Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-30
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 Lodolee. Jamse. address unknown. l Aiultier, Joseph, address unknown.
 Moorehouse, Benjamin, Montcluir, N. J., clerk in Tarrant N Co.
 Murphy, Julia, employed in Warren | street.
 Muh, Henry, 20, employed in Wash 1 inSton street.
 MattEcws, Hamil.E, truck driver. Mathushek, Victor Hugo, of the Ma | thushek Piano company. MT Ma ] thushek was known to have been in
 the vicinity d few minutes before the | explosion took place. | Oppcnheim. Jules, employed in War ren street.
 wich street.
 l Pottinger, George, &1reman elevated railway station. Warren street. Busch, Mary, employed by Tarrant & Schoeter, Frank, employed in Green :wich street.
 Smith. F., employed in Cha mbers street.
 Siiker, George w.. egg dealer in Cham bers street.
 Schmidt, August, employed near Tar rants.
 Stain. Agraham.
 '1Clitth. beOISt. clllD4OSGu the Il dr. rant laboratory.
 Smith, Mary. employed by Tarr ants. Smith, Lizzie. employed by Tarrcmt's smith. Jennie. employed by Tarra nt's. Tanse. Lawrence
 Wilkinson. James, an employe of the
 street cleaning department
 Three hundred men were at work on the ruins all night. There was 2 shift at midnight. but the work did not cease Superintendent of Buildings pooncr said he intended to get the de brls cleared away so that Bodies mig be reached before the afternoon. He declared that q dozen buildings would have to be torn down. New York. Oct 3O.-As an instanc, of the panic caused on the downtown streets by the tremendous eXDos;on i'll Tarrart < Cos building Ec rerday, II Is related that lnrpr young women ran from the corner of Broadway and Cortland street and never stopped un- til they reached the Battery, a dis tance of over half mile. There olg of them Tainted and was cared for in the East River hotel She said that her home was in MaSsachu- scttS and that she had arrived in New York early yesterday morning to pay
 
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 Explaining his statement that a dozen buildings would have to be torn down, Superintendent Dooner said:
 More important than finding the dead is the protection of the living. The force of the explosion has impair cd many buildings i'll the vicinity. I cannot think of letting men work ill them While there is q possibility that they may come down. 1 believe that the buildings along the south side of Chambers street from Greenwich to Washington streets. and on Wash ington street from Chambers to War ren streets, have been made unfit for occupancy. They will be thoroughly examined and until am sure of them 1 will not allow the proprietors to open for business.
 Forty buildings were damaged by the explosion. l place the property loss at $2,OU0 ,O00.'
 Dr Feeney. chief inspector of the health department called this morning tit lIe SctEt Ol tue eADlOSlOn.
 This havoc was never wrought by benzine or naphtha,'' he said II believe it was nitro o-glycerine. It is used very largely nowadays by phy sicianS as d heart Stimulant and Tar rant & Co, as wholesale druggists would have had to supply it. The stuff is used ill a very weak solution If Tarrant & Co had twenty-tiv ve pounds of nitro-glycerine in their place it would have blown q building like theirs into fragments
 George E. Murray, inspector of com bustibles. gave out the following state ment to-day concerning the explosion that wrecked the building occupied by Tarrant X Co:
 Tt is my opinion that the explosion was due to chemical action which took '''h"c during the compounding of drugs. Just what the exact cause was we cannot tell until we can get the formulas used in compounding and can get the employees on the witness stand before the fire marshal.
 The company had permit to store | cOllodion. ether and phosphorus in l small quantities, a barrel of alcohol | Two gallons of benzine. one carboy of | sulphuric acid and one carboy Of l nitric acid.
 If all these should blow LID to- l heavy enough to make such q terrific | explosion. This is why 1 am of the | opinion that the explosion was, due l to chemical changes"
 Although d force of three hundred | men worked all night on the ruins of 1 the destroyed property and were re- 1 lieved by more than one thousand at 1 daylight the search had not revealed ] any dead bodies up to half past 1 twelve to-day. twenty-four hours after i the explosion. The list of the missing numbers thirty-eight. but it is be 1 lieved that many of these will be found during the day. Thomas F. 1 Main, president of the Tarrant com l pan. said he felt sure that all the | employees of the company with the possible exception of two had been saved. No change was made to-day in the original estimate of the finan- cial loss. the figures remaining at from S1, ,50o,000 to S3,OO0.000.S