New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-15
Colgate&Co's
CASHMERE BOUQUET.
CAPRICE, WORKS:
Holiday Perfumes.
WORKMEN KEPT BUSY SEARCHING THE
RUINS.
oNr, Still. M1ssING-DAYLlGIIT REVEALS THE
ING TORRENT AND FALLING MASONRY
CORONER YUCCA TALKS OF IN
SECURE FOUNDATIONS.

CORONER YUCCA TALKS OF IN
SECURE FOUNDATIONS.
Whom the daylight came yesterday morning
and made IT possible FOR the first time to see
MAINLY the terrible havoc wrought by the BURST
ing of the huge gas tank at the works or the
Consolidated Gas Company. the wonder OF IL al
was that so comparatively few lives were ios'
The destructive effects of the accident spreau
over q large area which teemed with workmen
and tenement house residents. yet despite the
toppllng over of thousands of tcns OF steer anu
iron work. the partial demolition or TWO puiiu-
ings and a deuge of rushing water seVerai iee'
deep only six people so far are KNOWN " pe
killed. and one man IS missing. The newly
completed gas tank said to be the largest OF us
kind in the world is now nothing but mass Of
tangled iron fifty feet high. stretching from
East Twentieth-st. right across to the north
side of .Twenty-first-st Steel girders ana up
rights many feet in diameter were either twist
ed into grotesque shapes or snapped In TWO ike
twigs. while the steel plates Of the tank. nearly
an inch thick were ripped apart seemingly with
the same ease as one would tear piece OF
tissue paper
The gasometer fell In the direction Of Twenty
frst-st. and but for q high brick wall banked
al the back with earth the topping structure
must have crashed into the reservoirs hlled WIN
gas on the opposite side OF Twenty-nrs'-s' |''
II is some of the broken Orders are RESUME
against the supports of these tanks put loi'u
nately the tanks themselves were not toucheu'
STREETS Uttered WITH WRECkAuh'
All day yesterday Avenue and the s'ree's
around were still strewn with fragments VI
iron. heavy wooden beams, bricks and wrecKaee
generally. where they had been carried ike mere
pieces of cork in the irresistible rush oi '
escaping water with which the tank was pa'''
filled The of Henry Fuldner's tapie factory
At the northwest corner of Avenue and TWen-
,ia,bst which was separated only by few
wards from the great tank was blown entreiy
AWAY and every story of the building Is exposed
TO view. Machinery and wreckage were hahs
ing from each floor, and as the supports OF 'he
two upper stories are apparently resting Only
on the remains of the tank the possibility of
the building collapsing still further maze the
locality dangerous one for the men who were
searching the ruins below for victims or the
wreck. Twentieth-st was not blocked The
mar, Of the wrecked reservoir AUDITING on this
tboroughfare was still standing. but in so
cracked and bullying a condition as to threaten
to fall ut any moment. Traffic in consequence
was forbidden along this street.
Up to late hour last night the corrected list
| OF killed and missing was as follows:
THE DEAD.
BAUM Pierce Of No. s2s venue A; engineer IN Fud
neF's factory
BRENNER George Of No Gao cnard-st.. Greenpoint
tmekeepcr for the contractor
CONLIN Peter No l62 East onerhundred and fourth
81 engineer Of gas company.
GRAY John. seventy-two years old. Of No 800 East
Eich,eenh-st; gateman Of the gas company.
wENDT. Andrew. hirty-four years OLD. Of No 20 Eas,
| company.
wINcKE. dusaye seventeen years DID, Of No 2l2 EcS.
fordst. Brooklyn o son of one Of the foremen at the
works
| i~. MISSING ~r
LUTENER. James E. thiry-sx years old. Of No. ga
West Forty ifth-st
Early yesterday morning two hundred men
from the Logan Iron Works and the whole emer-
gency force of the Building Department, to-
| gether with a large body of men employed solely
| to look for the dead. were put at work. The
| nature Of the wreckage requires skilled labor
in its removal Extreme precautions must be
taken lest the removal Of any one piece should
make the whole shift its position and
cause further loss OF life. and possibly the
| weakening Of some Of the surrounding tanks.
| Despite the care taken Thomas F. Kelly. TWEEN
| ty-seven years DID, a workman. seriously
| injured by slipping grder. Two OF his ribs
were fractured and he was hurt internally. He
was removed to his home. in East Thirtysixth-
St, after an ambulance surgeon had dressed his
injuries.
Work was first begun in clearing Twenty
first St. where the greater part of the super
structure lies but 1t will take at least couple
Of weeks to remove the almost irexiicab bic
mass Of interlaced Orders plates and posts.
The block in which the immense tank was
situated is peculiar one On the Avenue A
SIDE beginning at Twentieth-st is Fuldners
furniture factory. Next door is a tenement
house. occupied by Hugh Kelly and several
families, all OF whom are employed by the gas
company. Next door, at NO. $50 Avenue a, is
another tenement house. occupied by the OCon-
nells and four Other families. At Twenty first
! ST. are the Offices and engine rooms Of the gas
company. In First-aVe. there is row Of tene-
ment- houses and stores. On the Twentieth st
side. near First-ave., is a storehouse Of the gas
company. The rest Of the block is taken UP
with gasomcters. These immense holders vary
In size. but all OF them very large, though
none is to be compared with the monster that
collapsed. This immense affair was 175 feet in
diameter. 1GO feet in height. and the iron sup
ports which the immense cables ran were
over 300 feet high. The ground section Of the
tank. as in other similar structures. is station
ary inclosing within IL the holder for the gas.
CAUSE OF THE WRECK
'The accident 1t was said, although no one II
authority would corroborate it yestei day. wa.
! caused by the inability Of the new gasometel
to stand the test to which ii was necessary Il
subject IT before putting it in use for the stor
age Of gas. The system Of testing IT, some OF
the minor officials Of the gas company sale
> yesterday, was to fll the bottom section Will
= water. and then pump air into the gas holde
proper until 1t should rise to the altitude 4
g would reach when full of gas. The water wa
8 all in Tuesday afternoon to the measure o
;.