The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1910, Page 4

by 4 . (‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1910. ) MIRACULOUS ESCAPES IN ZONE OF EXPLOSION | | AT THE SCENE OF DEATH © MANY ODD INCIDENTS DUE TO THE POWER-HOUSE WRECK AND HAVOG IMMEDIATELY Z |GLASS STREWS CHILDREN IN NURSERY Y; NOT ONE HURT. Ceilings Fall and Doe Doors Blown Down in Child’s Queer things happened to nearly everybody within a mile of the ex- — 0 Pe ae floor, He felt that he had been pushed over by @ heavy current of air, For a sine ne | good rubbing po: the subestation were at breakfast tn S esas ae ae wea | 7 tia in the : puawion, Hunan nature worked t |WATindow Blown In on a Patient in Dentist’s|he was unavie to neu anything Wccaler ur Hele or Be to 4 ew of the incidents which cough : Hy | the attention op The Brentny World Chair—Shoe Wrenched From Hand harness tn Yrent ef the house. of Mock | Babi ; reporters: Cc and Ladder No. 2, diagonally opposite Babies Are Hit. Bh The etudente of the Bible Teacher# of a Cobbler. the power house. He had just stretched | Hj ‘Training School across the atreet trom se whe eens eke a Gea ek | glass came hurtling through the air and ere were nildren New | sistant, im the , nursery, ground floor dining room. Every | bartendér unconscious on the floor be-|do; tn fact they had more jobs offered | 6, “al ¥ N ry and Chik oxpital at {and were jeved to find every window Was blows avant the becee|hind. tte bar, He had dropped trom |than they could accomplish. “They. hired SO AR te een | Srrepesbe atta es teratnunen Gouin |Get yaliiited: althaeen Coed | and faces GF ERC SUdaner a Che vows Ct | Seeeiain Wai RAMP: Small oye 10 buy glam and putty et Y-first street and Lexington avenu ; , although ‘f tables nearest the street. ‘The students Steree ig Zhird avenue and made thelr! saegeniel: Hofnal aivd Samninels of | UCMOt USS of them was Gurt, although) (oy oon Coe” OF ine seine: had : : bead iy - Peter Schwanz, a cobbler. was aitting |own prices to property owners and fac B glass and plaster fell all about then plast vart of the ceiling had || Victimsand Wreckage Strewn Along $n: wom tareret| 4? ¢*haen" ie so tre os hr ees, [worse fader ot wong ona [a ad ler fa aout in| fovtmaty he oe we fi 0 thelr feet and firet realized the dan- | hered in tie! yl bet ebiah Raab flat | (:Laxington avenue working on a wo- —r j ses war . ae j not in that part of the room. FS ger of the others by seeing the table ‘The front door of the house at No. |, Woman wi caught by the fol nursery on the second floor at the time nN . . . { ma@n‘6 shoe, The shoe was viown out | : | of her long black Ss e extent of the damage | Streets Between Mud-Spattered, linen all along the stricken table turn | of hfe tand acrese the shop and through |1# East Forty-ninth etreet, occupied by fot be Mike cut, Ave aot ines. of the explosion. There were 1 adults | was learned the children were taken to Ing red before thelr eyes. ‘There was] a back window. He waa unturt excep: J: H- Wynn and a block away, was| Tit ve, Hopman had « penknife ced |! the house, fifty of them being mi lon the Fifty-first street side 4 rush to bandage the hundreds of cuts| tar slivers of glass, | explosion. tn tne upper rooms estlings ere, the others nurses and em Windowless, Bulging Walls— ” while Fireman Sammett tried to hold of the buildin its and scratches and then those who were} " Ree incoked Gown A Sonne ngs | the hair so that It would cause the| ‘THE nurses were having breakfast om |p. gunn Mune resident phyal- ; * [not hurt went out to help the victims| Sag Mary Moore, proprietor of | auieep on one of the upper floors, His| Woman the least pain, Hoffman sawed |the first floor when the building shook. | jay, Sad Just stepped vut of his toons a Rescue Corps Fights Crowd Who were tinprtsoned In the oar sdundey at No. OO Lexington avenue, feet End teem were cut oy elaan from a |i of. The lone coll of hate ie ax the [Windows fell” out ard dows wee! wiry the ting Rr at te eta a . ee she ng) ee lace found. the window. ee Toba: wists Wena wrenched from their fastenings, wh ore blown He had walked airecdy ° T™ e 7 , | Sent Kaocked in. —n 0 @ hospital silghtly injured. ts of ite ere torn off, Th , Taltse olla eee er a danish oc ke is Woot Forty sevens || tittle Tommy O'Connell, her de-| Wijiam Grace has an antique shop — Look Preset Ey the Huperi cident lea’ tragic atwneed sie tic: oaane Oh ‘The writer of this, an Evening World reporter, reached the corner of Fiftieth 5 ry