New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-02
EXPLOSION IN A FACTORY.
TEN PERSONS BADLY INJURED. AND SEW
ERAL NAY NOT RECOVER

wRECK-TH BUILDING on FIRE TWENTY
TINES IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
Tho Tobias New Roofing Company's factory. al
Nos $40 59l and o33 East Nineteenth-s'. o.u pu''a
ings covering almost half a block was Do"" w
early yesterday morning after catchihs "ie an"
calling OUT the Fire Department more IMAM twenty
times in tho last five years. In the explosion 'e"
persons were more or less badly hurt, five Of them
In the East River Lead Company's works next
door The smelting-room OF TINS concern was
knocked 10 pieces in the crash. the entre pant
OF the roofing company was wrecked ana the
damage will reach large sum. NO one was kiheo
outright but several OF those injured may not re-
cover
These were the injured:
GREENFIELD Philip engineer, Of No POO Fast Eighty
eirhih-si severe burns on face and hands taken 10
JUDGE John Of No 400 East Tweifh-s,.; head cut.
KAHN LEO j.. Of No 3O4 East Fifty nrst-st; bruised
KAHN solomon of No 1875 East FfftyhFs St hip and
legs bruised
LAMENDE Joseph. rag picker; internally injured
NEW Tbas the prpeqT Of no so se Hp1sr G Ds
Of the body, eyes supposed to have been so badly
injured that he will be blind
oNEILI John engineer. Of No 532 West Forty second
st.. left leg fractured. face and body badly burned
RoscHE Victor chet engineer Of No 4o' East Tweay
the BODY ''''0e'
RYAN. Thomas. Of No $40 Avenue A: eyes injured
Unknown Italian woman: badly bruised.
New, Rosche Greenfield and O'Neill were in the
engne-room Of the building. a two-story structure.
when the explosion took place. The fremen beHeV@
that It caused by an accumulation or tar gas
gycerine tank was. however. being cleaned AZ
the time
The building extends through TO Twentieth-st.,
and fourteen persons were at work there al the
time Of the accident. The explosion blew of the
entire roof wrecking the machinery, throwing
down big piece OF the side wall and hurting the
men down the steps and into corners The wall
blown down separated the works from the premises
odd
Us East Nineteenth-st.. and several persons were
hurt there Hot tar scalding water pieces or steel
machinery splnters OF wood and pieces of glass
were flung all the surrounding property, and
some pieces landed many yards away The men
injured who were able to get up hurried into the
street Mr. New was badly scalded about the face.
head and hands by tar and scalding water. and
when he crawed into the street he was blinded by
his injuries
Policeman O'Baw sent in a fre-alarm and hurry
calls for ambulances from Bellevue and New-York
hospitals. He found Mr.. New in the middle OF the
street when he returned TO the building The pro-
prietor was franctcally picking pieces OF the
scalded and burned flesh off his hand as OBaw
met him. He taken care Of until an ambulance
came from Bellevue. 1t is feared that his eyesight
Is totally destroyed.
The fremen from Engine No. Is. who were the
first TO arrive found fire burning brisky in the
building. They carried ont Rosche. Greenfield
Lamende and the Italian woman and they were
at once TO Bellevue. 1t was ONeilFs Ohe
engineer first day work in the factory Lamende,
with the woman. p ckng rags on the second
floor Of the building They had both been thrown
down heavily by the explosion. and the man was
Internally injured Victor Drouth. nineteen years
old is an oer. lie was IN the enslne-roon AZ ' ~.
time of the explosion and was AT first supposed 10
have been buried in the RUNS of the machinery ana
iron. a search made by the hrcmen' put he
was not found there, and after time WORD came
that he had frightened by the accide nj tdt
he had gone home. How he escaped INJURY MS
The East River Lead COmpanyS place Is owned
by two brothers named Kahn. The explosion IN
the roofing place crushed in the roof OF the lead
company's boiler besdeS driving in part OF INC
side wall. upsettnc the boilers and inluring several
persons in the building. Leo and solomon kdnh
were in the Office the second moor Leo kahn
was thrown through a door and solomon, who IS
the superintendent Of the works was nung Gown
stairs Thomas Ryan. laborer was injured Dy
having a quantity Of dust thrown lnto ms
eyes John Murphy heard the explosion. but jumped
through a door in time 10 save himself from being
crushed The roof fell in Immediately afterwaTd,
and tons Of brick deposited on the spot on
which he had been standing -
A large piece of plate-glass about yard square
was hurled through the air TO roof OF stable
al No 800 East Nnetcenth-st. 1t crashed through
the roof narrowly missed two men at work;
Every window in the roofing factory ana IN the lead
cOmpanys factory blown out, ana all the ma
chinery in the former place was DESTROYED II Is not
yet possible to estimate accurately how much
damage done. but the Kahns Will have to pay
about s. 900 TO have their place fixed up,