The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-10-30
THIRTY PERSONS PERISHED
Fuy One Hundred Injured by Falling Buildings and Debris
Resulting from Numerous Explosions-Ths
Loss Il More than $l,500,000

New YORK, Oct. 2D--s ~ ~ fnhult ~ u
small fire, several successive explo.
siOns of chemicals occurred In tho
drng house Of TnrraDt AZ Go, AT War.
rem and Greenwich streets today and
blew down u dozen buildings and bad
ly damaged score of houses today.
The Loss VI HE IL not ascertained, but
from oil sources ~ information VI II
gathered that perhaps there, are bodies
Of thirty persons IN the ruins, though
on account Of the hot debris aud The
sIowness In moving II, no bodies have
been found pp 10, midnight,
Oyer one hundred persons were ~
jnred, The disaster WAS one of the
most terrible that has ever occurred
In This city and rivals the Windsor
hotel fro IN jfs appalling results,
though In Loss of property u waA
worse,
Chief Croker said tonight that the
Loss Nv fully vi, 800, 900,
The Long ljst of fire horrors W
and around the city of New York, u
list That includes The Royal hotel hre,
The Park Place disaster and the Wind
sor and Hoboken fres, WAS added W
today by q fire apd explosion that
shook Tho lower end of Manhattan likp
np earthquake, hurled " seven story
building into the Dir and set hre 10
Two blocks ~ buildings with tho Loss
Of life that only tho efforts 0f hnn-
dreds 0f men who were rushed ~ The
work of digging away the ruins, m
soon ~ Tho fre WIS distinguished, VIII
reveal,
Tho big building of Tarrapt AZ o.,
manufacturers 0f medicinal speeip lies,
Standing ~ the northwest corner ~
Greenwich and Warren streets, md
Alled with chemicals, took Nre IN
some way That may never be known,
gt about l2ilb O'Clock this afternoon,
n was sixteen minutes afternoon thpt
d citizen rushed into The house nj fire
engine No, 20, on Chambers stroefs
near Greenwich, md sbopted that
TAFrants' lrng hopso WIS 0n Hre, W.
bad scep u volume Df blDck smoke
coming from " Third story widow,
An alarm was turned m Soon Affer'
ward. n second epd fhiF1 alarms were
turned In,
One Are company hal inst arrived
when Tho terrible explosion pccprroll
md threw the entire ongino's crew
down tho stairway, The AveWen,
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rushed QHt 0f The building w the street,
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