boy, had opened the store before | at No, G19 Lexington avenue. Not only| Clocks tm the neighborhood of the ex- | 4 ' eo ned OURS Whee ae ait, , rtreet, 1s on the Lexington avenue aide| the gxpioaion, There Was NO eign Of| were ‘hin, whadnie’ blocn: lay tet raelplosion stopped at various timess Meat | Mis# Hunt, and Estelle Dixon, her crash a J © street and Lexington avenue a very few minutos after the explomon occurred. | of his apartment. He had & patient in! hint, She sem word to his parents that | giags prisms were blown from’ the chan- | Of them stopped within a minute or two | ’ He is going to try to tell what he saw and heard during the next hour. the chair and was preparing to remove! he wag either dead or hurt. In looking deliers and secon aft s hanging from the 8.16 o'clock, The stilled hands of over the damage she opened a clothes ‘ 4 ilings and wall others point to &% and later. One or Yoming out of the subway at the Grand Central Station you woukl never T im . = “Steady,” he said to the patient, “it] press @t the back of the shop. Tommy ound two stand at 810. This diversity is| have guessed that anything out of the ordinary had been happening less than} , i) only be @ second.’ was Indt on the floor, whimpering gent-| Jo)n Thomas, 4 man of ddvanced age, | Partly due to their being fast or slow | half a mile away. The eddying tides of city life flowed on unceasingly. But t He yeached. for the tooth with the! He eaid he Vue dab yer? Ba bev eating breakfaat with “his daugiter,; and partly to the fact that not all ot | WORKED TO SA VE OTHE at = around the corner into Lexington avenue you began to find | forceps. Just. then. the window-aash, {ofthe World abd that the devil would | ars, James ®. BNea, at No. $60 Lexing-| them were disarranged enough to stop RS hy moment you swung P bs indow-sash. | pot find him there ax quick as out in/ton avenue, received full in the face the | them immediately, | © Yourself within the zone of disaster | 9 and all cane, dn Splinters of front. Me Rad been waiting an hour. |coffee pot from ‘which Mrs. Shes, on a 0 $¢0——-——- Bh Paw ote é explosion had been c ined “ k up In the patient's face. the other aide of the table, was fillin. William Poetschke, whose name ap-| Seemingly the main volume of the explosion had been confined to the atrip | Ble stuck up in . i | ’ ‘ea ~rlfeaetcetonstageitbertioe arte pag eye aeneehnambartey Dr. Pimenta putled them out despite the| George Burnett of No. 617 Lexington his cup. Mra. Shea was blown out of | Peared in the earlier lists of dead, 1s in Didn’t Know How Badiy He Was Hurt WwW. Wa running north and » ra . il He hae Island, patient's strug) But when the| avenue told of steing a woman seventy | her chatr, . position to repeat Mark Twain's fa- ‘ 4 nile side streets this far down were undamaged the up-and-down thorough- ' yours 1 up the avenue 1 pate “ pus rk y PS Fae ta “rere. P| patient's tace was cleat ot) lass. be | yeare, 14, SaEET ano, sthoke carrying | Aide "GAMGATUE/Crowih a Muadit in|enammrrnted” Willem Poctaotbe’ te He Was Hurled From Car So atin . | ‘ » wath 'S)q full grown girl bigger than herself.| the Bible Teachers’ Institute, was comb-| very . H » Pi . 1} )} > WRECKAGE STREWN HALF A MILE. jand firmly and hastlly walked out. Iis}ong gnother instinct had apparently | ing her bafr in front of a mirror in her! His br Paul, happened to be in} He Piiched ie. i As far south as Forty-second street the sidewalks were littered with the | ‘oth didn’t hurt any more he sald. surged ap in the aged womkys heart foots on the Ae oor | The shock of! the vicinity of the Bast itty-Arst atreet stan i nts of blown out window «i the aides o " . and had made her forget that the girl/the explosion blew in the window and Station after the explosion and looked 4 “4 4 splintered fragments of blown out window glass and ithe sides of houses were | req sturh, the proprietor of a saloon | was grown. broke the mirror. An open Bible on the over the bodies the: He identified! Policeman Francis Kelly of the ' yd of me and nd me Mh « qrusted with drying street mud, like the walls of 4 Missesippi River levee town jar No, 4a Lexington avenue, had just _— dresser was thrown to. the floor. Nearly |one as that of Willlam, who was work- | Pitty-first eis: 7 i “with the 4 : a 8 th jor. 2 q ot e st street station, who after the spring rise subetd * 3 he or Aida Tamorbus*with the sffitks Of | startet his two little boys for the public} Within hatf an. hour afte? the ex-/all the doors in the Hible Teachers’ | img, he sald, at the Grand Central sta- reported tt ps in . 