The sun., 1902-01-28
GRAND INION WRECKED, roo
I.s Rooms Left Useiess-A Score OF
Inmates Injured.


The wreck at the Grand Union Hotel
looked almost as badly as that nearer the
explosion at the Murray Hill. but it turned
out to be not nearly 70 bad. As against
the. hundred or more who were cut and
bruised at the Murray Hill so that they
needed a Doctors care there were but ff-
teen or twenty in the Grand Union These
were guests who had been in the dining
room on the Park avenue side of the hotel
near the windows and a few who had been
their rooms.
There was not a square inch Of glass Jeff
in the window spaces in the front oil the
hotel, and the rooms above were IN the
same sort of wreck that prevailed IN the
other hotel. Plastering had been scraped
from most of the ceilings az though "lth
a knife. Doors at the back of rooms 'front.'
ing on the avenue were blown into kind
ling wood Down in the Office glass was
taken out by the shoyelful before there
was even standing room III the lobby Tor
the clerks and bellboys.
THIS HOTEL CROWDED.
The hotel has been more than usually
crowded for the last few days because II
has been the headquarters for the National
Furniture Association which has been
meeting daily in the Grand Central Palace.
Every room had tenant
Considering these circumstances Mr..
Simeon Ford, who with Mr. Shaw owns the
hotel. said that lie thought they had got
Of luckily. Asked what he thought Of the
smash he said
Il ,,ns an, nv way over Forty-second
-t,ect "a Fifth avenue. When the noise
came / looked back and saw my hotel
windows dropping out came bach
I'm sure | hope that ] will never see any
thing worsa f. would be lmposslbl" Tor
me 10 ,ay ha' our damage IL. u costs
,,,,nnaratiyaIv LITTLE 10 replace glass bat
uruiture aud carpenter work and the rest
cost a lot more We viii not get down 10
the figuring ot damage for som" tlne yet
/ am happiest hai none oi my plrluier
S,rs hurt MIR Ford and Mr SHAW have a
large aud valuable collection 81 paintings
hanging ln their dining n'ih7 ana oH'''7
+ and others have complained 60 Mr.
Mcdonald who l- a good friend 81 mine,
tB,u the violence of the blasting Arf"
quite often We had a picture shaken from
ur hook the other day ana have had dirhcS
ur4leu iu the pantry aud water pitchers
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