The evening world., 1902-03-03
| DEAD, Z HURT
IN EXPLOSION.
Burning CeIluIoid in
Five-Story Factory
Causes, Panic.
WOMAN KILLED By FALL.
Two Persons Still Missing,
One an Elevator Boy Who
Aided HeroicaIly.

Search for bodies will made 10
morrow in the ruins OF the Investor,
building at Nos 2lO-2l2 Canal street
which was wrecked by explosion ant
fire at s o'clock this morning.
The list OF the dead. injured anc
missing is as follows:
ToNoNTo Mrs BLANCA No ~ Cana
street
MISSING.
cofLETI JOSEPH
HARRINGTON RICHARD
I>JlREO.
Rr|KLEY JOHN Engine Company
No - wrists cut by falling ylsl.
'ANANAtGH. FIREMAN. EnEin,
company No 2; cut about head and
bruised. fell through 'vo roor.
DoRRANDO SADIE >rt. burned
abou; limbs
HARTuNG. BLoNDA. fourteen: inter.
nally Injured. Run down by Deputy
Chief Aheara'. buggy
JACoLiNA. Mr.. PHrIIoMENA. ATTY.
seven wears old internally injured:
fell three stories 10 roof
knoll. AUGUST. No ~ Ea.,
Eighty h'th street. cuts about head
anL arms
LAWRENCE. JAMES No 40 Adams
street. BROOKLYN. employee OF VII.
kin-on Company. burned about aead
and face
LITTLE, FIREMAN Hook and Ladder
No. / bruises and cuts
VI ELLIOTT MORRIS Engin. COM.
pany No q; mead cut ny hos. noxxls.
VI SWEESEY JOHN No 2S w.-,
Thirteenth street. cut ~ falling rlss..
SUlNTiN EDWARD. No. Is North Ter.
rae Mount Vernon. legs broken. fell
from third floor.
siiEti.lARp DANIEL WEBSTER.
one Hundred and Thi-ty-nf,A .,-,S
and MeSanier avenue: both legs
broken teII from ,alri aoor.
Mrs. Biancha Toronto. thirty-seven
years old jumped from the fifth story
window OF N adjoining tenement-
house. She died at the Hudson stree,
Hospital.
Joseph Coilciti. heroic elevator
boy. and Richard Harrington. an en-
ployee of the Wilkinson Comb Com
pany are missing.
One hundred persons were al work
IN the building this morning when
IN some way pile OF celluloid shaw.
'hss gnited in the horn and rubber
goods factory OF James wilkinson
on the third floor
An explosion followed tina, partly
blew out the front and rear walls
of the building.
The employees scrambled on, on
the IRE escapes Of the five floors. The
hames were all about them. and in
their panic many dropped 10 the
street and were severely injured.
To he onlookers 1t seemed a ply
steal impossibllty that every one
could have escaped
The walls and roof Of The building
fell at 1890 O'Clock and soon after
the names were under control Chief
Croker said he feared there were
bodies under the debris. but search for
them could not be made until the
ruins cooled lie thought tina, (,
would be better 10 wait until inquiry
was made for the missing.
Elevator Boy n Hero.
II Is feared that an elevator boy.
known around the building only a.
Joe, gave up his I.fc 10 an attempt :,
'escGe those entrI2pcd on the top floor
Joe vas taking James +. stanton A
buchanan n No. ~ Canal street. and
".'"Hm stars. oG the sam. address. 10
t' '"t y4NNhtyf Ia,y pIt F,t..el IN.
'"' Hp's "arn 'Iy explosion Oc urrri,
ne elevator door sAs blown Violently
u ana 81. Ihr"r "'re hurled agains; N,
Realizing that only quick action wou!
save taosc above the elevator wa
,fynptly sent up and quickly nIlcd VII
.hroush flames aud ,snok- Stanton an
ARK go' nI' - help. clear the elevator.
warming Joe. not 10 make another
Ivy this time tn, saaft was a y.ri,,bl.
mnrS But Joel when All his pas
i gers H"r' out slammed the laor ami
'.-'' rg. Hq IA. not been seen since
sara c9hn. q, trained nursr. wno
y Henry street. was arrested al Tho
lr" hy Policeman Bush. Of he Eliza.
'.th street station. because she persist,
y IN sn.ns through the Are lines Mis-
entire Street cnurt and there incl 81
" Magistrate deuel.