8 of cenes attending the fire engines and the ringing of ambulance bells, cons of policemen sent from | gonoo} opposite the wrecked power |plosion “glasa-put-in”. men: began to| Training School were blown off their] tion. The ientifiedtion went on the Gead in the fF b of trolley car say thar { far away precincts were marching up the slushy céntre of Lexington avenno in| iouse, He waa not dressed, The shock |s¥arm to the scene frém all over town, | hinges. official records. counts of the explosion, is wer | Kell pite his broken le rked Mke tailitary formation, Every time the outlying skirntish posts of the p Mnes | knocked him down He thrust thts ‘tes By noon there were a couple of dozen _ After getting to ‘his office Paul was, Hospital in a bad way. His is « Wild man at. the until ire » opened to let a newly arriving squad of reserves through there was a Bro? | intrinin'eeoudete andj-in Vib aeiuaee, enterprieing Blaziers measuring and pui-| | Walter, Tayior, eMattealer in parquet | not so aure moot ny identification. | He! broken, he has internal injuries, and his | f@inted. Deputy P missione t hout to get or 5 It rte windows anc hera were ar-| floors, who was at his desk in his store | concluded call up the New York Elec. sco! ed the ded po! BUUEL tews survives the erie baie amy way, b0 cupposes ane was a survivor—| With his feet bare, ran out into the avin} wagons, . if stregt cars and lat No. 600 Lexington avenue, a prope mpanys the cone face ahd neck are gashed & aad orered r a get was @ white-faced girl, of perhaps twenty, with a jagged shallow cut in on |street and found the boys, unhurt. When | on foot. the shook knooked over his chair and | his brother is employ: by Mone Sr ible surgical attention, eve ¥ . of Dp 3 © n / ri ith ; m “T was ridi nou! necessary to ¢ (i fice Bho was cunning down the middie of the sloppy road oblivious of the |N® feturned to the saloon he found his} ‘The Glaziers found plenty of work to|fitmesif and stretched itm fat on the | answered the phone. pe aoe on vent thould be nece ary to calliia fire #pparatus, the patrol wagons and the other city vehicles that clanged | ———————— ing World rep at fousness, b side past her, She ran into a drug store and begged a clerk to get somebody or other on the telephone and te!l that her mother had been hurt. As she gave the end of the world had come. ‘That was my first thought—that ft was the end [Platform talking to the conductor POLICEMEN, NURSES, PRIESTS, at once I was picked up and blown oft is b hurt he has 9 of the world and that everything was over.” | : ¢ certain names which could not be heard she collapsed in a faint. A little knot |” the platform and into t tution and a lot of grit, and 4 of people stood about her, staring stupidly at the inert figure iying on the |, Ai! Sdout were tall houses with their fronts bulged far out of plumb. The tes Was t rcteee agniow ¢ pines bull’ nist tee es half-melted slush of the streets had been picked up and veneered all over the ca heer. rm winter sun- |ATTEND THE DEAD AND DYING, walls clear to the roofs, where it was rapidly drying in the giasn to be ween, House after empty, lke eye-sockets in skulls. iixity. The human keynote of the picture seemed to be benumbment, “quickly examining each of these persons. get up miffly, like automatons run by that went southward between the double way. Many of them staggered. had been was just a sloping wall of broken brick, with @ twisted, * ruin hed the look of a huge c! reoal burner's Ieil » out twin stacks standing high in the ¥! You could stand at the Lexington avenue end and look through the 1 | _ of the wrecked wing from end to end. All its fittings were ripped away. bodtly~ ‘The twisted metal rod of an umbrella, with the handle intact, but the ribs|the doorman and mation were busy | ysms of grief and horror. of the blast, There was a heavy cur- | or yon trhan it Was as empty and hollow ay a shelled pea pod or the rind of a well-cleaned | gone, was bent at an angle into a window jamb of the Children's Hospital at| dragging bed clothing down from the Scene in Trolley Car. tain at the window, His overcoat was Ant wattrmeion. The false flooring upon which it had stood was sunken to an angle | Fifty-frst street. . The front of an antique dealer's shop between Fitty-first {dormitories to make pallets on the floor] Father McQuade was at. ‘breakfast |hanging of a chair between the bed and | of twenty