The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-30
THIRTY SUPPOSED TO BE-
KILLED BY EXPLOSIONS
Fire Reaches Chemicals and Causes a Disaster in
New York, Blowing One Building High In Air.
Flames Spread and Cause a Loss of $780, OOO-Many
Persons Are Injured.

New York, Oct. 29.-As the result of
small fire several explosions of chem
icaIs occurred in Tarrant & Co.'s drug
store at Warren and Greenwich streets
today and blew down a dozen buildings
and badly damaged a score of others.
The loss Of life is not known, but from
all sources of information it is gathered
that there are perhaps the bodies of
thirty persons in the ruins, though, be-
cause of the hot debris and the slow
ness Of the coolness of it, no body had
been removed up to midnight.
Chief Croker of the fire department
said tonight that the loss is fully 81, 800,
OOO.
The buildings destroyed were a seven
story brick and stone structure, Occu-
pied by Tarrant & Co. wholesale drug
gists: the F. T. White Hardware Co,
and Breitenbach & Co, manufacturers
Of patent medicines.
A seven story brick building, occu-
pied by "Opens, Smith Weinman Co,
coffee roasting house
A five-stCry brick building. occupied
by Locke & COnlIlin. produce dealers;
Douglas & Co. cheese; Kahn, bakers
supplies and Hopping & Campfield,
broom sticks and broom straw
A six-story brick, occupied by Aller.
dried fruits: Ravens drug store and
spice company. and Flake & Co: Peo-
dora & Acentins, and CuneO, fruit deal-
ers.
Five-story brick used as a hotel.
Five-story brick occupied by the Nor
riS Jackson Flag company and Hart <
Co. butter and cheese
Five-story brick. occupied by Shiev-
lev. printers supplies; O'Keefe g
Shievley. printers; Morris Jackson Flag
company and Boerne, butter and eggs.
a four-story brick, unOccupied.
Four-story brick. occupied by Behr-
nan. produce. and KOrnaheens. storage
and screens.
FOur-story brick. occupied by Ernest.
saloon: Hesse & Ohlsbuhls, supplies:
Granatto. bananas
Seven-story. occupied by Eppins,
Smith & Co. teas and coffees.
Five-stOry brick. occupied by Hart
man. embossinE and stamping card
board factory; Lifsitch, cigars; Rosen-
berg, saloon.
The work of the firemen saved the
buildings fronting on Chambers street
from total destruction. and the fire was
halted after it had eaten about 100 feet
southwark into the block below War
rem street.
There were thirty-five persons re-
ported missing, and 100 men. women
and children are on the list of the in
jured.
The search for bodies is going on and
will be continued all night
The explosion shook the lower end OF
Manhattan island like an earthquake,
hurting a SeVen-stOry building into the
air and set fire to two blocks of build
ings.
The big building of Tarrant & Co,
makers of medical 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 12:f5 this
afternoon. It was sixteen minutes after
noon that a citizen rushed into fire
house No IS. on Chamber street near
Greenwich and shouted that Tarrants
drug house was on fire. He had seen
a volume Of black smoke coming from
the third story windows. One fire COM
pany had Just arrived, when a terrific
explosion occurred and threw the entire
engine crew down the stairway. The
firemen, 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 scattered
the crowd which had gathered on the
| opposite sidewalks
Engineer Pocksbury and Fireman
Brown were injured by falling glass. as
was another fireman belonging te she
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