The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-30

Captain DeVanney Of the company or
dered his crew back into the building
again. They were dragging the line TO
the doorway the second time when
came an explosion more terrific than
the first, and the whole crew was hurI-
ed across Greenwich street.
Devanney was so badly injured that
ne was sent to a hospital In the mean
time the other engines that had re-
spOnded TO the alarm had collected and
the firemen were 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 escape of the Home restau-
rant. next door, and the buildings ad-
joining on Warren street
Building Leaps Into Air.
The second explosion occurred about
Eve minutes after the first. From the
accounts Of witnesses, the building
leaped into the air and at once a mass
of brick walls, timbers 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, falling all at once in a mass
of timber. boxes and barrels, from
which the flames burst out from the
Tarrant building like belching OF
cannon.
Across Warren street to the opposite
buildings the flames leaped. setting
them afire at once. the work of the ex-
plosiOn demolishing windows and all
wooden structures about the houses. In
moment Warren street was chOked
with mass of debris. and the whole
place was af1ame. The great explosion
was followed by half a dozen more
scarcely less intense. and by a countless
number of smaller ones
Throngs Of people We're running about
in the near by streets, many of them
panic-stricken. fleeing from the fire.
They mingled in the crowd that was
rushing down from Broadway to see
what had happened. Half an hour after
the explosion the streets for blocks
around the fire were crowded with fire
apparatus. with a score of ambuIances.
while hundreds of police were being
rushed from all the lower precincts of
the city 10 form lines, and many priests
from nearby parishes We're going here
and there in the SmOke-ObScured thor
oughfares. looking for injured who may
need their aid. From the burning
buildings a column of smoke was rising
nigh in the air. mingled with flames
that could not be controlled by hun
dreds Of streams thrown upon them.
The second explosion carried de-
structiOn in every direction That it did
not cause wholesale loss Of life was due
70 the fact that almost ten minutes
GAullS came dALET the tttSL cry OF AAEc-
and fully five minutes occurred between
the first and minor explosion which
warned every one within hearing and
the second one. Just after the break of
fire from the windows of the building a
downtown bound train stopped at the
Warren street station of the Ninth ave
nue. elevated road 1t passed on in time
to escape the explosion, and the few
people who were left on the platform of
the station are thought to all have es-
capped before the great explosion came.
The station master fled across the
structure, carrying with him the re-
ceipts of the day and his unused tick
cts, While two wo.12en. who had stopped
on the platform to watch the IRE.
frightened by the first explosion. fed
down the downtown tracks in safety
The big explosion completely carried
away the station.
Immense masses of 'eIasonry, pieces
of cornice, great beams, window cas-
ings ard an understandable mass of
Wreckage of every description tum bled
suddenly into the street in front of the
building all at once.
The wreckase was thrown across
through the windows of the building IN