New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-07
ambulance. At that time 1t was not determined

the air got into It, the furnace fires set the mass
from the bindery ablaze and the wreckers were
| driven back by smoke through which, from
time to time, came muffled cries for help. The
! firemen worked heroically. and streams
! turned on the blaze soon checked the fire. SO
that a gang OF 200 laborers who had been col
lected could get into the wreckage and pull 1t
| into the street.
Charles Hackett was found In the third story
! Of the ruins in the rear, to which approach was
! had through the alley. He reported there lad
| been four or Ave girls on the floor with him. He
did not seem to be seriously injured AS the Dig
gers continued their work In front Of the wrecked
! building the upraised arm Of a man was urcov-
cred on the sidewalk not far from where four
other bodies taken out 1t was necessary 10
move huge pieces OF a stone windowsil and frag-
ments Of machinery before the body could be re-
| leased The victim had escaped the steam and
smoke. but his head was crushed into a shapeess
mass He was identified as Harry Lariviere,
Journal mailing clerk.
DEAD UNDER THE BURNING HEAP.
| Two more bodies were found at the same cor
ner, making four taken from that spot. They
presented an awful sight as the hot bricks and
smoking timbers pulled away. One was
sitting bolt upright with his back to the street
| the other was just below him and had been
| caught as he plunged headong downward
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| The other body was that OF George ShaW d
journal" clerk. Another body was found half
an hour later 1t was that OF a young man III
| blouse and overalls. and IT lay under all the
wreckage the sidewalk. A great biock OF
stone had fallen upon his head. crushing 1t nat
The seventh body apparently that OF a
| machinst. was taken from the sidewalk in front
| of the building after o'clock. and then
the workmen were driven back whiie rope
was thrown over an overhanging wall. 1t was
pulled down by a gang OF men stationed on
| building across the street.
Shortly after the rescue Of Hackett. the fire
men and citizens engaged in clearing away
! the wreckage at the rear Of the building. caught
sight of two bodies mans and girls. under
great heap of beams. boards and bricks 1t
some one said they could see the bodies NOV
ing and could hear faint means Efforts TO
reach them were redoubled, but about this
| time the fire spread to the rear or the Duidlhs'
driving the workers back. About the same
time another man was discovered below an
immense heap at another corner. He was
! shouting The workers saw him crouching In
large barrel, which was standing upright
and into which he must have fallen feet first
him, but hope failed when 1t was seen the
| flames were slowly creeping toward him. All
three had to be abandoned when the smoke
| and flames drove their helpers back.
The cause Of the explosion is mystery. Thomas
Thompson, the engineer, came out Of the wreck
| painfully injured His clothes We're half torn off
| and he bore little resemblance TO a human being
with the dirt grimed into his T. 1e and hands
and the blood running from score Of cuts
How did II happen he was asked
Great God. | don; know, was the reply. I
do not know any more about 1t than you do How
many were killed." Then he disappeared in the
crowd.
The furnaces were oil burning and the boilers
| had been inspected by the city inspector feW
| days ago. 1t will require actual examinaton ol
| the boilers to determine the responsibility.
! or the injured Cornelius George ana Annie
| O'DonoghUe are the most seriously injured, but
the physicians hope to pull them through Most
| of the injured persons were able to go TO their
| homes after having their injuries dressed.
The Rogers Typograph supply house was the
only source Of such supplies in the country for
machines When the Mergenthaler Company
| purchased the Rogers patent and factory at
this point all the machinery for making parts
having been sold to Dunlap & Co. and it is now
| all destroyed
NARROW ESCAPES FROM DEATH.
| John Lemon, a waif, had an experience as thrill
| ling that of any who escaped. A few
minutes after II o'clock he was hauled cut Of :he
ruins. There dust every inch OF his per-
sen. scratch on his cheek and slight burns on
his hands. He was trembling violently fifteen
minutes after his escape. but he had chung to his
| overcoat and hat and he could talk in d!scor-
| nected way He had started for The Journal"
| Office to a friend. but got into the wrong
| building He was on the third floor when the
crash came and bricks fell around him. He was
| dazed, but he looked for door. The floor un-
der him sank and tipped so quickly that he could
not escape. AS he went down he caught a
| glimpse of a girl running. and Of man who
| yelled Billy" After the first drop there
gradual sinking He thinks 1t was three minutes
going down. Lemon found himself rent up in a
small. dark place, with hole at one side. His
| thoughts travelled over his past life with the
| rapdity of lightning. He nearly nclosed;
| nothing was pressing on him, but he knew not
at what moment an enormous weight might
| crush him. He In Of those cavities
which exist in every collapsed building. and he
was comparatively safe If only he could get out
before the fire and smoke should come to stihe
| or him.
Il must work my way out or die" Lemon
said to himself. At that moment smoke poured
| into his small compartment, but not in such
quantities as to overcome him. 1t caused him
to look around, and he saw small hole at
his right into which he began to throw brick
long after this he heard voice below him beg
that nothing more be thrown down. 1t sounded
to him like the voice of the who called
for "Billy' at the time Of the crash. Lemon
kept at work, however enlarging the space
around him as much as possible. He had no
| idea of the time he spent In the hole. Once
in while there a slow sinking under
him. which nearly paralyzed his efforts. Once
he touched wire and N, MS hand was slightly
burned by electricity. There was an iron bar
in front Of him. TO which he cung portion
of the time. Still he labored desperately and
once he stopped to pray. when a strong hand
seized him and he was pulled out Of the hole.
man with his arms free was discovered. The
moor fellow called for water a glass Of water
was brought 10 him. but II had slight effect tow
ard revvng him. He began to fail from the ef-
fects Of the smoke. Hats were used to fan the
| smoke from his race III steHleu an age before d
saw was brought After the scantlings had been
sawed away that the rescuers could get hold OF
him his legs were so pinioned that he could not
he pulled out IT was fully three quarters OF an
hour before he extricated The cries OF the
girl further in the ruins had died away. The man
was James Ross. He pleaded with the workers to
dig for another man who. he said. near him.
He was practically dead when eXtrcated
Arthur Lynch. who was working alongside Ross
and Michael Ward, had wonderful escape. H
told his story follows:
We were getting the matrix ready on the steam
table and Ross told me TO get underneath and turn
on TIE steam higher for heat In n minute
felt the awful crash, and carried down the five
| floors under the table When At the bottom the