The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1900, Page 2

| = | \ GREAT Tarrant & Co.'s Eight Story Building at War- ren and Greenwich Streets Torn to Pieces and Many Employees Buried in the Ruins, Explosion Fire, Which Extended to “L" Causing Much Damage and Loss of Life and ; Stopping Trains on Ninth Avenue Brinch. | Debris Hurled Many Blocks and in Falling Injured Numbers of People Far from the Scene of the Explosion —Marvellous Escapes’ and Thrilling Rescues, | A fire which started shortly after noon to-day in the eightestory butlding of 4 : ly noenped " ; ‘Lyneh (them! Lynch themt" was Tarrant & Co, At the NOPthWoRt COPNO Qyp64 PORE +a RRE EO eee beet bbe . - yn | ~ at PL _ . a) 2 b/| the cry which wae taken up by several ai rosme ont Oraginy #roeA Maaleag nu teem ter em wid” conmme tomes soo nine ve STREET FULL OF FLYING WRECKAGE, | {/0 "v7 sioy followed by a great explosion that) Agioining the ‘Tarrant ful w he peer he catastroy PROD DOD BODE TTOD IDOE COREEDOOPETOOE DE) he crow murmed towards the two wrecked the entire structure Huckloy's Home-Maide Resiauran nanan euee Ju Thal lane ktoceries wore all mixed) tnurant was situated collapsed. men, who, seeing thir perll, tried to shall Wook of | Up th cont } F make thelr way through the dense wall It te belleved that from fifty to one ce ven ane a nila Hla 1. Me Impossible to jearm how many ia | hundred persona ware eating tn the pl M SSING ——- persons escaped, From the fact that |of people, aware’ persone were ! Jwhen the Twreant tuliding wan rent) T0Q KILLED, 200 MI i ‘ AW RL he pulidirg collapsed at onde it ie aup-| Linging And leaping, one of them did Moronty and iron girders were hurled) shoving the walle tn on the yun) Aftér an wv witwat uring Gl i) Ss powed (hat Almost i) the dinera were succeed In Ketting outnide the wail, b thd alr and the butidinga In the overing. them with bias whi surmeons and ye | eau ) the restaurant with no mean Where he was captured by @ poltoeman, \ at Aaa Sy a tovhe : The other one, unable to break Ww rool badly shattered, | and chemicata ie : Pu : AT WINDOWS a me t Bifida pree A through, was set upon by the crowd, “LY STRUCTURE ABLAZE, | ‘the arst ot the injured eleven neemen| ui ‘i: nrciovien ind woud have, been badly maltreated | re i . ; ' irk wie greatly jm ot A squad of police come to his + The first explosion wes followed by|Were taken to the New York site : ee add | © of countess Iive othérs and the flames that leaped from} F Van Yandt, adjuster of the Irving Fier LLL cau 4 Rescuing Ladder Was Up , @ atructure, | "por neveral minutes It looked a if @ ie place net fite to the “Ud etrue-| National Hank, opposite Darrant’s, wor oy Pp AABN ahah abechrsa q When the Shock f 4 (9 cut, lynching would add to the horror of the me tm t ' . ; a Poth : them: Gay, but Anadly, with @ beral use of Lire, which Im only about ten feet from|Manding’ in the doorway of the hank) Ty work 1 a Came, ee gro habe and a s0td front, oF blweeoate, the tthe butting AAS" WAR betly al and burned Bibi whi Sa ed eis BANK IN RUINS, |r,rers ‘202 trom sangre way ana The flame, ke & great wave, | Me was hurled into the piace { ne Sis At oneet Aare iletel ” 9 | locked up, Wireed acroen Warren strecet, so that |front of the Wank waa completely j Jin the detria. the crew | 3! Lawyer HJ Andrews, of 89 roads © wreoked, a yi way, and Joseph eck, of M8 Weet o itnelon, bite of maponey andi tron| SMMMHInNC Dewnteon and William] 1 ig thoveht they may be under the)? ° LO BIC Lae nariaa ake Te K we ried over the high butldings inj™: Dunlap, the paying teiler, we | ' rr ee ereeereees © rn ee ePeereenr Cee na rantia building afte fire broke out _¢ Hroadinay an fe In Cnty Mat Par [O¥AI9 ct and Miron | PASSENGERS ENTOMBED. tn fa beter tne expose unre | Irving National Shattered) WITNESSES utahten wi ‘ | Assletant Mecelver Hragdon, who was Andrews saya: "Tl raw at least three nl ss noen ie TOM ee WEKE Alte ie: 1) imine ‘ wine vouth on Washing dogmn sire Aseh out of the building, but by Force of the meee i hearby hospitals and extra surgeone | vd mot to the corner of there must have been many more that Wore Hurried to the soono, Willlam A, Brown, of Ragin 9% wan \ tree! when the i Hata no 1 out hefore the explosion ; Shocks. N howe | Daly nsired 1 It wae winashed \ ae APR oth Scenes of Horror De~- Yo less than pixty girle are thought |" » be amas |DioW everything up Phe fire was on| to have berwin the bulidiog when tt wan| 89 FEAL War the forer of the explo ng But Wethai |the third floor, ne far ne f could #00.) ‘The foursatory bullding of the frving scribed from Many 1 sion that a dray horve a block away ‘i a Polleeman iCelly ang a fir 1 were On Natlona) Tink, on the northeast corner ~_ fant was Billed, Beveral persone in City Hall fonrite oul! Im even or learned of the ft ladder in front of the bullting tring of Warren and Greenwich atreete, dl+! Quarters. he etructure wan at 2 and a) W i i ror pow to got the girlie from the second-atory rectly oppomite the Tarrant eatablishs| Greenwich treet and 1m Warren. The} Park were Injured by falltia debris , | window when the explosion came, ment, was practically wrecked by the firm aeoupied tho whole plade A box of binsing chemicals was eR Ne “The Greenwich street wail of the frat explosion | Stories of eye-witneasae to the éright- hurled over the tall Powtal Telegraph |" ‘ent eaie ae {building ulped out feat. They Jumped Five of the bank's employees were re | 6 explosions and the Ravoo wrought Fate oA Pi bere atta | on T turned to run, What became of Street Hospital. None |oocupanta of the doomed buildings and ‘The witeote wore crowded at the lunch 15 FIREMEN KILLED. SBE RAE GT appearnl to be rant tho girls in the window waiting to be| have been fatally hurt, though all Were | oodestriang pasming along the streets hour, and seversi thousanh versona Fre TL PromeveMuueD: QOH, EN eM ett reacued 1 hate to think.” At frat reported to have been Killed, — | were thrown, ‘They show how the lives @hoked the nearby thoroughfares) Just before the explosion a oman) ' 10 a i Ee a ht <! s . rl Mr, Bewk sald that the girlie were pours) The Injured are: jof many persons were enuffed out In a watching the fire, named O'Neill, who wae injured DY] ar ric iime to get more tt ro ing from the bullding ina atety Wrenn | Barns hratigic ey egret trioe and ey others, Heatee tnd Or ‘ i f eA when the explowion occurte ie anw Was badly c ) ns Ing oF diambled, were carried of 3 Mt sent forth w binokfvolume of smoke | debria while riding In ® Broadway car | peter of thom The pulbweah Gf fase on the mecona| @lase anit other GABF a A first, having cavugit wome chemicals, | eatd that he saw about Afteen firemen | ‘The atreets for neveral Docks were floor, and knowing the nature of the) “en, James Dennison, easter, who! 11 was the most awful experience and dewpite the active work of jhe fire: |on the root of the building nirowr in BPMN BIMBE: A nth atook tn the bullding, he made off the) War lacerated about the hands, head through which | have ever pansed," eald Svea j 5 im, und blood wos epatior ery ~ 7 and body f %61 Monroe street, men, epread rapidly, ‘The crowd spectators who rushed! UPB ABET ; A elevated platform