Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-30

Callaghan, Kate, employed on fourth
floor of Tarrant Geo.
Cohen, Isaac, truck driver.
Clark, Charles, bookkeeper at Duane
1872.
Golden. Martin, employed at Tarrant
Griffin Miss address unknown.
Green. Kate M, employed in Home
Made Restaurant.
harriet, Thomas, employed by Tarrant
Halsey. Wm., employed in egg store
Hennessy, Patrick, employed in COM
mission store.
LodOlo, James, address unknown.
Multier, Joseph, address unknown.
Moorehouse, Benjamin, Montclare, N.
j., clerk in Tarrant Co.
Murphy Julia, employed in Warren St.
Moore, Harry, an errand boy.
Matthews, Hamilton, truck driver.
Mathushek. Victor Hugo. Of the
Mathushek Piano company. He was
known to have been in the vicinity few
minutes before the explosion took place.
Oppenheimer. Jules, employed in War
rem street.
Peters, Frederick, employed at Green
wich street and Park Place.
Pottinger, George, gateman elevated
railway station, Warren street.
Rush, Mary, employed by Tarrant Co.
Smith, E., employed in Chambers St.
Sulker, Geo. w., egg dealer.
Schmidt, August, employed near Tar
rants
Stein, Abraham.
Schuck. George employed in Tarrant
laboratory.
Smith. Mary, employed by Tarrant.
Smith, Lizzie, employed by Tarrant
smith, Jennie, employed by Tarrant
Tanse. Lawrence.
Wilkinson, James, employee Street
cleaning department.
Sanitary Superintendent Roberts said
that between 150 and 200 tons of ruins
and vegetables We're in the ruins and
some of the offensive odor ascribed to
dead bodies was really caused by decay
ing vegetable matter.
Seven fire engines were still on the
ground this morning.
superintendent of Buildings Dooner
mad 1000 men at work as soon as daylight
appeared. He declared that a dozen
buildings would have to be torn down.
The force of the explosion has IMPAIR
ed many buildings in the vicinity" he
said. Il cannot think of letting men work
in them while there is possibility that
they may come down. I believe that the
south side Of Chambers street from
Greenwich to Washington streets and on
washington street from Chambers to
Warren street have been made unfit for
occupancy. Forty build -ngs were dam
aged by the explosion. place the prop
erty loss at 81, ,000, ,0OO''
DIR. Feeney, chief inspector Of the health
department, was at the scene of the ex-
plosion today. "This havoc was never
wrought by benzine or naphtha," he said.
Il believe 1T was nitro -glycerine. It is
used very largely nowadays by physi-
clans as heart stimulant, and Tarrant
and company, as wholesale druggists,
would have had to supply it. If Tarrant
and company had 25 pounds of nitro
glycerine in their place it would have
blown building like theirs into frag-
ments.''
George B. Murray, inspector of COM
bustibles, gave out the following state
ment:
1T is my opinion that the explosion
was due to chemical action which took
place during the compounding Of drugs.
Just what the exact cause was we cannot
tell until we can get the formulas used
in compromising. and can get the en-
ployes on the witness stand before the
AAS Lie COIIpdLy store
collodion, ether and phosphorus in small
quantities, a barrel of alcohol, two gal
Ions of benzine, one carboy of sulphur
ic acid and one carboy of nitric acid. If
all these should blow up together I do
not think it would make such a terrific
explosion. I am of the opinion chat the
explosion was due to chemical changes"
President Thomas F. Mayne, of Tar
rant and company, said today:
I'm our own stick we had no ether or
at most not more than few pounds. We
had no benzoine and no collodion. When
we needed any of these articles to fill or
ders we bought them from dealers. We
and very little alcohol in stock. notwith-
the fact that we use a consid-
erable quantity in making our perfumes.
We had absolutely no nitro-glycerine and
no gunpowder.
''All our employees but two have been
accounted for. We employed 20 men and
Is women. William Moorehouse a ship
ping clerk. and a boy who was employed
on an upper floor, are missing"
The damage to the Ninth Avenue ele.
waited road Is largely superficial. and can
be readily repaired. All but 1--WE of the
injured who were taken to the Hudson
street house of relief were discharged this
those who remained were re-
ported out OF danger. The seven in
jured at Governeur hospital are still there
but are out of danger.