The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-11-01
HUNDRED KILLED.
Four Terrific Explosions Result
In a Big Fire in the City
Of New York
iSo BUSINESS BLOCKS IN Ruins.
iHe Explosion Occurred in Tarrant,s
" Wholesale Drug House Corner
Greenwich and Warren.
""'D"i"nce in the City Called TO the
0'ne' ana the Entire Fire and Police
"esrr'e Force Summoned-The
k"scuiug Of the Drad

h"Scufng Of the Dead
/ New York, Oct. 2o.-Abou, 19.a,
Il noon lower New York was startled u,
8 a booming sound, which. il de,c,on,i
Il was an explosion in the building oc
, cuPed Dy Tarrant d Co.. wholesale
druggists. Tie fire department inn.
T. n'eu'dteIy responded to a call. but
! had not reached the scene when three
t a1ditional explosions occurred more
p violent than the first. 4 column Of
d''*iS and smoke and flames was sho:
upward 300 feet. Persons in the Vi
cin''| say they saw human bodies
'hfo"h MP in the column of debris
"leh the explosion occurred. The
sixth avenue elevated structure
which passes the building. is dcuoi.
IShed at that point. Windows i'm the
vicinity and for blocks around were
blown out by conclusion and the
houses across the street were dam
aged.
There were fully 80 persons in
the building at the time OF the first
explosion and few if any Of them
had tried to escape. \ Young man
VINO gave his name as Harry Ross
Said he was standing on the corner
when the explosion occurred. He
was blown ten feet. When he picked
himself up he said he saw bodir. nv-
ing through the air and landing in
the flames. Three fire horses were
cut by lying glass 80 badly that they
VIII have TO be shot One fire engine
was almost completely demolished by 7
railing walls. One hundred of the
employees in the building were girls.
They were on different floors when
the explosion occurred. II is hnrd
% see how these girls could have cs- >
'aped. In u restaurant next door to ~
ne drug store there were about 2O0 ~
'cople eating their luncheon. or 81
heSc many were injured and score '
n more Of them lost their lives.
he first explosion took the roof
ii the building and sent debris fv-
lg through the air and into the J."
treet, where dozens of persons were -
llured. All the ambulanccs from ~
oSpitals south OF Fifty-ninth street Np
ere finally called to the scene. WI
Iarrant d Co., wholesale druggists I','
ld chemists. occupied the building W.
Gated on the northwest corner of IL
rcenWich and Warren streets. II "u
roughly estimated that one hun y
ed ana twenty-five lives are lost. =, !"
ne flames swept through the build i''
2 rapidly and within fifteen min I''
eS il wds doomed. "o'
\ iitAogr0phing establishment san
'se TO the Tarrant'S place caught "i'
e and tie flames spread to The Iry- var
? bank and TO two buildings across i'''
? street The Warren Street sta WI WI,
II Of the Ninth Avenue elevated
al dircc,l, - fro,,4 of a. -. the
,yas comnIotnI,. 5@ AZ qua
lishcd and a number Of person,
o were standing upon il waiting
tram were blown TO the street III,
received serious injury.
cveral women escaped from the
zion, however, by walking along
plank platform at The edge Of q.
track.
i,'o 1,, - '',,''''S "' ''' rear satic
flames spread very rapidly until 'ca
W. !" char
..noa,n g,'' -" - "''eN- spriI
'hn Mellott, of Brooklyn, was sit 'i'' ,I',
on the roof of the seven-storv ,~',an' ~
ding at G6 West broadway. q ,'','' 49,
k and a half from the explosion. ~
says the force of the first cxplo- -.
was directly upwards for mat Ii..
# thirty feet. when the column of "..,.
is sprcd and fell downward. II ~
the roof off the building and he n,'
| hear the cries and screams of .t
ed people. Three minutes later nnn,.
third explosion. which was the O.,
{ Of all. came. !; shook the -,
-: 1. Hitacl
'"7 ~ ~ II ~ vas anu uoOiis ing t
immediate vicinity of the fire
the first series of explosions Har
rcd. lie SAID number OF fire doubt
were blown TO death on the liams.
'n street SIDE OF the building. gress
id that he rescued one of them. i'm thi,
4
NAT no hVIng Delng could have his ma
"a the others. ~. Ii
was only an instant after the nomin
Il the explosions occurred when DAYS l
ie'a'ed structure caught fire. by la'
nately there was no train in leave I
vicinity at the mo- SauAe,
The structure was in blaze put III
distance of half block in less ON the
han it takes to tell it,
crowds which gathered about
enc were so great that the po- LeXiT
ere for time powerless to near S
hem i'm order. Several lines being
established, but the people ap- st. Lon
TO be so beside themselves show, ,
they broke through and team ol
ed the police. All the available Worlds
$ from neighboring station They v
were called and even then the have "a
appeared for time to get Bell. X,