degrees and the girders below were pressing upon the crushed roofs |and Fifty-second streets was entirely gone, but a big Oriental rug that had |of the platoon room. The space in the) with several other priests in the clergy {the window. Curtain, coat and other TO “THOSE WHO of some of the parked dead cars on tho «idings down In the cut. tna hanging in the show window was in place and undamaged. ‘The dealer |ileutenant's room in front of the 4e8K| house at the Cathedral when the shook {clothing were blown over him and the DO NOT KNOW US Down below there was a nighinare jumble of wreckage, so interwoven and |drew the ends of the rug out and pinned {t down and so made a closed front to |is very narrow. {rocked the table before them broken plagter and glass fell on tor {Hl Our Store: San Franei _ twisted and distorted out of its original » e that the eye could pick out | protect his goods. Policemen hurrying back 4 report, t0) «1 am a better runner than most of |Covering them six Inches de His land orga. in, + se _ no detail. It was a maniac mix-up, Endy of broken pipes, twisted and bent Dazed men and women, mostly theological students and future missionaries, |take new orders, physicians of the/my drothers,” said Father Mequade, |heler, Emil Bresler, ran in from a (|[atmost everpwhare, and new wn ) Tose from the surface like snakes. Girders were tled into knots. Torn-out ends | were still coming out of the Bible Teachers’ School, just back of the fire house. | neighborhood calling for passes which | «ang distanced them to Lexington ave. |Rearby room, took one look at the bed [Ihave Senea ee i ee » Of cars protruded their splintered ends planking upward, in chevaux de frive, |The explosion had caught them as they left the breakfast table, and while none | would admit them to the fire lines, the | nue, 1 ran at once to the wreck of {44 then rushed out and told that Wen- | |lyork City. There was ® rough suggestion of barricade and breastwork along tiv edges, | was badly hurt, hardly one of them had escaped injury from whizzing needles | first of the frightened people who came | the trojiey car, When I got there there |SerFath was dead. Policemen came for Our Finous Ortentel Basan where brick and mortar and wood and metal had been piled up in windrows by tf broken glass and volleys of small debris, Many were holding table napkins |to ask ‘“‘who was hurt"—all these were! way only one man in the car. He was |! body half an hour later and found ‘Harry the largest variety of the ground ewell from the explod force. Viewed from the street level, sixty | to their bleeding faces, ‘They stumbled over the writhing, lines of rubber fire | crowded to one side, every moment OF) 4 policeman, and seemed to me to be| te Man unhurt, but tremoling with | Chinese and Japanese goods to be f feet above, the figures of the firemen and laborers, half hidden ax they were, | hose, splashed in the puddles and made thelr way southward in a stream, |two, to make room for # pitiful, man-) dead, ‘There were eight or nine women, | fear beneath his heavy overlid, fearing (H}found anywhere and imported * by dust, and wrapped in smoke, | unreal, even under the dazzling sun-| ‘The police opened the lines to let them through, and closed them up again as|gled wreck. ‘Two were dead, to move, direct by us, in quantities that shine, the last of the procession passed, It was only ® moment before the| “One was Miss Mary B. Pope, a ee rr enable many price concessions, * PIFTY-FIVE ESCAPE MIRACU. ou. There wan tremendous confusion all this time, One police official would order | clatter of ambulance bells filled the| teacher in Miss Chapin's private echoo JERSEY TROLLEY MEN RAISED ||] sctect Your Holiday Gifts Now « i e pitas “a L SLY. a lengthening of the fire tines and another higher in authority would come | streets, accompanied always by the/in East Fifty-elghth street. A splinter Open Evenings Until Christmas High up on the bare wall of ihe An eye-witness said (hat fifty-tive Se aeaniy 2 with a sheer drop of ; ae of Sagi explosion, coming | 4 who occapled the 5 | SEEMED LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD. The man who told this story said sim “4 don't know whether 1 beard any noe or not, At just seemed to me ‘There was scarcely a whole pane of window | house showed the window casings hollow and | Women with shawls wrapped around their ‘eade stood in these window openings, looking out with @ sort of stunned, dazed A couple ‘of ambulance surgeons In white