New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-14
Colgate&Co's
Standard Perfumes,
IN BOXES OF ONE BOTTLE EACH,
For the Holidays

returning workingmen shopgirls. shoppers etc.
slowly dragged by. Forty-fve men In the tac-
tory OF Henry Fuldner were putting the hnNh-
Ing touches 10 their tasks. and In the once were
.hs,- en,nloyer. Henry Fudner and his son
Herman
Thnr without moments warning. came the
awful crash The men below had scarcely time
20 fee from beneath the falling walls before they
we're nicked up by the food of rushing water
ona carried or hurled hundreds Of feet away!
Into the basement. the first and second hoors Oh
tho factory and tenements. rushed the angry
torrent ,
work,nen were shot out Of the factory VIM
dows ard carried block or more ike iHeie
straws on the crest Of the food. Women WEI.
washed out Of the flats from the hrst ioois' anu
,arrourlv escaped drowning. Mary Anne OCoh-
nell and her four ear-old sister Cathaiihc WV
seated at the front window on the secohu mo-,
Of No 335 Avenue A. Before the! 'ouu
turn to flee rush or water
,o.h smashing them through the window ana
CARRYING them half q block away po'" Wv
torr,h,v intured. the little one perhaps fatally
Mr. Fuldner was taken up bodily ana GO" W.
almost 10 Twenty-Arst-st. His son was a''o
.o.r,oa ~, y, the office by the water. but was
caught in the wreckage. and but for the '''''e,s
1900, >, soroe vorkmen with axes he wouid
have been drowned.
Andrew Werdt one Of the killed, was near
the base Of the tank when II collapsed ne
was caught by the rushing waters, ana HIS
msncled body was found against an eievh'e'
railroad pillar at Twenty-frst-st ana fns'-
ave more than block away. IL was 'aNe"
10 the East Twenty-second-st, police station
Hugh Kelley and Thomas Kearney each III
teen years old. playing IN the rear "a
their home No. 3S3 Avenue "a, They hao no
time TO run and, though they escaped "iu'"'
ton under the tons Of masonry, they wou'u
have drowned but for their ability 10 s"iii''
Round and round in the food they swan io'
Ave- minutes DR. more. and were almost exhaust
ed when a policeman came up ana puileu '"e''
out. Both were sent to Bellevue Hospital
AMBULANCE AND FIRE CALLS
Three policemen from the East Twenty-sec-
ond-st station near the scene AT 'n7
time OF the collapse. All ran In as many III
rections 10 serd in ambulance and fire CANS aS
they realized instantly the extent or the haNo'
wrought. ,
Ambplances from Bellevue. st. Vincents.
New-York and other hospitals arrived IN sho''
order and soon the surgeons were bending
over unconscious and manned victims oy 'he
dozen. Help was not wanting from the nun
dreds who rushed from all directions 10 help
carry the wounded into neighboring houses ana
saloons until they could be taken TO the hospi-
tails.
The Arenen under Chief Bonner and the East
Twenty -second-st. police reserves. commahuVu
by CAPTAIN Hasslacher and Sergeant Gray an
swered the calls 70, help. Sergeant Cray ola
not know for some time that his aged 1a'her'
Waterman in the gas companys employ hao
been fatally injured.
Ruudnr Commissioner Brady and force OF
one hundred men under Inspector Chl ana J.
Sweeney, Chief Of the Emergency Department.
arrived within half an hour. and. together WIN
the fremen.. set to work to dig for the Dou'eS
NJ pious Baum. tae engineer, and Foreman
O'ConnelL the latter missing ana DeHeNeu ~
be under the wreckage.
Chief Bonner advised pumping the water OUT
~ the Easements but Commissioner Brady ana
chief Sweeney feared that this might weaken
the already strained walls Of the factory and
tenement houses and cause complete collapse
Instead IT was agreed that better plan would
he 10 break into the sewers in several places and
LET the surplus Of water off in that way.
The police ordered everybody out Of the tene-
ment-houses and lines We're stretched TO Keep
the crowds at distance. After some time the
workmen reduced the water by two feet, ana II
was thought the Easements would be emptied
by this morning.
The work was exceptionally hard because OF
the freezing Of the water, and the men moved
about covered with ice. The work Of digging FOR
the bodies was abandoned later in the night, as
II was deemed best TO wait for daylight. owing
TO the danger OF the walls falling.
After the masonry Of the tank collapsed the
tank proper careened and fell In battered
heap at one side. The giant uprights were
bent as If made of paper, the whole making one
great mass OF scrap-iron. The loss OF the tank
Is said TO amount to 100000.
The damage 70 Mr.. Fuldner's factory is placed
at S25 600 and the damage TO the tenement
houses the property Of the gas company, is
placed at $4,000 1t is feared that all must be
RACED
Surrounding the demolished tank are six
smaller ones but none OF these were damaged.
WATER MAINS BROKEN
The collapse of the tank caused the rupture
constructed to feed IT. and for some minutes
these poured their torrents into the street A
telephone message sent TO julius Tenor.
division superintendent Of the Water Purveyor =
Office who was In his Office at No. ola West
Thirty -frst-st. He drove with all speed 10 the
Under his instructions the hremen closed sew
eral the PRINCIPAL mains and the waste OF
water in this direction was stopped.
Superintendent Tenor had this TO say about
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