The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1900, Page 1

Pe es AP THO VRS RII Pe OPORTO RETRO Oe 0. WHATHER—F ALK AND MILD, WRATHER—FATR AND MEAD, 1 _ Os _* SPORTS) PRICK ONE CENT wa NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1900, i. le PRICE ONE CENT, ESE \ VERY" 5 “ESTIMATE OF FIRE — ew AND INJU FIRE SEEN FROM DOME OF THE PULITZER BUILDING. tHe OLA L oh } The most terrific and disastrous explosion ever known in New York took place at weld, that |t was possible for a man to) Wo FO CAMITNE Bay ne, Brook> win ptreet be mistaken in the identity of a peraon| lyn fy and face treet, head t us JAMBA MUT ’ is JOSBKIH DUFRIN, 4 Beach street; omg Cee ee ee ee er he oe é 12.18 o'clock this afternoon. Fire started on the third floor of the eight-story building Th Alp F| REMEN AT WORK occupied by Tarrant & Co., wholesale druggists, at the northwest comer of Warren and ' « |Greenwich streets. In four minutes the flames had reached the chemicals, and there were two terrific is jexplosions, which blew out the front of the building, closely followed by three others, which.completely wrecked it, along with the syuctures adjoining, ' sr plaoad treo Wie senchlighta tn posit! ' + Chief of Police Devery made this statement to an Evening World reporter at 5,30 eee ¥0.<'eloed ;o'c'ock this afterhoon: 3 f "From information brought to me by the policemen | estimate the number of lives ous ee lost at about 150; the number of injured at 300 or over. RW "The loss to property, as closely as J can estimate it at this time, is between $1 00,090 and $2,000,030," | Prornmsininerneni There were 100 girls emp'oyed by the firm, und at the first alarm they started to EVENING WORLD BULLETIN PIGTURES AT KEITH'S, flee. Some wer: caught in the building; others, reaching the street, were overwhelmed | by the debris hurled by the explosions or trampled to death in the. panic that followed, ‘ i Wtowraph: phot t the W In a restaurant adjoining the Tarrane building fully 200 persons were at luncheoni muNty © : Nhe The place way buried under masonry. It is not known how many escaped with their lives, bs a hae nabs | Cine : “| The fo:ce of the explosion was felt for miles. Among the buildings wrecked was | “py” Lt vaine a 1S. . the Irving Bank opposite, City tall P+" was strewn with debris which was hurled over the tall Broadway buildings, and several persons a half-mile from the scene were injured, \ ' { a, Grayy Washington and Warren streets are heaped high with debris, under which, it is thought, many persons have been crushed, +o —— At sundown seuchlights were fitted up and the search for the dead begun on the outskirts of the fire district. t AEOUITS AT AKRAM The wal's are still glowing, cherry red, and the work of taking out bodies cannot be \ started in earnest till to-morrow, A bureau of inlormation has been started in the Eighth Vrecinct sta'iun-house h , on Leonard sticet, near Hudson street, ati) ! ~ ote t | rer Nico SOME OF THE IDENTIF IED VICTIMS, ik fintth, of New wi : Please aa oe hen THE DEAD. Hapa and Thirty-ninth piresty fee) HENRY reek Jersey Cliy Height | |man anewering stvord’e deneripton had erent. embessler ot New York bank aie, ewe) GRU: leniayie IH TONY VARA. UF uni ean. erat vad | ‘our te dy Pi Wee: feniiy | ste hall, and they kept « sharp look Paces hie nae ir Monae Heecausriert EAA LHe uae tte 11a KO TADOOI Bala tb Wenn oe ps pa ee: “Chari steot {| cut tor the men, with bis prisoner. . yoveventh atree! Bealp wounded JOUN 1. ALLEN, BP, Dunton, te ® they traced Alvord from the Touraine| ness man, whose name he declines (o| Ime debria, died In Hudwom Breet iis se uk paw | Burned abou anda and face ~ to his lodging-house, where he was|make public at thie time, that A.vord| foepttial. Head’ aad’ thee. cut DANIEL CARMODY, 42 Rowery, lege Arrested soon after he entered the house| ¥a8 In Boston, This business man said |Poteoman RDWARD KELLMY, ot! crushed this afternoon, he knew Alvord personally, had met Higatyefirst Precinct. Badly cut about| JOSKVM PRRRIN, TH Quincy stress Ropeataroee banat aor? eset * | detectives, the fugitive amfled, te had! Cee