The evening world., 1894-05-02
-FOUR GIRLS ARE MISSING.
And Four Other Employees Are
Badly Burned and Taken
to Hospitals.
MANY LEAP FOR THEIR LIVES.
Benzine and Naphiha Explode,
Scattering Death and
Destruction.

There was sn explosion, followed by
fire, at 2 o'5clock this afternoon in the
securing and dyeing establishment Of
c. Jally & Son, III East Twelfth street
One man and one were burned
to death. four others were badly burn
ed and four are missing. The dead arss'
cHENAw. forty years old. sddrsss
JOSEPHINE TLooRMAN. forty-two ysars 90,
OF Sixth street. near Fisst avenue.
LEON BoNDoIR and two others vhoss Names
'' JEAN al BAIT BSrTis FIJI Rt K d; X!oS;a; !; s sS:ss ",
REPORTED MIssIN0.
-Four YOUNG women whose aamss the poliss
The explosion was In the basemsns a
the building. which Is 1--WE stories high.
In the basement benzoine and other In
fiammabls liquids used in securing ana
dyeing wer stored.
A few minutes after Q o'clock persons
in the neighborhood, which adjoins the
corner buildings on Broadway, heard 9
terrific explosion, which shook mauy a
the surrounding buildings. ~
When they rushed to the street they
saw flames bursting from nearly all OF
building wa built of oil and gunpowdsr,
SO rapid was the spread of the flames.
two persons with their clothes afiams
and two others, also burning, dropped
from the second-story window.
Policeman Thomas Gill turned in
second as soon as the frst engine ar
rived.
DIR. w. s. Whitman, a surgeon Of the
First Regiment OF the National Guar
way at Twelfth street with his wife
when the explosion occurred. When he
looked around he raw people In flames
y did not "A the doctor and his
wife long to act. Bystanders had sx-
tinguished the fire in the clothes Of the
taken quickly to the drug store at 81
Fourth Yen
Meanwhile his wife turned in an am
b%ulance call TO St, Vincent's Hospital.
Bellevue.
Ohter than the persons whose clothes
we're an'me. the people who had rushed
body leave the burning building. and the ,
cry went up that nearly all Of the forty
or fifty persons working In the building
had persisted.
The spectators wer in error. People
VINO work In. places where benzine and
liquids are used In considerable
quantities know their danger.
building. causing every. floor to yibrats
as though about to fall. the employees,
most of whom wer on the fourth hoor.
Ned for their lives.
There was no use to rush to the front
OF the building, for from the windows
there was a sheer descent OF forty feet
10 the stone pavement and no hre-es-
capes.
They remembered that a two-story
building Joined Jolley's In the q
Most OF the men and women ran down
fights OF stairs and climbed out
upon this extension. from which they
were able to make their way Into the
window of a Broadway
store.
Several became panic-stricken when
they reached the third floor and heard
the roaring OF the flames. as though
from II mighty, angry urnace. beneath
them. and jumped from the rear vim
OF the third floor to the seconds
story extension. None OF these. so far
could be learned, va injured.
After making their escape the men
and women. all of whom were French,
ran frantically about. sobbing and cry
ing in search OF trends and acquaint-
anCeS.
The Arm of C. Jolly & Son IL one OF
the Oldest in the dyeing business In this
city. 1t has branch establishments AZ
East Twenty-third street. SIC F1ftA
avenue and 1903 Columbus avenue.