i " Joseph B. Tropper, o| Fis las GRialb: tA! iene. OP Win epee |: Om Ube seerih-et tho) expuselon were BRU WES HAL Reaching the atrwet, he turned back| William N. Duntap, teller, cut by A¥+lig q World reporter, "I waa passing | torent may porwne tn the vi ' and saw the girlie comiag out Just as the! !MK Flare and wuffering from shock, wiong the street during the progress of a, Were Injured ant killed, for tha} cut and bleediie from many wounds Int tine who wer ured 4 roar of the explosion «ent the butlding tn i posbedy sede del CONLUBION® iho fire in the Tarrant store when tho AIA exploded with a terrife report| the face and on the hands. rluen if seins aee " i , | every direction acerated wounds ang shoe heavy explosion came, @ome twelve or HW EhooK the shysorApere on Firoadway | Mre. Mpritt vor Pitt streets! QUENCHING THE FIRE wy STATION FALLS IN WARREN AND [ite said 1: wae his botlot that the ox-| Recalving Teller Qnfiby, badly hurt by ifigon girla, who were walking by at the Gnd pent thousands of fragments Ayling} tan out Int ron attest and wal pital ‘ ! GREENWICH STREETS, | ploale chemieals were all rtored tn the) Wreck of office fuMMfllire ant #OVETEY time were thrown violently to the fn all direct! ‘ x the ft ed tot IKELINWICH o volar of the bullding ant thay the fire, Miceked ground, A number of them were wo = | bown down ve with sof the ‘ traveled with great rapidity up and! The bal is eae aly site the badly injured that they did not get up [the crowd tra 1 her to ; it \ lu ant two! ay ét 3 explosion urred about their ui - soe CROWD IN WILD PANIC, rr * mer Hat of the oo aie at | ial feat tx down the eleva shat dite WAKO WAD 6 unl atler (he devi TWO GIRLS BLOWN UP, Suddenly there way a deafening roar, CUCKOO CLOCKS. Shook of the explomton. and the crowd] Jfonry Cmenanaw at a) ; sili WOMA N WAS ; fe “4 SOR TUS Gea TEFEN We have received a pew sHomeat of of fleeing persons rary " w , Da Lins. gti'the Palldlne: base ,. | these very clocks. ‘The eases are ring hs ae I : ! . ee BLOWN OFF Lirnts Sn" 0" °° liad” atl. Boon the ambilancos anaihe) ana 9 - ' ‘ S A VW/ M A N Y The bank's wiidows wore blown. into | movemsate are guaranteed to Keep Wp, And the Work of looking for {he Ine ined, ‘1 a F hii atl Ferre cis tow ‘Alrestly at the | Small Cottage dtslen st.» 00 4 and dead was beg t oung wore Je E | busy offe als, injuring tose mentioned, Carved with bird and leaves + 200 wPared HG Geen was beg qONRE iN J U R D, Hurled Through the Alt] rhe win lrembied, the oor sagged Garyed with leaves and deer’s head 10.00 The firemen shown midity in and Hture geemed to fy APA, | Oe estes from 12,00 to 75.00 flihting the blaxe, aa thie frst explos ‘ - and Clothing Torn inf ier arts pinning rome of the | Other designs trom tO lean Whe followed by others w w A . A fi m : ; : ‘Those in the bank Kept thelr presence i ‘ At tte sngne r Yw Eye-Wilness Describes Into Shreds, of mind, ant the money. and books were att I bur mass areat ys Jean y ' tw M rushed Lo the cellar yaulia in nagety, ° One hundred and twonty ghein we t vatmarl ant ’ Scene in the 1 amma Under the Irving Tanke waa the ppt i, Lhe ARS alr Wa atrea vate bank of Meepiln Bron, co Mecies lk Pas sirean ' standing tw Street. Capt. Van Raden, whose place of huat-|'Thore wns about fan in bills and Jeraeer and leer It was dinner hour and many of them ‘ 7 , 7 nem ie at Sif Washington street, and)! ie Het rete atone the §2 WEST 14TH . May have gone out to their I 4 i 1 ns tr he explo» — @ veteran of the clvtl war, saw fib said by employers they over hai? MANY IN BURNED HOTEL. War A How one eight Tolan