The Grenada sentinel., 1898-12-17

New York, Dec. 14.-When dawn
lighted up the district devastated by
the collapsing of the big gas tank of
the Consolidated Gas Co., . spectacle
of ruin was presented. 5
BARRICADED WITH DEBRIS. =,
Twenty-frst street is barricaded by
twisted and bent iron stanchions, gir-
ders and uprights piled to height of
rs feet. Twentieth street is also filled
with bricks, households 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 fioated,
searching for the body of the missing
engineer, Pious Baum, who was in the
basement attending to his duties when
the deluge from the tank swept away
the rear wall of the building. His
body was found under a mass of de-
bris.
THE MISSING VICTIMS.
George Brennan, timekeeper for w.
j. Logan of the Logan iron works,
Green Point, which constructed the
tank which collapsed.
Gustave Winke, 16 years old, son of
one of the foremen of the Logan iron
| works.
William O'Connell, foreman for the
Logan iron works.
James f. Lutener, who was sup.
posed to be in the pit working when
the tank gave way.
| Peter Corlin, workman. employed
by the Consolidated Gas Co.
| THE COLLAPSED TANK.
The tank that collapsed was 17s
feet in diameter. 16O feet in height
and the iron supporters over which
the immense cables ran were over zoe
feet in height. The lower tank in
which the upper one fitted was 25 feet
in height. and rested on mason work
of the pit. This pit is $50 feet deep
The builders were testing the strength
of the tank with water pressure. I'm
luense pipes had been pouring waite,
into the lower tank all day. The up
per tank or cap had risen about 2:
feet. The workmen were preparing
to leave the place when the masol
work OF the pit crumbled away like
clay.
A GREAT VOLUME or WATER.
1t was said that there was 8,OO0,OO(
gallons of water in the tank at the
time of the break. The water was ove1
56 feet in depth. The steel plates o
the tank were rent asunder by thu
pressure like SO much paper. The
great force of the water vented it
self on the rear walls of the building!
on Avenue A, and all were torn ava,
with the exception of part OF thu
rear of the gas compnny's engine. Th'
masonry and brick were thrown int
| llC StIScJ anu tllVu ia ~ lAV hoI"aN
of the houses and buildings on th'
Avenue A side. The rushing waters
cut off the rear OF Fulner's furniture
factory, and huge slabs of asphal
were carried by the water into th
buildings.
| AN IRRESISTIBLE FORCE.
Tremendous iron beams and up
rights were swept by the water as i
they were so much timber, and carried
away down Twentieth and Twenty
first streets to the river front.
At the foot of Twenty-tirst stree
were two barges laden with coal. Th
rushing water sent beams and joist
with such great force against thes
coal-laden boats that they parted thei
moorings. The steamer Paul kocl
was also lying at the foot Of Twenty
first street, and her moorings were ais
parted.
The arm and leg Of man wer
found in the entangled barricade o1
Twenty-first street.
William O'Co:,nell, who was report
ed missing, has turned up all right.
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