Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-11-02
HURLED SKYWARD
Explosions Wreck Seven-Story
Building in New York.
Scores OF People Were injured, Near-
by Structures Were Demolished
and the City was shaken as II
bya Mighty Earthquake.

ana around the city OF New YORK was
| added to yesterday by fire and ex-
| plosion that shook the lower end of
Manhattan like an earthquake, hurled
II seven-story building into the air
and set fire to two blocks of build
| ings, with II loss of life that only the
efforts of the hundreds of men who
were rushed to the work of digging
away the ruins as soon as the fire
was extinguished will reveal.
The big building of Tarrant e. Co.,
makers of medicinal specialties, at
the northwest corner of Greenwich
and Warren streets, and filled with
chemicals, took fire in some way that
may never be known, at 1915 p. m.
citizen rushed into fire engine
house 20, on Chambers street, near
Greenwich, and shouted that Tar
rant's drug house was on fire. An
alarm was turned in. Soon after
wards second and third alarms were
| turned in. One fire company haa just
| arrived when a terrific explosion oc-
Cured and threw the engines crew
down the stairway. ~ 70
The firemen, realizing their dan
ger, rushed out of the building into
the street. The explosion had filed
the street in front with n shower of
falling glass and small debris.
Capt. Devanney, of the company,
ordered his crew back into the build
ing again. They were dragging the
line to the doorway for the second
time when another explosion, moro
terrific than the first, came and the
whole crew was hurled across Green
wcih street, Devanney being so badly
injured that he was sent to hospital.
In the meantime the other engines
| that had responded to the alarm had
| collected and the firemcn were busy
rescuing people from surrounding
buildingS. Eiremen had already taxi
en- many girls down the only fire es-
cape upon the building and more per-
sons had been carried down the cs-
capes of the Home Made restaurant
next door and the buildings adioin-
ing upon Warren street.
The second explosion occurred
about five minutes after the first.
from the accounts of witnesses the
buildings seemed to leap into the air
and in moment masses of the brick
wall, timbers and stone were falling
into the streets. The force of the ex-
| plosion tore away the walls of the big
commission stores fronting on Wash
| ingtCn street and caused them to col
1apse, falling all at once in mass of
| tinbers, boxes and barrels, from
which the flames, which burst out
from the Tarrant building like the
belching of cannon, at once broke
| forth.
Across Warren street to the oppo-
site buildings the flames leaped, set
| ting them all afire at once, the force
of the explosion demolishing windows
and ell wooden structures about the
houses. In moment Warren street
was choked up with a mass of debris
and the whole place was aGame. The
| great explosion was followed by half
dozen more scarcely less intense
and by countless number of smaller
ones.
The second explosion carried de-
| struction in every direction. That it
did not cause wholesale loss OF life
was due to the fact that almost ten
minutes warming came after the first
cry of fire-a cry that was a real
warning to people who knew the
character of the chemicals in the
burning building-and fully five min
utes occurred between the first and
| the second explosion.
Just after the outbreak of fire from
| the windows of the building a train
| stopped at the Warren street station
| of the Ninth avenue elevated road
| 1t passed on in time to escape the
| explosion and the few people who
were left on the platform of the sta
tion are thought to have all escaped
before the great explosion came. The
big explosion completely carried
masonry that fell with it broke
through the flooring and almost de-
molished the structure just below the
building.
The wreckage was thrown across
through the windows of the building
in which the Irving national bank is,
on the northeast corner of the
streets. The offices of the Irving bank
and of Meclilem Bros, bankers and
brokers, We're nearly wrecked.
At the first explosion an attempt
was made to gather all the money
that was lying on the counter and
| throw it into the safes and it was
supposed that this had been done
when the second explosion brough
flying glass and plastering from tn
skylighted ceilings down about the
heads of everybody and caused them
to escape in hurry. Capt. McClus-
key, of the detective bureau, was
asked to protect the funds of the
bank, he being told that they were in
the vault, the door of which was sup
| posed to be unlocked. When the cap
tain and his men went in, however,
they found about $4,000 scattered
over counters and floor.
The only person known to have
been killed up to S o'clock last night
was a man who died in one of the
hospitals from the result of an in
jury received in the street. There
are no firemen missing.
Lynching Prevented.
Santiago De Cuba, Oct. 30.-0ctavio
Mena, formerly a clerk in the office
of the captain of the port, was yes
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