The sun., 1898-02-20
MANY SICKENED BY GAS.
R IN STREET MAIN FILLS
sFYERAL TENEMENTs.

... a.I,ed with n Mysterious
u. .,,.... .,d the Hush for Doctors Attractea
80 ,tteution OF tho OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
-,...a .ns tho Brcak-S1nny Livcs lmperii'ed
-, IN n Gas main in East Seventy. eighth
- second avenue, which happened ap
1870 ssveral days ago, permitted 30 much
psl'. ..oano and find it's way into the three
% horscs that a large number OF lives were
nI,,,.a an Friday night. The houses affect.
Ios second avenue, which stands at tho
l'.Sa..t corner of Seventy.eighth street and
aO.s.d avenue and 1900 and 1902. which arc
o'0o houscs I'm order to the north Of the cor.
Wv IN ,bo corner is the liquor store of ID.
,r,,,,n and on the ground floor at 1900 Nathan
p.,shsrt has a tailor shop in front and living
,ooms in the rear for himself his wife, ana Two
children.
The smell Of gas has been observed about
rittens place and at 1900 for several days,
I'M, q was not until Friday morning that 1t be-
can 10 be strong enough to become annoying.
ry,n then Il was not considered dangerous, and
.lbouQh IL grew stronger toward night no one
h,d suspected danger to life up to nearly bed.
tina Then the gas began to accumulate In the
houses rapidly, aided no doubt by the fact that
thsre was less opening and closing OF doors and
vindows than during the day.
Thu 8rst reports OF trouble came at about the
s,me hour from tho first and second floors of
1900. Mrs. Reichert found that her ten.months
on haby was alarmingly sick. She rushed Off
70 druggist, who applied rertoratlyes and
ia work. Mrs. Reichert would not take the
ehld home again. but left it at friends house
In seventy second street; when hl she In,y nnaliy
"a and her other child, fve-yeear;old girl, fast
becoming so. She took them both out of tho
house and to her friends house.
,snnenberger. At $50 o'clock his mother. who
Il 10 years old. was overcome, and he sent In
haste FOR DR.. jackson of 332 East Seventy
scious when the doctor arrived. Ho revived
her and as soon as possible aftor that the Tan
nenbereers locked up their rooms and sought
quarters else where for the night.
beCan to be affected. Most of these wero The
tenants on the north side OF the corner house.
although there were five persons somewhat af
fected In 1902 and the family of Jacob Rosen-
berg, who lived next to the Tannenbergers, was
rendered III. The greatest sufferers in the cor
ner house were on the top floor. Mrs. Mary
(}eoghegan her four-year.old daughter, and
servant girl, were so Ill that they had to have
doctor and Mrs. Della Gloster was also made
Teresa Celia. and Augusta Davis. All three
suffered severely. H. Berghorn, the owner of
the building who lives on the second floor, and
his family became Ill also. The rush for doctors
which took place in the early morning hours
attracted the attention Of tho police and meas
ures were taken to bring about remedy OF the
trouble. The gas companies were notified and
before daylight gangs OF men began digging
into the street to find the break.
While Policeman Dent was investigating the
trouble very early yesterday morning, and Err
nest.Macaluso. a barber Of 201 East Seventy
eighth street, was showing HIM about, they en-
tered trench which had been opened a few
days before in front of Macaluso's shop. Tho
barber was holding candle, and as he.stepped
into the trench the ground seemed to take firc
and dozen little jets of flame sprang up
from the sides Of the trench. These burned for
about ten minutes before they died out Yes.
terday the bartender at Nitten's saloon found
gas coming through tho wall that separat 60 the
area Of the building from the street, and he
let fire 10 It The flames covered q considerable
space on the wall, and reached mp through the
grazing which connects the sidewalk with the
building over The area. He To- them hurn for
about three-quarters of an hour, and even then
hem.
The workmen who had come I, repair the
efeak mado openings to the connections lead.
ING 70 each OF the affected houses. and others ut
mo junction OF the mains for Second avenue
ana Seventy-cghth street. 1t was at this
point, they said afterward. that they found the
efeak The street main had collapsed A new
Nienglh OF pipe was put in and the people in the
hoqses said In the afternoon that the gas smell
nad greatly decrea sed and that they thought
the danger was passed,