The evening world., 1893-10-12

ming OF 1875 trolley cars on Atlantic,
Washington. Firth and seventh avenues
and the other lines of the Company. re-
CURED the cooperation of three OF these
engines.
Nos. 2, 3 and 4 have been performing
tho work with w. II. Goodwin as Chief
street. brooklyn. as Assistant Engineer.
Each engine has a driving wheel of ten
spok,s. The wheel is 20 feet in diameter.
The tire SO inches wide. Each spoke is
Is inches wide and 9 inches thick, of hol-
low iron. The wheel weighs 900
pounds.
A belt 20 inches wide runs 30 feet and
over another wheel known as the gen
diameter and 5 feet wide. 1t wcirhs
Gcm pounds and connects with the
The big driving wheels are gagged for
eighty-two revolutions a minute, hut
evidently tho governor had got out of
order last nisht. and the speed Of the
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
port loude than n clap Of thunder, II
%cannonade and n collapse OF a building
combined.
The engineer. standing beside his en-
ginc. was hurled back against another;
the roof lifted and the sides of the build
Ing for a space OF twenty feet vanished.
ne engine, nle Wlttl, generator Nilhhi
and all were gone when the engineer re-
covered himself.
They. had burst sim%ulta neouslv and
carried away the walls and the root,
After "A moment there were heard
other crashes In distant places.
Just across the canal, forty yards
away, was "a long story-nnd-a-half tcnc.
mcnt In the rear OF 46i to 472 Carroll
street. 1t Was "A frame house, and q
families had their humble homes there.
Mrs Ann kregin lay on a couch In
her parlor. the furthrst side OF the
house, She was nursing her baby. Her
husband, James, had not yet returned to
the supper that steamed on the little
stove In the kitchen, ana her other four
children had pOn" to night school,
suddenly ther" cam" a sound like all
the thunder In the heavens above, and
then a crash as II the house, was being
smashed. and then III" brick partition
between the kitchen and parlOr Cavcd in
and the couch WAS covered an about
the mother and babe with broke bricks
At tn same moment Mrs Jane Mar
shall. wife Of George Marshall, living
In the next apartment, No "a, left her
coffee In the Kitchen ana stepped 20 the
front door - call her three little ones
IN 70 supper
II wat rucky she did. for where she
sat by the table 'I' remains OF "A chair
SHATTERED into F'nullur wood Is hcaped
~ Win plaster brick amt wood, and
~ N" midst ~ u al b, embodied Il plate
from "a" burst - wheel Weighing not
'N .ffNF W. t''"'
a s,mi,ai piece rad done the damage
~ Mr. krrgArs rooms. TIE Two
pieces had tiywu across ~" canal and
the back yard, and striking N, roof
II- on either side Of the house. had
crashed through II. through the floor OF
, The sleeping room, above. through IN,
ceiling and through %" hr,ch partition
- II there had been nothing but PAPER
th'T"
They carried D"dsteads. bedding wasi
= stands and other belonging vim them
.#i4. l# bF't houses smashed the tlnN
npuking stoves On which supper had JUS
Ju"u prepare.
Both homes are total wrecks to-day
= bureaus. tables. chairs ,u4Ches, stove!
ana all other articles Of furniture at.
' smashed into spiiutors u wood and iron
and all the belongings of the Eeegau,
and the MarshalIs are III only for th'
dumping ground
NrlghUOrs rushed In and found Mrs
kcegan unconscious, Her baby was un
hurt, but the mother VAS aelped "a
with bricks and plaster on The couch
She had several bad cuts and ttulse
2. On her head and body. and Was take