eee Ae aitaied | Saree’ ahoil (08 ands I ea ~ -— = a = = A box of cigars in his hand at the timo,le This business iman asked (le chief Madson Street Woaptial, WILLIAM J ALVIN. of Church street | FRANK LANG. 1 Second streat, Jerney wrapped 4p in paper, and several news-|nepector to Weep his ide eo much|MADELING Ho WHITE T Rereen station Han nd arms cut Clty, burned about arms and body. DEFAULTER ALVORD IS papers, & @ecret as possibic. He realised, he| street, Nrookiyn. face ROBERT P ONIN. & Weat Hous! PRANK BROWN, It Weat Nnetysthind He did not trouble to go into the house, but turned around and scoompanied the, and he did not care to obtain notoriety | JOAEPH WILKIN % Catherine avenue; t y id : ‘ officers in a carriage to Police Head- hg ‘ by a is ny gs Ptah a F oy, B VAN ZANDT, ad ving Nae PRANK SCHUMAN, 02 Myrtie avenue ‘ Acting on 1 formation the ohiet| BENJAMIN FY +BY, BEAD, “tonal Bank, Burned and cut avou ‘ 5 uarters for examination, n —r 7 ne the way thither the ner a6. | revert doratied three detectives tol’ N. J: shoulders cut the face JOSEPH MILLER, 88 Jersey avene Orton r} watch the better clase hotels in tiv) FRED SCHARF BP Wea Mey te cyNtMON, cashier irving | 2ermey Clty;cut about head ABpectal to The Bveiiing Worlt) to obtaining the $5,000 reward offered by| foom, but his roam was searched and] mitted to the offtoere that he was the| ty for the hote a a] The| seventh street: neck and hande oa i anh, Paeecout and er SDREW BICO 19T Mote street: burney BOST 4, Oct ci ym Alvord, !the bank offtelals for tie apprehension. | not one penny of the three-quarters of a] missing New York bank man, ot him in the jor of the Hone Laat tele eteb th Ae rear te Rail (ERAD : : sat ARE ERA HD Who robbed the First Nations! Manik of] 1, was {na back room on the’n@eond| Million dollars stolen was found, ‘The chief inepector in person made hayes internally irvine Hank i. HEN As, i Fulton ate New York of $700.00, was captured here) goog of @ Huntington avenue lodatng: | Alvord arrived in Roston inst week] the capture. Three inepestors Getadied) te ALLEN, Jamaten, Le 1) shock WILLIAM A BK OWN. roe | oe y fo-day by Chief Ines VAItH Of th] hquae for which she was paying M aland went first t@ the Hotel Touraine, | ¥Y him hed been tracing Alyord's more. SORA MUNCAS walter In Mome-Mace SIMON BEPZIKI. @% Halsey streat, MOSES ATRATAM, 99 Hudson street Bureau of Criminal tnvewtiiration, and! woo that Alvord was found by the Ge- jut 414 not remlater, On Wednesday he} ments end tocated him. ino Alvord talked BE ee eee | Besobiins BRONIAARD head eu WH leave here this evening for wow | tedbive: ongaged the room in the lodging-house| When the chief taepeotor had hie man| Mm ee bes BA by | HENRY KNOACH, 182 Woodlawn ave: | PRANK et Weet Ninety-thine York City. E he sounded an alarm on the signal box] detectiv formed that 4 R 4 Reventh atreet,| nur Mande cut wtreet: out on head ‘The arrent wea effected at 249 o'clock | Which fs on Huntington avenue, near ng-house. erty uy ee ee WILLIAM BUBTTNER, 187 Chestnut JOSEPH DAKBN, waiter, Home Mad , embeszier , was caught in a lode the of We Ni at the corner ef Huntington avenue and ¥| Brooklyn; eh 4 bruiser mo | thie afternogn and the prisoner wam at) ‘° corner Het Newton treats whieh rere orcs MARTIN JOWT, BO Manhattan avenue: street Head gaahed Hotel, 2 Greenwich street; ba "in the south end of the clty, Weet Newton street, connect That ss Went Fiftyefret | burned and ¢ | There ho went under the name of Me, it that Alvord| head out JOSEPH B . noe iaken to Police Hondquartera an bout (he face, a bs snr sttientiy tone forma § a afhpea yi ct with the Back May station. PETER WILSON, Of Henry et Dp fireet. Pace cut | and body; ; ” ciientneyeetrenemen, | OCKH Up, He ndmitt tity a “Helio, Capt. eens eereaeel Brooklyn; head gaened JOHN Le ad yey Plainfield, N. J.) PAULINE Kt PPLER further waid he was Willing to retura to te the: come to the Wert [oun MAYERS, ya a i Ninetyefe a 2 Hands and known, Intern without Lipenrsd papers, street t JOBEPH UNDERWOOD, @ Columbus tag) u4 | chiasniate @OMARIWR, 1 Sas One| a Oe dais i Ail i li i ll