Jackets ran from figure to figure, Mainly they were suffering from shock and nothing more, for at a word from some one in authority they would clockwork and join the procession afoot lines of vehicles speeding the other To the westward, unscarred and undamaged, reared the tall sides of the power-house proper, with its enorm- shell main power house a long scaffuiding sti * clung, flabbing crazily from the steel tackle that held it to the roof cornice, klayers were at work side by side on this ps forty feet to the roof of the while, The pward frei the heart of the cratep below, hip ataffokl back-ugainet (he wall like a tiited upper berth on a sleeping up Acroas Lexington avenue stood the crumpled and shaken quarters of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2 Three long sticka of rafter, travelling together, | the dormitory on the second floor. The ends protruded over the littered side- 4 twisted mass of metal and leather and rubber, and just beyond that in turn was the ruin of the street oar where four victims met thelr death. The roof of the car was dented down flat amt the sider were literally torn out, but the trucks stood upright and, strangely enough, the wheels were etill flat and plim> upon the ratie, ‘There was @ crowd about thie car, and men were underneath it, tugging at lot of yellow wooden drawers, some with metal handles on them and fragments of pasted Inbels still adhering to their painted surfaces. They looked like pieces of drawers from a drug store, and yet there waa no drug store nearer at hand than @ block away. along & moment later and issue contrary instructions, eo that the policemen— there seemed to be hundreds of them—wouldn’t know what to do. But the fire- n, with Chief Croker to boss them, ‘were keeping thelr heads better. Under went leadership they were fighting the {intermittent fires that constantly out/and shifting the wreackage in the hunt for more bod! close personal friend of Col, Roosevelt. He has been in om was said to-day WASHINE nd PON, Deo. 19.—Nenator Root tative Cocks of the Oy' for two terms, and that he would eprene at be had passed entirely through the brick wal! of the fire-house, at the level of | The explosion shook up, the old East Fifty-first street station, on the north side of East Fifty-first street between Lexington and Third avenues, one of of policemen, buckling their belts as they ran, came pouring out of the big double doors while people's ears were still ringing with the shock As the first of them turned into Lexington ave: nue, he stopped and staggered when he saw the stretch of ruin, and he turned yond the worst force of the shock, which employer, C, T. ‘The police took the car for use as @ temporary ambulance. Two and three | at a time, injured persons, were lifted into it end whisked to the statloy, where screams of excited women and children who were alwaye scutuling from under the hoofs of the horses. ‘The matron and the doorman were soon aided by blue gowned, white- aproned nurses from the Childs’ Nur- “Good, girls; keep tt uw explosion was in the Cathedral itself, He learned from Police Headquarters where it was and how terrible. to St. John’s Church in Mifty-fitth street, and St. Agnes's in Forty-third street that all priests be sent into the shaken district. workers up and down Lexington ave- nue stood a priest ready to bend over the body of the victim as soon as he was reached. Several of them came to the station house, and while one or two were within, murmuring com- ‘affected the clamoring hundreds who were walting for news of persons sup- posed to have been hurt so that many fainted and others went into parox- of wood had entered her It seamed to me that tt was not deeply imbedded and that if it were taken out she might become conscious so that would be justified in administering the last rites of the Church, But ehe was quite dead, The splinter had gone deep some out Patrick's Cathedral. The air was lit- Jaden with mud, dust, plas and objects of every con- erally I woke up I waa in the hospital. “Thet's ali I know about it. 1 conidn’ hear anything and | couldn't see imuch for the blood in my eyes from cu! my head and forehead. dican't dese! on LANTERN NEAR WRECK | OF GAS PIPE GIVES NEW PROBABLE CLUE. REPORTED AS DEAD, aked network | decoration. It wae seid that a young girl, a clerk in this store, had escaped with | floor, which had been vacated by the 7 14 of steel rafters lying along the slope, and through innumerable crevices small | her life. It