The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-15
wRECKAGE OF THE GAS TANK
Scene Presented During the Search
for Bodies af Victims.

New York Dec. flour more oouies
were found today in the wreckage OF the
COLLAPSED gas-ho.der at Twentieth street
and Avenue A This brings the list OF
dead up to six. as follows:
Plus BENIN, engineer OF Fuldner's fur
niture factory.
JOHN GRAY. IS years old; watchman at
the gas works.
AUGUST wENICKE. IS years OF age;
son of the contractors foreman
ANDREW wENDT. laoorer-
PETER CONLIN. Iaborer-
GEORGE ". BRENNER. = years old;
timekeeper for the Logan Iron Works.
o one is missing. so far as the police and
persons living near the gas works can tell
New York. Dec. 14-When dawn lighted
I'd the district devastated by the collapsing
OF the big gas tank OF the Consolidated
Gas company spectacle Of ruin was pre-
scented.
Twentv-frst street was barrieaded by
twisted and bent iron Sanctions girders
ana debris piled 70 height OF twenty-five
feet. Twentieth street was also filed with
bricks. household goods and timoers piled
high in one uromiscuous mass. Building
department laborers succeeded n clearing
avenues so that the cars could pass
All night long hundreds OF men worked
a=sidrously 20 discover the bodies that
might De N the ruins. IN the basement
Of the furniture factory % Henry Fuldner
there was six feet OF water. Three men
On a ra,, aoated. searching for The body o.
-ha missing engineer. Plus Baum. who was
n the basement attending 70 his duties
when the deluge from the tank sSeot
away the rear wall OF the building Ills
body was found under mass Of debris
The tank that collapsed was 10 feet IN
diameter. 80 feet n height. and the iron
support over which the immense cables
ran were over 81 feet IN height The
lover tank. into which the upper one r.
ed was twenty-five feet IN height and
rested on mason work Of the pit This pit
Is 80 feec deep.
The builders were testing the strength q
the tsnk with water pressure Immense
pics had been pouring water into the
lover tank al day. The upper tank Or
can had risen about twenty-five feet. TIE
rorkmen were preparing 10 leave - place
when the mason work q the pr crumb,ed
away Ike ciay. Il was said that there vas
Sa0l.dao gallons ~ water n the tank az me
zine q the break The water Eas over
efty-six feet N depth. TIE steel Dates
o. the tank we're Tent asuntsr By the
pressure Ike 50 much paper. The great
force % the water vented itself on the
rear walls o. the buildings Oh Avenue A
ard al we're torn away. with ne exceD-ioa
O. a part % the rear o. the gas company
enEine-houss. The mas0nry and bricks
were -hro<u lut5 the street and pied i1t7
me harzsyz q the houses ard 5uiifinEz
OF the Avenue A SIDE Tie rushing waters
Gu. ne rear y Fuldner-s tu-airsre fsc-
tory ard hrze slabs o; asphalt Eere car-
rlss 81 TIA water into the bu1d.ngs-
Tremendous iron oeams and lurizhts
we're swsp- BY the Earer as = fhes were
80 nuch -iu5e- ard carried away down
T'venty-e-ss stree - he rfvzr trs1--
~ the foot - TEsnty-drst stTse- Sera
txo barEes lzsen Esth coe! The rzsh-az
water sszt bans and 50ists With such
force against thess cozl-isds1 boats that
thsy pared thslr noo-izxs- Tas steamer
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a-s0 parted.
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