The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-10-31
ANOTHER FIRE HORROR
New York Again Visited BY
Enormous Conflagration.
Lower Manhattan Shaken as If by an
Earthquake by Successive and Violent
Explosions of Chemicals Which Scat
tered Death aud Ruin Over Two En-
tire RlOclts.

Explosions of Chemicals Which Scat
tered Denth aud Ruin Over Two En-
tire Blocks.
NEW YORK, Oct. SO.-The long list
of fire horrors which have occurred in
and around the city of New York, a
list that includes the Hotel Royal fire,
the Park Place disaster, and the Wind
sor and Hoboken fires, was added to
yesterday by fire and explosion that
shook the lower end of Manhattan like
an earthquake, hurled a 7-story build
ing into the air and set fire to two
blocks of buildings, with a 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 Co.,
makers Of medicinal specialties.
standing at the northwest corner of
Greenwich and Warren streets. and
filed with chemicals took fire in some
way that may never be known at about
1915 o'clock in the afternoon. 1t was
16 minutes after noon that a citizen
rushed into the house Of fire engine 20
on Chambers street near Greenwich,
and shouted that Tarrant's drug house
was on fire. He had seen a volume of
black smoke coming from the third
story window. An alarm was turned
in. Soon afterward second and third
alarms were turned in.
One fire company from station 62 had
just arrived when a terrific explosion
occurred that threw the entire engine
crew down the stairway. The firemen,
realizing the danger of their position,
rushed out of the building to the street.
The explosion had filed the street in
front with a shower of falling glass and
small debris which sent the crowd,
which was already gathering on the
opposite sidewalks, fleeing for safety
and caused the horses hitched to the
engines to rear and try to get away.
Captain Devanny of the company
| from station 81 ordered the crew back
into the building again. They were
dragging the line to the doorway for
| the second time when another explo-
sion, more terrific than the first came
| and the whole crew was hurled across
Greenwich street, Devanny being so
| badly injured that he was sent away to
Hudson hospital.
| In the meantime the other engines
which had responded to the alarm had
collected and the firemen were busy
rescung people from surrounding
buildings. Firemen had already taken
many girls down the only fire escape
upon the building and more persons
had ben carried down the escapes of
the Home Made restaurant next door
and the buildings adjoining upon War
| ren street.
The second explosion occurred about
five minutes after the first. From the
accounts of witnesses the building
seemed to leap into the air and in a
| moment masses of brick wall, timbers
and stone were falling into the streets
The force of the explosion tore away
the walls of the big commission store
house fronting on Washington street
and caused them to collapse, falling all
at once in a mass of timbers, boxes and
barrels, from which the flames, which
burst out from the Tarrant building
like belching of a cannon. at once broke
forth.
The ruin is so complete and covers so
much territory that 1t is impossible to
estimate the loss. 1t can only be said
that the property loss will be enormous.
1t is believed that over a score Of per-
sons have perished.