New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-03
THE BOILER BLOWN ACROSS 1iTH-ST.

the men killed the engineer, whose care"
lessness must have caused the explosion. The
bodies OF two other men were blown clear
across Fourteenth-st from the building where
they had been at work. Part Of the exploded
boiler also took flight across the street, and
broke down the front wall of a fve-story tene-
ment-house Firemen and policemen were sum.
moned To the scene Of the explosion, and there
was a general call for amDuances. Injured
removed to hospitals with as much
haste as possible, while the firemen made a
search for bodies in the ruins. Two of the In
jurcd men believed to he dying when they
were removed to Bellevue Hospital. About
thirty horses in the wrecked building were
killed by the explosion or were injured so badly
that it was necessary to shoot them to put
them out Of misery.
Last evening the appended list Of the dead
and injured persons had been obtained:
TIE DEAD.
ARMSTRONG John aged shiry;tour the engineer St 70
have been Killed instantly aud body supposed
to BE- IN thc wreck OF tho building. lie had wife
ss and 's s ats e'"se"
+ Jcn % ho'c sixty H, ysars S the 'a arcS E
Suildlns ms body found under those q s,s" ~:
St'e s sad"sakc @ ya So od T Eas 'P fo%rt eat, lie
had a family at No. 0i0 East siA;eeath-st
"tsshs Iss%' s:Ssa ;ss, S
the street i s. E found in the asnay vita Si the the head
Sr"'hed "iif into "a sSspeics sI less 4ass home So
as East III, BODY ,% %Is r%TSya wbe he 20 wa
iSrnS iniSrmsd Of the Sr'cs scdent
s2%%e s S aS ra ana 'Sorr % & fHy III SeaSs hs
III ,S body os ws' SS eos SO to H. ne had Sp'S Soaa
carried to the shop Of Maxcy Brothers
QUINN Patrick a-ed twenty-five. hostlcr VINO lived ~
Fast :, Fen Mil H. 'H Sody wa to aSfa oaad "a Il.
wrr"Eaee az the rear OF the building oni was carried
to the undcrtakers shop
THE INJURED
BRENNAN Michael aged twcntE'hre, lsooT ,snN ips ts
Bellevue Hospital.
rREsLIN Charles aged twcay-ey@n ,cc@,p ,a Kau
Taken tc''1 to Bellevue Hospital.
EAAN VILLAIN aged c, tTSDyy Of ribs aSd body brni.ed
/ Taken t. oiou,eneur Hospital.
ss. ss'G adsn S ~ s sss 3! Ss so & Ea:
wounds treated by ambulance surgeon a her nome
GAhAEE NH Ms' knssd asS 'Gg d1n "' By nyas bc
ambulance surgeon home.
sSa srs S* ss at aS SS to S'G ncesac ,'
iS"s pM Ga at ASS No 81 roa Ea' to SIH sc"1 Hope.
MAMTSr K assa IS; fS., tsyiTS ysSsc. s1F dFSS cc1
m.ss nIsSs aDons oaaS head % and body Bellevue
rowLL TnOma aged lCryniNc %SSnaIiI ca"S ,Tr aTr'
both laws Taken to Ncw-york Ito pital.
w'q s F ss s% @a .ous ae.Srsi
.kuiI Taken to Bellevue Hospital
IL Fontc1h.t n % hip severely bruised BY walls crushing
into his barroom.
sEanN I'D Ming ra:S at &c. @S 5S fS ttcehs actursS
skull. Taken to Bellevue Hospital
rysrspEcTING MEN At THEIR WORK.
1t was nine minutes after p. IN. when the
roar Of the explosion heard. and there
would have been much longer list Of dead
and injured If the explosion had occurred nine
minutes earlier. Many children who attended
the parochial school of the Church of the Im-
maculate Conception. near by. were playing In
Fourteenth-st. in front of the stables until
they were called into their classrooms at I
D. m Car No 23S Of the Dry Dock and East
Broadway line, and of the Belt line met
in front of the stables In Fourteenth-st few
minutes later George MARITIME. the driver OF
the former car. stopped to change horses. while
the other car passed into Avenue b. out of
danger. MARITIME went into the stables. leav.
ing the conductor and passenger in his
car In the three-story building No. 535 East
! Fourteenth-st, adjoining the main stables, sew.
eral men were at work. John Armstrong. the
/ engineer, was attending to the machinery which
| elevated grain and ground IL into horse-feed
on the top floor The boiler which furnished
the power was the ground floor. in the mid
die of the building. Hassen and McMullen
were shovelling grain near the entrance. In
front OF the boiler Gillespie. Quinn. Royal and
other men were feeding horses the second
floor. or handling grain in the mill on the top
floor.
FUN AND DEATH COME HAND IN HAND
Suddenly. without the least warning the ems
tire building was shattered. With a roar like
the reports OF dozen cannon mingled in one.
the boiler. eighteen feet long and five feet In
diameter, was rent asunder The forward half
of the big Iron tube. with the fregrate and
furnace. went through the front wall of the
building like a shot. and, crossing the street in
mid-air struck against the front of the five
story tenement house No. 534 East Fourteenth
st. 1t made deep dent in the house, knocked
down the front wall below the third floor, and
fell on the sidewalk with the shower OF bricks
and broken glass. At the same moment the
other half Of the boiler, torn In dozen places
was flung back to the wall of the doomed
building. The floors and roof Of the building
fell In, shapcless ruin, carrying down the mes