The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-12-17
FLOOD AND DEATH.
Havoc Created by Collapse OF the
Big Gas Tank I'm New York.
SIX Deaths Result.

New York. Dec 15.--Four more bod
les were found Wednesday in the
wreckage of the collapsed gas holder
This brings the list Of dead up TO six,
rs follows: Plus Balm, engineer in
Fuldner's furniture factory; John
Gray, rs years old, Waterman at the gas
works; August Wenicke. 10 years old,
son of the contractors foreman; An
drew Wendt. laborer; Peter Conlin, la
borer; George w. Bremen, rs years old,
timekeeper for the Logan iron works.
No one is missing, 81 far as the police
and persons living near the gas works
can tell.
Twenty-first street Is barrieaded by
twisted and bent iron stanchions. grid
ers and uprights piled TO a height Of
% feet. Twentieth street is also filed
with bricks, household goods and tim
bers piled high in one promiscuous
mass. Building department laborers
succeeded in clearing Avenue A SO that
the cars could pass.
All night long hundreds of men
worked assiduously to discover the
bodies that might be in the ruins. In
The basement OF the furniture factory
OF Henry Fuldner there was six feet
of water Three men on a raft floated.
searching for the body of the missing
engineer, Pious Baum, who was in the
basement attending 10 his duties when
the deluge from the tank swept away
the rear wall of the building. His body
was found under "A mass of debris.
The tank that collapsed was i75 !eet
in diameter. 100 feet i'm height, and 'he
iron supports over which the immense
cables ran were over 200 feet in height.
The lower tank into which the upper
one fitted was 25 feet in height and rest
ed on mason work Of the pit, This pit
is $50 feet deep. The builders were
testing the strength of the tank with
water pressure. Immense pipes had
been pouring water into the lower tank
all day. The upper tank or cap had
risen about 25 feet. The workmen
were preparing 10 leave the place when
the mason work Of the pit crumbled
away like clay. II was said that there
was 5000, 900 gallons OF water in the
tank at the time OF the break. The wa
Ter WAS ONtI DO lctb III Ut pun Il Ht SAtSA
plates of the tank were rent asunder
by the pressure like so much paper
The great force OF the water vented
itself on the rear walls of the buildings
on Avenue A. and all were torn away
with the exception OF n part of the gear
Of the gas company's engine house.
The masonry and brick were thrown
into the street and piled into the hall
ways OF houses and buildings on
Avenue A side. The rushing waters
cut the rear OF Fuldner's furniture
factory and huge slabs of asphalt were
carried by the water into the buildings.
Tremendous iron beams and up
rights were swept by the water as if
they were so much timber and carried
away down Nineteenth and Twenty
first streets to the river front
Attic foot Of Twenty first street were
two barges laden with coal. The rushing
water sent beams and joists with such
great force against these coal-laden
boats that they parted their moorings.
The steamer Paul Koch was also lying
ut the foot of Twcnty-irst street. and
her moorings were also parted.
The arm and leg OF n mar were found
in the entangled barricade on Twenty
first street.