didn't seem possible. Was: teling she sam Ambulance injured. Bur 1s FOU! D ALI y E | columns of smoke were gushing, so that, viewed from the Fiftieth street side, the Seventy-five feet up Lexington avenue, past the corner, were the fronts of a Auto Used mM : Tho shocking condition of the dead] ARTEHR EXPERIENCE. August Wengerrat room at No, 1% the building that took the hardest blow 83,500 Motormen and Conductors to Get a Cent an Hour More, The Public Service Ratl of Newark, which prac all the trolley lines In New Jersey, lias announced an increase of wages which ay cally Compan controls It makes a Fine Salad Drossiik @ad Fish Sauce by adding vinegar. At Delicatessen & Grocery Stores, 10 CENTS, Spoon with Bottle, Tldnd flattened her against the rear wall of her room. Ax she ran | eae ~~ | Word of the disaster was received | ‘The shock of the ‘concussion wi \2 Henni ‘ | Siinseen force like @ tremendous hand reached in throug \ ANOTHER TERM FOR YOUNGS. Taft to-day relative to the reappoint aie ar Be pegs Pall PANS secs harem Salieri | | Henning Player Pianos a | id Pe derked her forwarfl again, so that she was almost drawn through the ope ment of William J, Youngs as United | in person, The shock of the explosion | looked out, A great mass of debris ic af P } TERMS TO SUIT. Wg || This chair and the pictures off the wails and a row of books came with | hoot Sees “Taft in Interest of| States District-Attorney for the eastern! nad been so severe there that the | was rising and spreading. It ascended Have you tried it Bench, stool, cover and 12 rolls 5 Shit was the suction of the vacuum tn the alr following the explosion Per ner district of New York, Mr, Youngs is a Archbishop at firet thought that the |to the height of the twin spires of St, It's Good for Hot & Cold Meats. | . # Pena walnale, | | was stunned for while. | A motor ambulance AWune into position Alongside the side entrance to the | shine in a sort of ghastly yellow caricature of frost pictures. ‘The gush of When I came to I was « post. SENEE tree potlconsen, GS AAUOT GAG ADT a AibRTENeReA thas oes Layee Xt) fame must have extended upward and outward in @ faniike spread, for even 1 could see people rut dive ¥ i lon hand anc cir way throug! ; ed black, | ga r er o | 4 hundred feet away wooden doorjambs and window sashes were sear . ia * ang, ce ok 4 II the swinging doors tearing a tretser on which Wan Iaid a al AgUre, covered | "ty some ttances crumbling ime, earl iOld Fitty-first Street Station-House Turned| ot knowing 1 was nurs 1 gut on| 4 ; sat . You could hardly make your way about the street for the broken glass and; * bree den aon ne ae ited Tato backend. of the wagon, ME RT*Y Manket a* the vurten ling debris. Ploces of planking en and twolve feet iong and splintered into Into a Hospital and Later Into ettiesl Oras bait bh Rood eRe! aad, i| bi ia is od tale gtd Javelina were lying criss-cross everywhere. There were crumpled sections of M was back working at the wreck of the | 7 “LONG VISTA OF WRECKAGE. xalvanized metal roofing rattling underfoot. Across Fiftieth etreet the house a orgue. car again when suddenly £ began to i. aie From this point up the avenue was one long vista of wreckage, all testif: os eee were pock-marked where flying fragments had knocked the face off the 13 . on 29 eR voce gonsclo New Skin Remedy Promptly Dis- a - je, eet wful pain a@ Inted away. Vhen | mutely 40 the eof the thir }wlazed brick work, | poses of All Surface Skin Affections. CURES ECZEMA QUICKLY ‘ 3 From the Cathedral Mgr. iy t how T w mo ‘ ‘alk Ifke s stuck in pasteboac!. So tightly were they wedged that two > wir gr. Lavelle | just how I went off that car “ at . ‘All along the way men nd womed and children were squatted down on the ine Me ncvitg from thé inskle, could not budge them. Hopes phage tol pede a canted led a squad of his assistants. A few | a big smash somewhere and then | onthe a remedy is available Y's edge of ‘the sklewalk.* Most of them were holding their hands to thelr heads, pig tela. (Hd Bek abeGh ba AUTOM WAAL Sea Onan eruihed fied) Ww minutes later, behind every group of a m, which in all skin troubles | Stops itching and accomplishes cure }80 rapldly and readily, there is really no reason why suct. affections should be allowed to go unchecked, parti |larly as no one fs asked to purchas | po without first obtaining ani n | fort and absolution to the worst in-|_ Fire Marshal Kelly and As. t Fire | trying one of the free trial packages WALLS BULGED ALONG AVENUE. posddeyantey ot the Lite. aed Chad babinbicgdatae ty per Parga pellacolg to cry: ne God's sake, |JUre4 victims, others went out into| Marshal Kitgallon, inv the mall to any one who wil! Nearing the corner where tho explosion occurred, the evidences of the ilghty | Mere ye uetene rabded tiattiy te tenieceat aie cab vtneee |. “Come on fellows; tor Go's SAK | the wtreet and helped the few avail.