New-York tribune., 1910-12-20

cries, felt the shock. and all paid the pen
atty. Walls crumbled into the smoking
and smelling streets. Plate glass windows
and cheaper windows crashed upon the
cement walks into pieces, small almost
as if they had been transformed by steam
roller
From 46th strset to SD street on the
east side there We're thousands Of windows
smashed beyond recall. That section suf-
fered the greatest damage, there being
cases, however, OF broken glass and minor
accidents extending from 44th to 57th street
On the west side of the scene of the
accident the damage done was compare
lively slight. In Lexington avenue there
were numerous cases where buildings in an
instant were bereft of window panes, and
curious interior distortions We're multiplied
in the same brief time
The dressnlaking establishment of Miss
Finch, at the corner of 0th street and
Lexington avenue, employing twelve girls,
had just begun work on the second floor.
The girls were all cut about the head and
shoulders, though not seriously.
On the third floor Lloyd Osbourne stepson
of Robert Louis Stevenson. lives when in
town At present he is IN San Francisco
His room was wrecked, even to the mis-
placement of a big blotter that was blown
from his desk across the room, where it
stuck on a picture wire. The top floor is
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. A. l. G. Fritz
Fritz had gone to work at WoodhaHen.
Long Island. He heard the noise of the
explosion, thought Immediately that some
thing had happened at the new terminal,
came hcnle at once, and found his wife cut
on the head and chest.
Schoolgirl Loses Foot.
At Lexington avenue and 50th street
little girl was on her way to school A
piece of flying glass cut off her foot. Al
though none of the one hundred and fifty
children under five years old were injured
in the maternity ward Of the Nursery and
Child's Hospital, at the southeast corner Of
Lexington avenue and 5lst street.
In the Bible Teachers Training School,
at 4eth street and Lexington avenue. forty
teachers, most Of them women, were cut
by flying glass The elevator boy,
about to admit passenger at the second
floor, was blown out Of his car and struck
the incoming passenger, both landing
against the opposite wall, not. seriously
injured. but at sea
Mrs a FitZsimnons, ianitress of a four
story brick building at No. 558 Lexington
avenue. was preparing TO open a front
window in the basement when the sash
was hurled a her and broke her left arm
Her eIeven-year-old son was asleep on the
floor above, She ran TO him and dragged
him to the sidewalk Then she tainted and
was removed to a, hospital
There were no accidents at the Hospital
for the Ruptured and Crippled, at Lexins
ton avenue and 42d street, but the patients
were set back in their recovery by the
shock TO the building, that was felt in
pronounced manner
At Sub-Station o of the Postoff1ce mail
was distributed at various places on the
floor.
Tommy O'Connen, delivery boy for
Miss Mary Moore, proprietor Of a. laundry
at No sol Lexington avenue, could not be
found yesterday morning. Miss Moore had
difficulty at first to find her laundry office,
the front of which was Knocked in. After
telephoning to the boys parents that he
was strangely missing, Miss Moore found
the little chap crying in a clothes press at
the back of the shop. He said he thought
it was, the end of the world, and that the
devil wouldn't find him there as quickly as
out front He had been terrorized for an
hour