The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-10-30
BIG BUILDINGS IN RUINS.
Thirty Persons Killed In New
York Explosion.
PROPERTY LOSS ST. 100000.

PROPERTY LOSS $l,500,000.
Lower Portion of Manhattan Shaken by
q Force of Concussion-- -Thirty-Five Per-
Missing and One Hundred on the
List of Injured.
New York, Oct. 30.--The long list of
fire horrors that have occurred in and
around the city of New York, a list
that includes the Royal hotel fire. the
Park place disaster and the Windsor
and Hoboken fires, was added to yes
terday and explosions that shook the
lower end of Manhattan like an earth
quake, hurled a seven-story building
into the air and set fire to two blocks
of buildings, with loss of life that
only the efforts of hundreds of men
j who We're rushed to the work of dig
4 ging away the ruins as soon as the fire
was extinguished will reveal The
big building of Tarrant 4 Co., makers
of medicinal specialties, standing at
the northwest corner of Greenwich and
Warren streets, and filled with chem
icals, took fire in some way that may
y never be known at about 12:15 yester-
day. 1t was is minutes after noon
that citizen rushed into the house of
fire engine No. 20. on Chambers street,
near Greenwich, and shouted that Tar
rants drug house was on fire. He had
seen column of black. smoke COM
ing from third story window. An
alarm was turned in, soon after sec
ond and third alarms We're turned in.
One fire company had just arrived
when terrific explosion occurred and
threw the entire engines crew down
the stairways. The firemen, realizing
the danger of their position. rushed out
of the building to the street. The ex-
plosion had filled the street in front
with shower of falling glass and
small debris, which sent the crowd
which was already gathered on the
opposite sidewalks fleeing for safety.
Engineer Rocksberry was unfasten-
ing the horses and Fireman Brown
was turning the safety valve of the
engine when the explosion occurred
and covered them with a shower of
glass. Both were injured, as was an
other fireman belonging to the COM
pany.
Close Call for Fireman.
Captain Devanney of the company
ordered his crew back into the build
q ing again They We're dragging the
4 line to the doorway for the second time
when came another explosion, more
~ terrific than the first, and the whole
crew was hurled across Greenwich
street, Devanney being so badly in
jured that he was sent to hospital.
n In the meantime the other engines
4 that had responded to the alarm had
collected and the firemen We're busy
rescuing people from surrounding
buildings Firemen had already taken
many girls down the only fire escape
upon the building and more persons
had been carried down the escapes of
the Home-Made restaurant, next door,
and the buildings adjoining on Warren
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 moment masses OF brick wall
# timbers and stones We're falling into
y the street. The force of the explosion
tore away the walls OF the big com
mission storehouses fronting on Wash,
ington street and caused them to co!
iapse falling all at once in mass OF
timbers, boxes and barrels, from which
the flames burst out from the Tarran1
building like the belching OF a cannon
Across Warren street to the oppo
site buildings the flames leaped set
st fling them all atire at once, the force
Of the explosion demolishing windows
and all wooden structures about the
houses. In a moment Warren stree
was choked with a mass of debris ane
the whole place was atlame. The grea
explosion was followed by half /
dozen more, scarcely less intense. ant
Nv a countless number of smaller ones
By this time the fire apparatus was ar
irving from every direction. Deput,
Chief Ahearn came about two minutes
after the second series of explosions
and he at once ordered a fifth alarm
sent out, followed by a general cal
for ambulances. The explosion ant
fire together had now assumed the pro
portions OF great catastrophe anu
was thought that hundreds of lives hat
been lost.
The explosion blew down dozel
buildings and badly damaged scor
Of others. The loss of life is no
known, but from all sources of infol
nation it is gathered that the bodie
Of 80 persons are in the ruins, althoug
because of the hot debris and the slow
ness of moving it, no bodies had bee
recovered Chief Croker of the fir
department said that the property los
is fully S1.5oO.00o.
Demand Death of Tuan.
Picking, Oct 27.-At a meeting yes
terday the ministers of the ten power
unanimously decided to demand tn
execution of Prince Tuan and fou
o+I,o, Manchll princes one duke ant