lephena wan standing on the] g9 paid to an Bvening World reporter of them were in the habit of eating : Nuskleyia Wt 1i'tig-hound ade] Chad been Anished four OF ondway and Miteray Atreet lige it wan the most horrible thing he the building. ‘Those qirin w street, | ' noocurred. He) over witneaned, far surpaesing any ex out to lunch, were frant blown toto! Met @ ike fn wasn toy the] It POR SHELORD TRONS wary A block D044 | nepenge he had had during the war yb " and at see MC ching Women TUNDIME) wien he had een magazines and forte ing the fate of thelr companions \ | * {nim ; bigwh 16 plowed BP eaihos, , Phey returned and learned the t . | ere were some men in the YING) Aimoat immediately after the explo- the vere jest hed ia | M E N BLO W N trong, alls ceding {OM OMe | gm he perceived a woman close by hie Tho giris aay that the Ta 4 ow Var | ‘ 2 ‘ ; alr sinning place, stngwering about. Her dress was e must have the ‘open door” in China, ets, wan femol Fol fF aire Otvere Hel ap bleeds torn to shreds and she was bruised and tricted trade, Good! But {hg Was stocked from root | . ° hands and unrestricted trade, Gi | 5 4 been o with ammonia ‘ IN A H EAP, sudtonty,” he anys, “eee terrific peri Ayes! Mag tg oon we have It already at the corner of Nassau and Mor blocks about die burning ouitdine | . if = ' A column OFT ourred, coming down the stairway, She Ann streets, Step in and see, We are show: the streets wore ie | ; J would | ; ‘rel feot In thO) role hernelt seited aw by some titanic ing Suit and Overcoat patterns In variety not Wh hvater Diners in a Restaurant mn AIMOM | Foo@ and hurled through ihe aif, alight. elsewhere attempted, culters and men \ oe ‘ » . T F reet bewillered and on the) } tailors are working them up Into garments bleeding, biackene nd t Nuh Carried Thirty Feet emed to foek, and that stamp our customers at once as correctly garments tor § by Explosion hough | was three blocks from the fire, t F rvvd by] dressed men, and we are doing It by modern, Tweive ambulences wore called—thre CALL FOR DOCTORS. FOUR POLICEMEN KILLED, et ate Sv FY BiBtABlage Seem eae IDA AUS What he could to sueoor the wom. | large calibre tailoring methods, in which high » haiti rid ; Holt | " hatiered and fell crashing into the Senbulande came ed and phe prices have no place. jouver from Hudson arly f ite r t whane. eomomileeto: pps was hurried to a howpltal at once, from Believe wand two from the Now! Sashes. thor : ute Horptial war Prank 880 of panic, People rushed from RESTAURANT | OVERCOATS Perfect Style. York. The sure ad thath hands) Harty Robe my : a S Park aveniie, Hoboke ee eae read (Conceded Vaiue, $900: full streot, sald 1 ‘ WAP Ile wan t the head and eutte treet hey saw a pile of | Fresh importations in Striped Cassimere and Unfinished Worsted, in | tne from shook Halo" nfen? een! DEAT RAP. | Yorings, ineluding the new shades of Cobweb Gray, . the corner when the expie men elarted t ie ‘7 + "tee t (he burning wali . special designs and colorings, Viewna, Thibet and Diagonal KEPT BACK THE CROWD, |ito was diown svcut tw ¢ : i {IB London Fog and Deep Indigo, also eb ee ; ad Made Rest the tear of explosion the that will not gloss, Heavy weights in Melton, Kersey, English Worsted The reserves from ton procinots were!” ' - . a rescue of the «ald Phe explosion blew brea Laat when | and Whipcord. Everything done on the house premises by skilled men tailors, ig throwgh ¢ r 4 ial Co hy At Wh Ve a rrived r q Prdered out and Inspector Hrooks took) ine flames ait way uplf aceauh to Mae Miteeatae Me ae get Larough the pret taator Man ® Explosion Buried Many lag (aig pbaree. Sh tawd was not allowed to! "The amt mm w occurred, If] rear 1 "2AVnen the Amoké! Itt we could: wae In This Lunch Co Cor, Nassau and t Within two blocks of the bull umber for the work, and four pat . ' h yum ber other diye one DARK Of the. bur wall men and i ' "| wagons. were daapatened tu‘carty aWay'| Aart DOKBINEY A number, of osher agvere. werd hen on the toole of aifreendtngs Ann Sts. N, Y. # ‘ * ‘ : , thrown Jn & heap near me and for hi dundings whe had: fed there, beowuce : ‘Sia Rha datdssion, WAAR ice the avin and Indure a Pr A re now burted | tow etunned while the | ex 0 ha surge wale cal oft isk -Don't be misted by signs made to imitate our busi. our minutos after the fire atart-| from the Madson, the Wir Sievin, who was in theling and ground’ Willer te, ' tran ness or methods. Remember we occupy the entire building, al firemen mounted the ‘“L/ rand the Wert falley at the aide of the bullding Nélping| There were about is pereonstn ¢ Sts, # to HDL the bipee, tons, Die air Fe-eponpe blown ‘piace and the Cinert my. “elt Bai a Caused by | Structure, | ‘biown oft B the explosion HUNDREDS KILLED AND INJURED IN DISASTER. 4 R HURLED FROM FIRE ESCAPES, ‘ iver Hart enehed away ference over the Blige inques!aii be and paratively slight Injuries, down us. Toe orlew of the injered ’ i sai cll a iil ladle , ma cone! peewee a bebe bbbeebe b| Peilcoman M Selly, Who Was ON) wore drown: | Dy the MOWe Of (he OX G44441440FObbOOb ODE DOOD ODO DODI DEDEDE DEE money, but | Ter a | the A? (reonw tot, | plow! ndove fd weet 4 »| pl “4 by the en . ) ites “4 taco’ and hands) “When | found 1 could move T erept § TlaBe be nttyine National tank was " : t AGT ie (ow i and had to eo ; lee the ‘lec ae Adi Deere ant Miver ¢ { , ' eroated uy 4 en over persons held down by beame an \rumored' Inter that mer hogan tt wa \ § ‘ tried yy X f ‘ i teurmes t 08 wre hnce aoe Viverybody @ [the bank, UL this wae without teontin 4 mit H seomed |) be for help. and the op P Hen, ‘ , ' Ape A 4 one who were | bd ’ Yad } i tne cellar ot the ‘Irving Boat nai c THE WORLD: MONDAY EKVENLNG, OCTOBER 29, 1900, Y EXPLOSIONS; HOUSE WRECKED were removed yy Charles |Truck No Majowaky, Ne rescue was ty Mie Tarrant Buliding and when the alr we d with flying debris JAjoweky FRONT WALL |: RENT OPEN. "in nike my WAY to the Aber explosion as T ! Sand Y rushed down Greenwic! rong of people fll from the concus ot, and when opposite the tm! . ‘ 4 crle® for aly “com! “4 a emir oft Many Shocks in Succes-| sw Wein RAPER ihe Dutiting. a: . ' i th e, glon—Started On Third |ivink on the wre apparent! Te dl lll H = wh re arour “T found In the ar «IX persone wh ‘ Floor, 1 whould think th) perrooe were Killed \f come dow trom the upper oare i Tt wan a yerrli.o experien re, and ‘ullding for safety. ‘They were on ; val for help, f them were injured H 1 am surpr i tha to have oy Eve h pealy Two of thew ©) The binve wtarted on the third floor. [been saved tenth, were Women. and others who eam Ti Within four minutes Names « Ae le me Creenwich street to assiated them to videwalk, We bat to almort carty tWo, Alter they got they hal to take tare ot hempelvon, a | ae there were ambulances coming dow! p | theatres little way up they went in that direction,’ ALMOST A LYNCHING. Frantic Mob Tried to String Up Negro Ghouls. btn i ; 4 H 4 OOess-> nee ae ee 060000466<-22665¢0 While the fire was at its helghe and the ncenes of hy enacted two negroes were caught In the act of j |bicking pockets and rolling the dead Immediately the mob became furtous- flit hast & block, but eHeaped woth com> While the cellite and walle