|*F@kage this afternoon, to the Emergency Laboratortes, / foree of the crash multiplied unceasingly, Huge boards of the temporary side- | astoay: ested hie wi ly tog Te . y came th hurry ” ane oeseus veneer able policemen calm the grief-crazed praeies lantern within Sth street, New York City. . walks on the eastern side of the avenue flanking the railroad excavations were |.” hi ‘ ‘ore they se mob which surged outside, parted | the buffer around which the imarily intended for th? lifted podily and stood up jn, the air with the long wteel spikes stuck out re} There had been until this morning @ itttle candy shop on the ground floor |ene chaos they were met by @ rush of| every moment by the galloping rush (the explosion was sp . of eczema, acne, tetter thelr ends, The broken lags wa 40 thick that it made a thick covering under- of « house in Fiftieth street, directly facing the power house win Ked isyprneed wounded men, They carried several toler an ambulance or the tooting of | the lantern and ay all other forms of ite), * foot, into which one’s feet sank over tho soles of the #hoes. Mterally nothing was left. As well as one might Judge from the looks of things tne station. Others walked, helped! Warren's providential auto that it had been n , poslam promptly cures all th Ata phe ‘Were: trHia’ with a sort of feeble eneray to drape torn @ here, the contents had first been blown to powder and plastered against the back | aiong by those who were dazed more injured Give Way a raeillss bea He aR Peay Satan eu aR 0 ‘ape torn down j = ke 8 ' a all and then wiped off again, aa by @ tremendous suction pump, and tossed out | nan hurt. ~ . r4| blotch 4 ‘ curtains apd counter covers over the displays of goods in thelr blown out win- | ™' than When tho direct trips of the am-|, OMmials of the rai ured lotches, fever blisters, ced dows, Wats were bulzed, same snward and some outward. And always in ihe |‘? street through the gaping hole where the door and the single window| Up to the Root ot molloeenes. Gases Dulances to the Norliale sweee cots (ehe Fire Marshal t lan- {noses, inflamed skin, rash, herpes. upper windows stood the stil! ‘Mrurcs of dazed women. had been, a big automobile, iten! 7 8 Naat be. | the injured and dying in the station tern was carried around the wreck of sunburn, clears the complexion an! ‘When you came into full sight of the building where the explosives wore set GIRL BLOWN ALIVE FROM WRECK. named Warren. He had be house were removed to the hospita: the buffer after the as pipe was broken. | keeps the skin in healthy condition off tt was hard at first glance to realize that it had_over been a bullding et-ell The last of the injured was carried| TH? lantern was ti be nee Poslam is sold by all druggists, pay. K part of the back wall stood Jagged and broken along the top and ire Oh tho sidewatk was a derby hat broken in the crown and with a red smear | Werturned venioleeiie 8 Rivet seyge, | OUt Just as the first body was brought | Warters to be used as eviden | tieu rly Hegeman’s, Riker’s, Ka Mt ready to fall backward fnio the cut below, where trains were parked. fon it, and just above, aticking down from the sagaing celling, was a twisted | “What can I doc” he Maine ty in, patrol wagons were used for the Saar lish’s, Kinsman's and Milhau's tn two The side toward the avemie was gone—not a bit of it loft. Where the front | chandelier to which still clung a scrap of tinsel, evidently @ bit of Christmas | Marshall wont Mil | te Ml | dead, who were laid in rows on the jsizes, at 50 cents and $2. SING Fat Co. 1125-1127 BROADWAY 25TH STREET | \ sag Bie Afty men upon hk wery Mung bodily over w ledge into the top toge| DAZED GROUP MILLED LIKE CATTLE. sery and Hospital, who came flying | into her brain, affects 3,500 motormen and cond No connection with any other mrigy. 