The evening world., 1893-11-02
MANY People Injured by the
Falling Walls and the
Flying Debris.
THIRTY HORSES IN THE RUINS.
Fire Adds to the Horror
Engineer Had No License
to Run the Engine.

A boiler explosion, awful in its con-
sequences of death and destruction
startled the people for a mile around
Avenue 3 and Fourteenth street, and
shook the foundations of the buildings
of that neighborhood. at n little after
/ o'clock this afternoon.
The report of the explosion was like
that of forty thunderclaps at once. The
force of the explosion blew out forty
feet of the front wall of the three-story
brick stable and repair shops of the
Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery
Street Car Company. lifted off the fiat,
asphalted roof and let 1t and its heavy
timbers fall again.
A dozen men were buried beneath the
ruins Of the building, and thirty horses
found their tomb under the wreck.
Almost the entire bulk of a boiler was
hurled across Fourteenth street as If
1t was a pebble. and the three tons of
iron and the bricks. timbers and other
debris accompanying 1t crushed in the
fronts OF six stores in the fve-story
tenement hive opposite the scene OF the
explosion.
The flying masses of iron, brick and
llioNt Gu a " ''N'' N'''''r 'NS
men outright and inJurlng a dozen
others.
Fireman James ]. Henry, who lives
In the neighborhood, sent in two alarms
of fire, and before Rev. Father Kelly
could turn on his staircase half a block
away and reach the scene of death and
devastation the tiremen were there doing
what they could to put out the fire that
l-l ,.,tnl L., tho rstt,G a nd in ~ rims
for the dead and injured.
The work was slow and tedious. Four
men had met their death by burial in
the ruins and two had been killed ia
the street by the flying boiler and its
setting of bricks.
Lists of the dead and injured follow:
LIST OF THE DEAD,
JAMES ARMSTRONG, engineer, killed
in the building.
JOSEPH QUINN, t%hirtyr.fve years
Identified by his aunt Mrs. Benson.
years old, of $50 East Fourteenth street,
ouy Gounu III halIwdy OF Rum Sd
THOMAS HAssEN. married, of 43i
East Fourteenth street, body taken TO
SOC East Fourteenth street, killed by
flying piece of boiler.
ILLlAM RUlAL, larnp-tender, died
at Bellevue Hospital,
JOHN GILLESPIE, tifty-ive years
old, hostler. Body found in ruins of 50;
East Fourteenth street, with Il live
horse on top.
LIST OF INJURED.
PATRICK sHEEHAN, twenty-sever
years Old, married car-dr!ver, OF, 81
East Fifteenth street, fractured skull
taken to BELLEVUE Hospital;
CHARLES BRESLAt, twenty-seNer
years old, married, stableman, 246 First
avenue, compound fracture of the skull
taken TO Bellevue Hospital.
old, married, stableman, $50 East SIX.
thigh; taken to Relleyue Hospital.
MIcH Ia nRES NAN t~%Mi"'MX, 6hrSC
street, contusions of face and body
taken to Bellevue Hosnital,
GEORGE l.. MARITIME, thtrty-twc
teenth street, confusion of both legs
taken to Bellevue Hospital;
WILLIAM EGAN, aged twenty-tiye
of 23S Avenue \, laborer, bruised about
body and fractured rib. taken to Gouve'
THoMHs POWELL, forty-ntne year:
old, Of !b SECOND avenue, mechanic
taken to New York Hospital,
John PETERS. 5Si Eas' FOurteeHtt
street, leg broken and bruised about
ANNE GALLAGHER, seven years
- ~ -H@'
bruised.
Cress. bruised by flying debris.
Mrs. SOLDINGER, OF 5i East Four
teenth street bruises.
JOHN RUHLE, saloon-kecper at 50
East Fourteenth street; badly bruised.
MICHAEL MCDONALD, single, TWEEN,
weight years old, of jli East sixteenth
street, compound fracture of the lowe
bones OF both legs: at Bellevue Hospital
The two killed in the street were
Thomas Hasscn, of iSl East Fourteenth
street, and Samuel McMullen. Of 50
East Fourteenth street.
They, In company with n half doZeI
conductors and drivers, were about L
enter the little saloon OF John Ruhl
which occupies the holf-store NJ No, 50
Fast Fourteenth street.
The flying boiler knocked one OF then
into the front Of the saloon ana tn
other into the hallway that separate
Ruhl's place from John Peters's grocery