The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-11-07
Chemical C, mbustian SC ;.ers
Twsnty Buildings il: Nsw York.
MANY NARROW ESCAPES.
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succe: Sive & iuSicus of chemicals oc
CURED ID the rug store at Warren ant
Greenwich stre.ts aLo blew Gown :
oozsn buildings aud bs3ly d<mageG :
score Of others. The less Of lfe IS no
known, but f7om all sources Il iafcrma
zion 1t is gathered that there are per
haps the boties Of 80 persons In The
ruins, though because Of the ho, oe
bris ans the sioSness OF the novlog oi
it, nobody Lad been removed up &c
midnight. Ike disaster Was one CT the
most terrible :hat has sv:r occurred II
this city, and rivals the Wludsor note!
IRE in It's sppa!iipg results, ihoug ! II
loss Of property II will be wvr>a Cslct
Croker Of the fire department. >alc .
night that tie loss is lully i,o0O OO3
The action Of the tremendous ca;as-
trophe was more vivid sn6 awful than
the city hiss seen for long time,
Builoines fell IL On themselves OF
toppled over on otters, iron glroers
were thrown yards away, smashing
through great walls, whole structures
fell into the streets 10 plies so that the
line Of thcroushfare could not be
marked out, huge splinters Ct lroo,
teel and wood were fueg into ths
streets and into the buildings clean
through the walls where they buried
wemen and men. People waking
through the streets were knocked DOWN
and dangerously injured by tlmbers,
glass and steel, horses were thrown
Gown, wagons, windows, store fronts
and all sorts Of property fer blocks IN
every direction we're wrecked and dam
aged. There were 80 peTsoa8 reported
missing and 100 men, women aad chill
dren are or the liss OF injured.
The buiIiing Of TsrEaut & Co.,
makers of medicinal specialtles, stand
ing at the northwest corner OF Green.
wich and Warren streets snd filed
witk chemicals, took FIRE IN some way
that may never be Known at ab2ut =
quarter after y o'clock this afternoon.
IL was Is minutes afterwards that a
citizen rushed Tito the house of hre
engine Z9, On Chsmbers street, near
Green hicn, and shouted that TaTrans's
drug house was on FIRE. He had seen a
volume Of black smoke comisg from
the third window. An alarm was
turned in.
Soon afterwards second sDd third
alarms were lurned In. One ire com
pany had just arrived when tecclnc
explosion occurred and threw the entire
engines crew Gown the stalrWay. The
hrenen, realizing the danger Of their
position, rushed out Of the building to
the street. The explosion has filed the
street IN front With shower Of falling
glass and small debris, which sent the
crowd already gathered on the oppo
site sidewalks, fleeing for safety and
caused the horses hltched TO the en-
gioes to rear and try to get away. Ea-
yineer Rocksberry was unfastenlng the
horses, and Fireman BroWD, Of the
company, was turning the Safety valve
Of the engine when the explosion oc-
CURED and covered them with shower
CT glass. Both were injured, as was
another fireman belonging to the COM
pany.
HURLED ACROSS THE STREET.
Capt. Devanney, Of the company, or
dereo his crew back into the building.
They were dragging the line to the door
way for the second time when another
explosion, more terrific than the first,
came and the whole crew was hurled
across Greenwich street, Devanney be-
ing 80 badly injured that he was sent
to a hospital. IN the meantime the
other engines that had responded to tie
alarm haG collected and the hrenen
were busy reseulng people from sur
rounding buildings. Flremsn had al
ready taken many girls down the only
IRE escape upon the building, and more
persons had osen carried down the es-
cspas of the Home Made restaurant
next door, and the buildings adjoining
upon Warren street. The second ex-
plosion occurred about five minutes al
Ter the first. From the accounts OF wit
nesses the building seemed to leap into
1he air, and IN q moment masses OF
brick walls, tinbers and stone were
falling into the streets. Tne force OF
The explosion tore away the wall Of the
commission storehouseS fronting on
Washington street and caused them to
collapse, falling ali at once IN mass OF
uinbers, boxes and barrels, IRON which
the flames which burst out from the
Tarrant building Ike the oelcnlog OF
cannon, at once broke foTan.
EXPLOSION AFTER EXPLOSION
Across Warren street to the opposite
buiidinss the flames leaped, setting
Them sll ahre at once, the force of the
EXPLOSION demohshiEg windows snd al
wooden structures about the houses.
In moment Warren street was choked
M with mass ef debris and the whole
place was afsne. The great explosion
Was followed by half dozen more
scarcely less intense and By counties:
number of smaller ones. BY this time
the FIRE apparatus was arriving 11oH
every direction. Deputy Chief Aherr
came about TWO miautes alter the sec
oad explosion, and ne at once oTdeTec
hftn alarm sent out, followed Dy
general ca!Ifor amouiances. lie e2
Olosiop and ire together had now as
sumed the proportions oi g7ea! catas
trophe, ano :; Was at list sicugh' tha
hundreds OF lives mad been lost
Througs of people were rushing apou
IN the nearoy streets, many OF then
anic-stricken, fleeing from the hFe
They mingled IN the crowd that va
rushing down from Broadway to se'
what had happened.
Half an hour after the explosion th'
streets for blocks around the nre Ter'
crowded with IRE apparatus, win
score of amtulances, while hundfeos o
police were being rushed from all th'
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