roof,
one on either sid" 0f the house. hai
Crashed through D. through the Moor OF
the sleeping rooms above, through IN
ceiling and through ~" brick partition
as y there had been nothing but paper
there.
They carried b~d,'esls bedding vast
stands and Dthsi belongings with them
aud 90 both houses sws shed the tiny
cooking stoves on winch supper had iusr
beer prepared.
Both homes are total wrecks TODAY
bureaus tables. "heirs Dpuchrs. stove.
ana an other articles u' furniture ar,
-maSh"o lul" ~spllu',f. ~ wood ami iron
an1 all 'HS helrnglnss Of the k,csan,
snd a." Marrnalls are ut only FOR III,
dumping ground
He,gnb"Ts rushed ~ au1 found Mrs
h"'gan unconscious Her baby was un
hurt, but the mother wa ae4psl u,
with bricks and plaster on the coufh
She had several bad cuts and e;uise
on her hsad and body. and was takei