0F the bower Rete cne OF She wapcere, of the Alsmetery M hout in tie midst of all the exeltement ike scared cattio were q| down the street us soon as they had| “With fireman Leahy 1 turned to do| The increase will amount to @bout $125,- concern in New York City H Down below, In the ranks of oars in the cut™, alonz the front and sides, over aaa caneeided Ttatlana under the flustered leadership of a priest in a fat | learned that thelr own charges were| what I could for those who were in-| 000 a year. ¥ | next the power house~in twenty places If one~email fires were raging, About it gud a long, dingy robe. Phe men of the party had bags on their |prectioally without injury. They had | jured. At present he wages scale < vas | each ‘Gf Bevo was a circle of firemen and taborers, tearing at tho. eplintered | navviors and the tage of the iininigration office on thelr coats, ‘They tad evi. |st Aret rushed to the spot of greatest RP ny a ccpegpen goaspeny for platform men ia "E Aebris veleh their hands, poking into the mass with tools and directing ete Madar eae rar a LPRIA @Amentter. iDBIAb Ane Ata A@h Bod (AFOGAN a miles | MMETTERE DINED WETS the wrecked to | DEBRIS FLUNG HIGH per ‘hour for first yeur men, MAGNIFICENT } of water down through cran to n the flames, Sent rics. celegee me % m ley car was being pu 0 pieces 50 for second year men, 23 cents 1) Along Fittioth street, probably two hundred | r# were pitching drbek ingg | Mahe NA hewn put ant bp the atte a 8 ve Beste Se hy A elloraang Bath thet he pausengera could be reached. | AS CATHEDRAL SPIRE, | yeor men to tenth y men Xmas Gifts 5 the street so fast that tie yetl Ad Ted cubes shot off the piles Uke gopeort | of rot seen took Geni au aw. ord’ haved then tetera dia Grand Cantal Many of the Nurses Hurt. MRS. SHRADY SAYS, | or \hany's Pe eg pts pli Aah ‘oming from a hopper. Som nese bricks were from the tumbled down and | Sealon ‘Mere they learned that there were Hach class will be increased ono cent BRADBU Y Wameribered masonry; but the bulk came from heaps of building material that)” opi cough the nolse of falling brick and hoarse commands and clanging beila| hurt men and women almost unat-| Dr, George F. Shrady Uves in a hig|an hour. ares eacked slong the sidewalka for s mo and the banghee-like bleating of the fire engines hundreds of wikt stories of | tended at the station, Many of these | house at the northeast corner of Fitty- | = Seren yeeros So8t, Share ust’ be. seve ere and 80 4 squad Of! Cocos and deaths were belng shouted, A policeman had had his eardrums blown | nurses had been cut and bruised tn | first street and Lexington avenue, Mrs. PIANO Aimbulance men were grouped just beyond where the showers of bricks fel | jut and was left stone deaf. A woman's head had been taken off by a bolt of | their brave fight to get to all of their |Ghrady to-day gave the following ac- fp; Salting for the firat With them were three priests, one with his biagk | th lt eg igh a window were she was sitting, All the ‘bubles in| bables and take them to safety, Not | count of the explosion: A leader amongst instruments EE Seri haus, Oy le Dak and 6 acrataeanzhis bere head the hospitals that abound {y the neighborhood had been blown out of |a few of them wore bandages wround| “I was in the breakfast room when | ‘Come and hear the : a", eee en aeeey meth Tat Rocted neat thevexlosion appeared wo have! ivoir ovina, Any sort of tale found credence and an active clreulating medium, | thelr heads. ‘Their work was so steady | suddenly there was a roar Ike the IB db ee ee torr coven ine cBF trecks And, without curniqg An acrid smell compounded of smoke-reek and the taint of fused metal and!and so gentle that not a few of the | clamor of a battle, The house seomed |Dradbdury Player j Your head to the righ lekhy Bee @ score of phenomena past human explanation, | vgn, or floating dust poisoned the’ air for blocks aroand. That smell helped to | surgeons and policemen dodging in and | to rixo from Sts foundations avd settie AND GEY A PREB MUSIC 300K, i Tyee chair wes sticking half way aut of u top top win an ApareneDe | vive a keynote to the Whale pletupesthet and the look of dazed intensity on the | out of the station hospital paused to | back with a jar, Every window in the | : é " 4 ue A man ry cepa eyes 28a Hoe t the woman lodger | facox in the wirosva of tone who bad survived the horror. Jpat them on the shoulder and say: | house was broken; some were blown in, | Bradbury Player Pianos upper room had told him that the cragh pi I " i Webster Player Pianos RF, SMITH, Mfr, 142 Fiith Avenue, NY. City, ‘ ¢ t that | Bay district in Congress, saw President} named again by President Taft. + At once the Archbishop telephoned G Open erery evening slit 0.80, es - t ° | tI ag TD aw