The Iola register., 1900-11-02
A FIERY HORROR
The New York Fire Proved Very Seri-
Ous Hundred Being Injured
Death List About 40.

around the city of New York, was
added to today by fire and explosion
that shook the lower end OF Manhat-
tan like an earthquake, hurled a
seven-story building into the air and |
set fire to two blocks of buildings, |
with a loss of life that only the efforts |
of hundreds OF men who we're rushed to .
the work of digging away the ruins as
soon as the fire was extinguished will .
reveal.
The big building of Tarrant &
Company 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 this
afternoon. 1t was sixteen minutes
after noon that citizen rushed into
the house of fire engine % on Cham
bers street, near Greenwich, and
shouted that Tarrants drug house
was on fire.
The fire company had just arrived
when a terrific explosion occurred and
threw the entire engines crew down
the stairway. The fremen, realizing
the danger of their position rushed
out of the building to the street. The
/ explosion had filled the street in front
with a shower of falling glass and
small debris. which sent the crowd,
which was already gathered on the
/ opposite sidewalks, fleeing for safety
and caused the horses hitched to the
engines to rear and try to get away.
Captain Davanney, of the company.
ordered his crew back into the build
ing again They were dragging the
line to the doorway for the second
time when came another explosion.
more terrific than the first, and the
whole crew was hurled across Green
wich street, Devanuey being SO badly
injured that he was sent to a hospital.
In the meantime the other engines
that had responded 10 the alarm bad
collected and the Gremeu We're busy
rescuing people from surrounding
buildings. Firemen had already
taken many girls down the only es-
cape upon the building
The second explosion occurred about
1--WE minutes after the hrst' FROM the
accounts of Witnesses. the building
seemed to leap into the air and IN a
moment masses ol prlck wall tihoefS
and stone were falling INTO the street
The force OF the explosion tore away
the walls OF the big commission store
houses fronting on Washington street
and caused them TO collapse ialllng
all at once IN mass OF umber' boxes
and barrels, while from the Iarrant
building like the belchlng OF a can
non lame at once broke iorth.
Han AN hour alier the explosion
the atreets Tor blocks around the hie
were crowded win hre apparatus win
score OF ambulances' where hum
dreds of police were being rushed
from all the lower precincts OF the
city to form lines, and many priests
from nearby parishes were going here
and there in the smoke obscured
thoroughtares, seeking for injured
who might need their aid. From the
burning districts a column of smoke
was rising high in the air, mingled
with flames that could not be con-
trolled 10y hundreds Of streams thrown
upon them.
The second explosion carried
destruction in every direction. That
it did not cause Wholesale loss of
life was due to the fact that almost
ten minutes warning came after the
ilrst cry-a cry that was real warning
to people who knew the character iOt
tbe chemicals tbe bnrnino buildinos-
and fullv five minutes occnrred between
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