The age-herald., 1898-12-14
GREAT STEEL GAS
 TANKS COLLAPSE
Eight Million Gallons of Water
 Deluded the Streets.

New York, December 13.-The great steel gas tank of the Consolidated Gas com psny at Avenue A and Twentieth street, the largest of it's kind in the world, col lapsed at 5:SO o'clock this afternoon. It went down with a crash and roar like great explosion.
 Masonry of granite blocks and bricks to the height of 50 feet fell like child'o toy house of blocks, and loosed from bondage S,0OO,OOO gallons of water, which deluged the streets and in a 10-foot tidal wave carried death and destruction through tine sur rounding neighborhood. It is not known how many were killed and injured. Tne dead so far recovered are:
 Andrew Wendt, workman.
 Plus Baum, engineer; injured fatally.
 The injured
 John Gray. watchman, skull fractured; win probably die.
 Catherine OConnell years old, leg frac- tured and contusons.
 Mary Ann o'Conell, 19 body badly lac- erated.
 Timothy Dunn, 55, Green Point, L. T.; general confusion and submcrsion by water.
 John Wagner 3s; general contusions.
 William Kane, face laccrated, general Charles Quigg, 2s, Brooklyn, severely in- jured about the body and face.
 The steel tank was IFS feet in diameter and 160 feet high. Rising out of the ground to height of fifty feet in thickness This was filled with s,OOo,O0O gallons of water. A gang of men were at work under a fore- man filling the pit with water to make the first ''water test"
 The great tank seemed to withstand the test well. The laborers were even bgin- ming to gathr up their tools to knock off There were many people in the streets and crowded street cars coming and going Sud- denly came an awful crash. The men below had scarcely time to fly from beneath the falling walls as they were picked up by the mass of rolling water and hurled hun dreds of feet away. Into the basement, the first and second floors of factories and ten- ements, rushed the flood. Workmen were shot out of the factory windows like mere straws.
 Women were washed out of the flats from the first floors and almost drowned.
 Mary Ann OConnell and her little four year-old sister, Catherine, were seated at the front window on the second floor of No. 335 Avenue A; before they could turn to flee a rush of water struck them both, rushing them through the door and carrying them half a block distant. Both were terribly injured, the little one perhaps fatally
 Henry Fuldner was taken up bodily and carried almost to Twenty-first street. His son was also carried out of his office by the water, but was caught in the iebris, and but for the timely arrival of some workmen with axes he would have been drowned
 Andrew Wendt, one of the killed was near the base of the tank when 1t collapsed. He was caught by the rushing waters and carried almost an incredible distance. His mangled and almost naked body was found against an elevated railroad pillar at Twen- ty-first street and First avenue. more than block away.
 w. J. Logan, of the Logan iron works. of Greenpoint, L. l., the contractor who was building the tank, arrived on the scene within few minutes after the collapse and was at once placed under arrest.
 w. H. Bradley. chief engineer of the Con. solidated Gas Co.,, and said to be jointly re- sponsible for the work with Contractor To gan was also placed under arrest. Both were charged with homicide and their bail was placed at $10,OO0 each.