Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-02
DISASTER BY FIRE,
Fifty to e Hundred Persons Killed in a
Fire at New York this
Afternoon.
Flames Originating in a rrug House
Destroy Many Lives and Much
Property.
Tercant's Drug House a Charncl House
for the Bodies of Girl
Employees.
Roof Lifted 200 Feet in the Air by Ex-
plosion and Bodies Buried in
Ruins.

New York, Oct. .2D.-Lives number
ing between fifty and one hundred ac-
cordins to eye witnesses and Others
conversant with the facts, were lost
at noon today in a fire and explosions
at rerrants drug house, Greenwich
and Murray streets, and the property
loss will be enormous for at this writ
ing G. o'clocls) the flames are spread
ing either way.
Soon after the fire started in the
,.IUg house three explosions followed
quickly following which the whole
front CT the building fell out into ...e
street. SiNty-tive girls and many
men were employed in Terrant's which
was Il seven story brick. Aicsl of the
men were out to lunch but nearly all
the girls remained in the place. p2o-
pie on Franklin bridge, a block away,
who were watching the Nre, say they
saw a number OF bodies shoot up into
the air when the big explosion &C.
Cured.
was the home restaurant which was
| filled with diners when the first eX-
| plosicn came. There was Il wild rush
from the place but it is not known
whether all escaped as the fire licked
up the restaurant in q few minutes
On the other side were the lithograph-
ing establishment of Schwartz 4 Co.
and the Irving bank. which were soon
destroyed and the fire spread north
along Greenwich. Twenty girls were
at work for Schwartz and it is believed
some were lost. When the building
wall fell out it carried with it the
structure OF the elevated railway
blocking traffic on Ninth avenue.
1t is reported the men of engine
company - were in the building when
the explosions occurred and all were
lost.
Three thousand persons soon gath
cred after the fire started and when
the explosion came many were injured
by glass and trampled on in the panic.
The Hartman building was also soon
destroyed and the fire switched around
on Warren street. It is now said ten
girls escaped from Terrant's. They
say there are many dead in the ruins.
The force of the explosions sent the
roof 300 feet in the air.
Twenty-eight seriously injured peo-
pie are in the Hudson street hospital,
five of whom will die. Ten of the
eleven missing iiremen are, Captain
Smith, Connolly. Jordan. Kennol
Donnelly. Wallace. Kelly, Mccall, Null
| ligan and Stranahan.
1t is reported - men at work in the
coffee house OF "Opens, Smith & Weed
man are missing. The building was
opposite the drug house and the eN-
plosion wrecked it. The men had DO
| chance of escape and there is little
chance that the men are alive.
a report just received say fifteen
men on fire truck 10 are missing.
At 2::D. two city blocks bounded by
| Washington, Greenwich, Chambers ami
| Warren streets are practically in
ruins.
When the wall fell, which knocked
in the front of the savings bank. the
teller had $S0,oW cash on the table III
front of him. There was no time TO
| the police are now guarding the gold.
So far no cause is known for the eX-
plosion.