The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-11-02
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Seven-story New York Building
Hurled Into the Air and Two
Business Blocks Burned.
Exploding Chemicals in Tarraut's
Drug Store Shook Lower End Of
Manhattan Like an Earthquake.
The Con~ussion Caused the walls of
the hiE Commission storehous.
frontinE ON Washington
street to Collapse.

New York. Oct. 30-Thc long list
of IRE horrors that have occurred in
and around the city OF New York. a
lisi that includes the Royal hotel fire.
the rark Place disaster. and the
Windsor aud loboken fires. was add
I'd 10 Monday by a fire aud explosion
thai shook the lower end of Mnnhat.
tan Ike an earthquake. hurled sew
en-.fory building into the air aud
sci hrc 90 two blocks OF buildings
with loss of life that only the cf-
forts OF hundreds of men who were
rufhed 10 the work OF digging away
tht ruins as soon az the frc was eN.
tinWuishcd. will reveal.
The big building Of Tarrant a Co.
makers Of medicinal specialties.
standing AZ the northwest corner Of
Greenwich aud Warren streets an
filled with chemicals. took are Ia
some way that may never be known.
~ about a quarter after ~ o'clock
Monday afternoon. An alarm was
turned in. Soon afterwards second
and third alarms were turned In.
In the meantime the other engines
tha' bad responded 10 the alarm had
collected. and the fremen were busy
rcscu'ng people from surrounding
buildings. Fircmen had already
taken many girls down the only fire
escape upon the building, aud more
per ons had been carried down the
esclpss % the Homemade restau-
rant next door and the buildings adj
ioiliug ON Warren street. The See
ond explosion occurred about five
minute, after the frsf From the ac-
counts 81 the witnesses. the building
seeemsd to lcnp into the air. and in O
moment q asses Of brick wall. tim
hers and stone we're falling inio the
street
The force of the explosion tore
away the walls Of the big commits
SION store houses fronting ON Wash
ingion street aud caused them 10
collapse. falling all az once In mass
of timber. boxes aud barrels. from
which the flames burst oui from the
Tarrani building like the hclchins
o. q cannon.
lcross Warren street "a the OPP
posite hdildings the fnmes leapcd.
setting them All ahrc az once. the
fore 81 the explosion demolishing
windows and ali wooden structure
about ihe house. Ia moment War
ron street was chol,cd up with "a mass
Of debris and the whole place wa
aaauc.
Tho great explosion was followed
by half a dozen more scarcely in
tense and lay q countless number of
smaller ones.
rt this time the fire apparatus was
arriving irom every direction. Dcpu-
a. lhirf Ahcarn came about two min
unfts after the second series 81 cN-
plosions Md hc at once ordered q
heh alarm sent out followed by
general cal for Ambulance. The cN-
plosion and fire together had noW
assumed the proportions of grcu'
catastrophe and 70 was thought that
hundreds of lives had been lost.
llnmrnsc masses of masonry, pieces
of cornicr. grcn, beams. window cas-
'NaH Htifl hh iNiiiNHii ifANiN AAa0n ~
wrc,l.age ~ every description tum
hlcd suddenly into the street in front
Of the huilding all al once.
Tic wrcDkage was thrown across
through the windows OF the building
Ia which the Irving National bank b..
on She northeast corner of the street.
The Offices OF the Irving bank and of
Me- KLEIN Bros. bankers and brokers.
were nearly wrecked.
a; the first explosion an attempt
va, made to gather all the money
AMI paper thar was lying on the
counters together and 90 throw them
into The safes, and II was supposed
that thi. had been done when the
Second explosion brought flying glass
and plaslcring from the skylghted
cciliugs down about the heads of cv-
egy Dody and caused them 10 escape
I'm % hurry.
Ouisidr of few who were injured
IN the STREETS. the loss Of lifc by the
fire and explosion must have occurred
In the Tlrrant building mainly. and
possibly Ia the other buildings de-
stroycd by the fire.
The number of persons in the Tar
RAM building was estimated To be in
thc neighborhood of so. Secretary
Allen. of the company. said that
there were - employees. and he
thought all got out with the eNcep-
tion OF one. People who saw the fire
declared. however. that more must
have been lost.
4 number OF iiremen were injured
i'm various ways. however. and scores
of persons received injuries of every
degree from falling debris in the
streets. Fircmen and policemen COW
cred with blood were common sights
az the beginning of the fire and one
of the latter. Calvin, of the Church
street station. who was so badly cut
up while assisting fireman out of
The wreck on Washington street was
eertain that hremen had Deen buried
under the ca,c.in of the building.
Phillips. the engineer al Tarrants
said. when he described his own hur-
ried exii from the building that fa'
terscn. the chemist mad told him some
time ago tlSf there were dangerous
chemicals in the place and that. II V
ever caught fire, the best thing the