Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-10-31
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION N MY.
LARGE NUMBER WERE KILLED,
Were Four Terrific Explosions
Wreck of the Huge Building,
Filled With Men and Women,
Crashed DOwn-Big Fire Followed.


m. Monday lower New York was startled
by booming sound which it developed
was an explosion in the building occupied
by Tarrant & Co., wholesale druggists. The
fire department Immediately responded to a
call, but had not reached the scene when
three additional explosions occurred, more
violent than the first.
A column of debris and smoke and
flames shot upward 800 feet.
Persons in the vicinity say they saw hui
man bodies thrown up in the column of
debris when the explosion occurred. Four
explosions occurred in rapid succession.
The Sixth avenue elevated railroad
| structure is demolished at that point.
Windows for blocks around were demoI-
ised by the conclusion and houses across
the street were probably damaged.
Calls were sent for ambulances. Five
alarms of fire were turned in.
Could Not Escape.
1t is said there were fully $50 people
in the building at the time of the first
explosion and few if any of them had time
to escape.
Three fire horses were cut by flying glass
anu will probably have to be shot. A
fro eno;ua was almost oom,Io,oI,, domol-
islIed by falling walls.
it was said that 100 of the employees of
tbe hu;tJ;,u yoro o;rIs Tbov w.,a On
a;aoro,t a., u,ho,, +ho g. h.,,o ,,t
and fins. eyn,os;on occurred
Restaurant Smashed.
III a restaurant next uoor TO the drug
s.oie .here were ABOUT ZVo people eatinS
.reir iuhcheon' vi these many were III
Jurea ana IL is reported a score or more
oI them iost their hves.
Up ~ iH' 40 p III. IL injured persons nad
Deeii taken 10 the Ne" YORK hospital Inc
ponce reserves from va onp, Church
street, YAK otreet ana EhzaDeth street
stations were cailed out.
Inc hfst explosion occurred at iz:lz p
m. and took the roof OIL the building.
Inc explosions sent DEBRIS lying trough
the AR and INTO the street, where dozens
OF persons were injured.
All the ambulances from hospitals south
OF fifty-nlnth street were finally called to
the scene.
blew feopie into the street.
lithographing establishment close to
Iairan'ts place caught fire and the flames
spread to the Irving bank and to two other
buildings across he street.
The Warren Street station of the Ninth
avenue elevated road, directly in front of
the drug establishment, was completely
demolished and number of persons who
were standing upon it waiting for train
were blown to the streets without any
serious injury. Some women escaped
from the station by walking the plank at
the edge of the track.
Several buildings at the rear OF the
drug store were blown down.
The flames spread with wonderful rapid
ity. The two blocks from Chambers to
Warren and from Washington to Green
wich street were soon on fire.
John M. Elliott OF Brooklyn was sitting
on the roof OF the seven-story building
at 66 West Broadway, block and half
away from the explosion. He says the
force OF the first explosion was directly
UPWARD Tor matter OF 80 feet, when the
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"9 Doe - - =. ~: $50 IN H."
oOO norsons will ho found to have lost
tbe;r lives This was on account of the
suddenness of the explosions. which
rendered n ;mnossihle for anv be;no in
tbe Mace at tbe time TO escane.
The force Of tho exnlos;on was hoard
and felt oloar down to Wall street and
heavy nlate class windows were smashed
and neonle thrown down in tbe street for a
distance of four blocks.
Cash Was Saved.
Tho emn,oves Of tbe Jrv;no National
honk whose ,hu;ld;n, stands directIy
ooross tbo stroot fron Tarr,nt,s nl,os
wore hns;lv erga,ed a. tbe;r desks az the
time ~ ths eIrst eynlos;on There was not
a olert or of,;o;oI of the banL hnt ,yos
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