The evening world., 1911-10-21
BOILER EXPLOSION
INJURIES SCORE,
SHAKESUPBL0CK
Ammonia Fumes From Burst
Pipes Add Peril of
IL Suffocation.
N IN
Eiremen Save Lives in Wreck
of Greenwich Street
Storage Plant.
N IN TENEMENTS

with a conclusion that shoo& tho
city for blocks around. tore yaTnlng
holes in the sidewalks. shattered I'VE
hundred windows and sent debris NY
ing that knocked down and injured a
score of persons, a boiler blew up Just
before last midnight IN the cellar or
the Greenwich Cold Storage Company,
Nos. 100000 Greenwich street
Policeman Joseph Ward OF the Leon
ard street station. twenty-five years Ola.
Of No. iss Eighth avenue: fractured right
leg and internal injurics- Taken to Hud-
eon Street Hospital. where the last rites
OF ths church were given him by Father
p1nsen of st. Peters Church. Barclay
street. Ward Is dying.
Phiiip Stanton. twenty-eisht. driver.
If No. Il3 Hudson street; cut on left
knee. At Hudson Street Hospital.
william Bean. twenty-one. u No. zoo
Greenwich avenue. Ia vito Bridget.
sh,rty, ana their son. William. chrcs, ell
eut nv a shower of glass a. they lay
m bed: trsafsd at the Hudson Street
Hospital.
Daniel Murphy. twsnty-thrss. Of No.
s7ps Essh6h avenue; ~oontuslons; Bellevue
Hospital
George wATAeA twnty-ssvsn. d
'laceraied right hip: Bellevue Hospital
Charles Rooinson. forty. general oon-
~tusions; Bellevue Hospital.
Thomas p. Mnllisan. the snSfnsss. .
lacerlssd hand. attended ~ HUDSON
Street Hospital
$4,000 DAMAGE CAUSED ~ TX
PL0oloN.
The mons1 damage. - 6oudfn0
that done to stoo,n b. sRvssooeA vases
and ammonia fumso. - eGdmAesd en-
ssrvativdy - QoyoW.
AZ LIS O'Clock PeaiesmaA JoooUA
Walker, on nxsd post ~ AsbesS cd
Greenwich arests, ~ t1k3Ag - n.
liccman Ward. whe vas staining "a
the northwest corner. when bosA heard
Q hissing sound. followed b. . Aassn.
irg explosion and . 0multAne0uo NUNS
Of the street beneath them.
Flagstonss . dossn fest 0ng - han
a. wide sailed into the ar. 0saeoes
shivered In all the windows around.
Tons Of debris hurtlsd 10 Ana out some
Of Il dropping BLOCKS away. Subsequent
Investigation showed that the boiler.
which was one Of . pair. como i've fest
In diameter and ASftssn feet fonS and
weighing possibly fifteen tanA va
thrown sixty feet ~ the explosion. n
tore p under the Sidewalk. 0ashsd
Though two eightssndnoh beiok retain
ing walls and went nvs feet into the
earth. Some Of the boiler tubes shot
through the hole In the sidewalk and
Cell a block away At IAight street.
Other fragments Of debrls smashed
tnio the Ninth avenue elevated struo-
ture and caused . stoppass Of traffic
for al hour.
Nos. sss-+Oo. adjoining the scene Of The
explosion OF the other side, 10 . six.
story tenement occupied By twelve fam.
A.ss. and on tho northwest corner, a
No. ~s Greenwich street 10 another tenep
mont seven stories high. occupied b,
thirty-eight families.
One OF the immediate effects Of IN,
explosion was to break Q four-inci
q main. which At once caught nrc
The ammonia pipes in tho cold storag,
plant were burst and volumes OF thicl
and deadly fumes began to Ill. the eel
lars and ascend 10 tho upper floors
To complete the list a high pressure
water plug on the corner gave wa,
and began emptytng water into Tn
cellars a. the rate OF thousands o
gallons o minute.
A fire alarm was turned IN by IN
policemen. Deputy Chief Binns an
battalion Chief John Rush were IN
nrst officials to arrive. Chief Rush &c
h water turned off that was foodin
the cellars n then set himself I
lighting the gas fare.
The fire chiefs figured that probabl
there were living people In the celia
q The ammonia fumes had not sun,
Gated them. and Mulligan. who ha
been found among those injured on Il
street. said that his Fireman Cav
naugh was inside.
Firemen Thomas Whitcomb and 10
sph Grady of Engine Company No.
pu wet sponges to their noses Al
sDouths and dashed into the cellar. Tn,
found Cavanaugh. almost unconsclou
cropping his way through the darkne
Yin the rear. He was brought out SAT e
n almost collapsed.
SAVED FROM SUFFOcATioN q
AID OF LADDER.
VVht1a thia WA galn1 nm n,ha. A..