People's voice., 1900-11-01
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Two Hundred People Reported Killed In
New York City Yesterday.

New YORK, Oct. 29.-Fire broke tuI
% the Un-X-.d kIrewurks cumpan,' },
building III Park place shurtl, alleI
huOn tOday. Several explosions fol
iU"ed the ourstlng GuG Oi The flames
Five alarms Uf fire were turned ia.
AT / O'c.0ck 1t was said there were
luliy zOO persons in the building al
Ine time OF the first explosion, and
ie" II any OF them had line to escape
A young man VINO gave his name as
Harry Ross was blown 10 feet. When
ne picked himself up lie saw bodies
nylng through the air and lanli 10
the flames.
Three ire horses were so cut BY
nIlng glass that they will probably
nave to be shot. One fire engine was
demolished by falling walls.
IL was said 100 employees in the
building were girls. They were on
different floors when the fire broke
out aud the explosions occurred. 1t
Is nara TO see how these girls could
nave escaped.
ln y restaurant next door to the
drug store were 200 people eating
luncheon. Or these many were IN.
Iured aud 1t is reported a score OF
more Of them lost their lives. Up to
l2:40 pm, II injured perst NJ hsu been
AIKEN to the New York hosuital. The
nr't explosion occurred at 1912 pm,
aud took the roof Of the building.
0The explosion; sent deoris fiying
ihrough the air, and into the street
where dUzens persons were Injured
All the ambulauCes from hospitals
south of 59th street were called to
be scene.
A liIhographing establishment
close to Tarran place caught fire
ana the flames spread 10 the Irving
oank, and Two buildings across the
street.
The Warren street station OF the
9Th avenue elevated road, directly in
'front.' OF the drug establishment, was
demolished, and numbers OF persons
VINO we're standing upon it waiting
Tor a tram were blown w tae street
and receive d serious Injury. A mum
Der OF w men escaped, by walking
along the plank platform at the edge
Of the track.
SeVeral buildings at the rear OF the
drug store were blown down. The
llameS spread rapidly, until the two
ulockS from Chambers TO Warren and
from Warren to Greenwich streets
were 0u fire.
John M. Elliott Of Brooklyn was
sitting un the roof OF the seven.story
building at 66 West Broadway, a
block and half away from the ex.
plOsiOn. He says the force OF the last
explosion was directly upward for 81
feet, when the column Of debri.
spread and ell downward. 1t tool
the roof of the building and he coulC
hear the cries and screams of the in
jured.
Three minutes later the third ex
plOsioD, which he said was the worst
Of pll came. 1t shook the building
where he WIS, and debris fell about
him. Policeman Calvin was in the
Immediate vicinity of the fire when
the first Of the series of explosions
occurred. He said number of fire.
men were blown TO death on the
Warren street side OF the building,
He rescued one OF them, but no living
beng could rescue the others.
Policeman Calvin said 200 persons
will be found tU have lost their lives.
The force OF the explosion was
heard and felt clear dewn to Wall
street and heavy plate glass windows
were smashed and people thrown to
The street distance Of four blocks.
John Weigand, a stOrekeeper at As
Park place, three blocks from the ex-
plo>ion and fire, said bis windows
were blown 10 AMI he was lifted from
the ground by the conclusions.
The streets for blocks were strewn
with broken glass and debris, and
blood was spattered in every direc-
tiOn.