The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-14
e GAS TANK c0LLAPSES.
FLOOD or s.Oo0,O0o GALLONS or
WATER SWEEPS sTREETs.
r~rkuen swept Out Of Factory
windows, and Women From the
second stories Of Houses-The
Less Of Life Not Yet kaown.

NEW YORK, DEC. 1z.-The great steel
49, tank Of ING Consolidated Gas Eonpa-
AZ avenue a and Twentsetn street, the
krvss. or ns kind in the world, collapsed
"a, o'clock th.s afternoon. 1t went
VI with q crasa and roar like great
rioaon-
. Hssonry OF granite blocks and h~ick. 20
- tseixht OF fifty feet, fell like a child
soase OF blocks and ioosensd from
unsaxs sssuas gallons Of water, deluEed
- streets. and In q tsn-foot tida. wave
80. death and destruction through the
Grounding neightcrhoo3. II - not known
= many xsrs Killed and iI1urssx
E1sse dead 10 far recovered are:
Andrew Nends. Workman
3ohn Gray. Is years OF age.
Pus Baum, engineer In al adjacent la.
H seriously Injured are: Catherine
Gconneil. 4 years old, leg fractured. Peter
1slkNr 1fsI1cAieG shoulder. About hrteSn
bsrs, 40 far - has been learned, were In
ID more OF less severely or almost
pEnsd.
!, 5Gss.ng: George Brewer. simskeeper.
r~sr,an sysnkie; James o'Connor. fore
y In Fuidnerss factory. adjoning. and
10 5Ieysd 10 have been In the basement with
Sgsneer Baum who WAS killed. Is miss-
Fac steel tank was l7s feet In diameter
S{k1 10 feet 1igsl. Rising cut OF the ground
ne4gag OF fifty feet was a great circu-
! wall u granite and brick. many feet
thickness.
SiHis was filed with s,0co, 600 gallons OF
Dter. A gang OF men Was at work ufl-
foreman filing the east part with
pier 10 make the ''first water test"
s<k1uddeniy came an awful crash. The men
SOW had scarcely time 10 fly from be-
n.h the falling walls ere they were pick
= up by the mass OF rolling water and
sSled hundreds or feet away. Into the
cement, the fret and second floors Of fac
wses and teHements. rushed the flood.
NJ orkmen were saot Dat OF the factory
|nHndows and carried block or more a
mere straws.
Women were washed out of the flats from
"a floors and almost drowned.
<pry Ann OConneil and her little t-year-
sister Katherine we're seated at the
tpt win3uw Of the second floor of No
Avenue A. Before they could turn 10
Dt rush of water struck them both.
nasfing them through the door and car
ling them half a block distant. Both were
fribiy injured. the little one perhaps ia
lily.
Henry Fssidner was taken up bodily and
brried aiyu0Af to Twenty-iirBt street. His
N was also carried out OF his office by
v water. but was caught IN the debris
Nd bat for the timely arrival OF some
t0rkmen with axes he would have been
4nxned Andrew Weudt, one OF the XII
wac near the base OF the tank when
YeoIlspsed. He was caught by the rush
- waters and borne almost an Incredible
Stance. His mangied ans almost naked
Xdy was found against an elevated rail-
ad pillar on Tmenty-hrst street and
lrH avenue, more than 81 crock away
IN. j. Logan. OF the Logan Iron Works
Greenpoint. l.. J.. the contractor who
as building the tank. arrived on the
ene within few minutes after the col
bse, and was at once paced under ar
Ut
AgTiiarn H. Bradley. chief engineer OF the
}easolt!ated Gas Company, and said to
to'hiy responsible for inc work with
bntrtctor Logan, was also placed under
SreE. They were charged with homi-
de and their bail Was n.ed at $le,oo0
nch
XA9rr the masonry OF the tank collapsed
u tank proper carsened and fell in "A
Altered heap TO one allie. The loss of
, tank Is said to be. complete. sao.oVa.