Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1900 — Page 3

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Indiana Dental College Department of Dentistry ' liilversity of Indianapolis. for all kinis of dental work. The fees ar to cover the costs only. Receives pat'ents from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. S. AV. tor. Delaware ami Ohio Streets. AMUSEMENTS. "Peaceful - Valley Presented by the (irnnd Stock Company. Teaceful Valley." the play made famous by Sol Smith Russell, was presented last night by the Grand Stock Company to a fair-sized audience. For the initial performance the work of the company last night was probably the best of the season and the performance was given with a commendable smoothness. "Peaceful Valley" is a play which should prove a great attraction for the Grand Stock Company, and the Impersonation of the various characters was exceptionally good. Last night was tho first appearance of Mr. John 13. Maher. of tho Tike Stock Company, of Cincinnati, before an Indianapolis audience, lie Impersonated the character of Ifoia Howe, and although he does not remind one of Sol Smith Kussel in 'Teaceful Valley," still his Impersonation of the character was very clever. The scene of the play is laid in New England, among th? mountains, and abounds in. simplicity p.nJ the dialogue In droll humor. Hosea Howe, the principal figure, ia working his way through college, by working as a waittr in a summer hotel above the Peaceful Valley. His life and struggles, his devotion to his mother, and wayward sister and his rinal success beyond expectations, touch the keynote of human sympathy. Frederick Wallace, as Jotham Ford, the hotel-keep r. looked the typical "down Ladurner" with his nasal accent and long linen duster. Mr. KIrkland, who impersonated Ward Andrews, acted the villlan In Lis usual clever manner, and Incurred the displeasure of the audience. Mr. Fisher, as Mr. Hand, acted the part of the mllI. or.uire. and Mr. Reynolds, as Charley Rand, was a typical society man. Ills entrance was always the occasion for apII. iu-f. Mr. Flood did his best work since his introduction to the Grand Stock Company, as Jack Farquhar, a young society p-:t. who. with the good influence of lU-sra. mended his ways. Miss Llnthicum lrnpeibonated Virgle Rand, a New York -ckty girl, who falls in love .with Hosea und whose influence has much to do with his fucctss. Niabe Farquhar, Jack's sister, was impersonated by Miss Fisher, who av.-ted the part exceedingly well. Agnes auynard was Fhylis Howe, Hosea' s mother, whoso simplicity of character and c-otlon to her son was inspiring. Miss Ilr--jtlia De Van, the new member of the c-mpany. made her Initial appearance as Martha Howe, who left her home in the I'e icolul Valley to go to New York with Ward Andrews and was not heard of for several years. Finally, through the influence of Virgie Rand and her longing to ste her mother and brother, she i3 prevailed upon to return. She does not make fc'jr appearance on the stage until the last act. but her impersonation of the heartbroken girl is very good. The final happy cr.vlir.g leaves the impression with the au Ueno that the evening is one well spent with pleasant surroundings. The stage setting, especially in the first act, where the scene is "The Ayrtop House." in the White mountains, Is very pretty. The vinecovered veranda and the mountains and valleys in the background form a very pretty picture. SIcGoTern In Melodrama. Terry McGovern, the bantamweight and featherweight champion pugilist of the world, the star of the melodrama, "The Powery After Dark." which is playing a three days engagement at the Park, was greeted yesterday with probably the larg t-st audiences that have attended the Park tfcla season. Every seat In the house was sold at both the matinee and evening performances The 'Terrible Terry" in the character of a Eowery boy wp.s given an ovation by hi admirers at almost every appearance. HU acting, while I did not approacn nis pugilistic standard of excellence, was very creditable. In fact Terry seems very much t home in the part and would pass muster If he had never been In the roped arena. The show itself is of the kind that .usually draws well at the Park, being a breezy melodrama enlivened with a number of specialties, met all of which are new and catchy. The chief interest in the show centers in th last act. in which Terry has three-round go with Jack Donahue, of

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Philadelphia, It ia. of course, quit evident that neither of them Is In earnest, but the audience doesn't seem to mind and appears to bo perfectly satisfied Just to see Terry in fighting costume.

The Droadrrar Dnrleiqnen. The usual large matinee audience greeted tho Broadway Burlesquers at the Empire Theater yesterday. The show opens with the usual burlesque, this one having been written by Loney Haskell who in one of the principal performers. There are some suggestive things about the" opening burlesque. The closing skit is called "A Whining Woman." It Is a satire on the great New York success, "Woman and Wine." There are a number of comely young women among the Broadway Burlesquers and they wore some very brilliant costumes. The olio Is good. Among the clever features Is the act of Harry Le Clair who has a number of character representations. Lilllal Le Roy has an act full of popular songs and she sings them well. Hanly and Jarvis are an entertaining pair of come dians and Carver and Pollard are too well known to Empire Theater patrons to need comment. They succeed in stirring up the usual merriment. The olio closes with the revolving ladder act of Ray and Benedetto. The company will be here the remainder of the week and will give daily matinees. Eire & Barton's, Extravaganza Company Is Looked for next week. Death of George Danlap. CHICAGO, Oct. 29. George Dunlap, who was at cne time one of the most prominent theatrical men in the United States, is dead at the Alexan Brothers' Hospital. Mr. Dunlap was the manager of the McCaull Opera Company when DeWolf Hopper. Digby Bell and Mme. Cottrelly were amonj its members. Before entering the theatrical business he had made a fortune as a druggist in New York. The remains will be tent to Danville. Ky., for burial. Note of the Stace. "War on Women," which will b the attraction at the Park the last half of the current week with Hope Booth as the star Is said to contain many sensational situations, while the production is artistic. xxx Two dromedaries have been added to the collection of animals at the Zoo. One came direct from the Orient and is probably the largest camel on this side of the waters. Key rings are being given away as souvenirs this week. The Zoo is open from 11 a. m. until 11 p. m. xxx Manager Bloom, of the Andrew Robson Company, which comes to English's next Monday and Tuesday night to present "The Royal Box," arrived in the city last night to make arrangements for receiving complete election returns at English's next Tuesday night. The returns will be read from the stage. Mr. Robson was seen in Indianapolis last season in "The Royal Box" and he has made a wonderful success in Charles Coghlan's play. xxx Joseph Jefferson, who has well been termed the dean of the stage, comes to English's to-night for one performance of "Rip Van Winkle." This play like but few others has stood before the public for many years and it is safe to say that in the audience at English's to-night will be many whose grand parents witnessed Mr. Jefferson in the same character years ago. But while he has grown old his acting Is said to be the more pleasing. The "standing room only" sign will be out early. General admission will be sold for $1. XXX Henry V. Esmond is a young Englishman who has achieved success by acting on the stage and by writing for it. His first great success as an author, however, came to him on the stage of the Knickerbocker Theater, New York, last season, when Mr. Nat C. Goodwin and Miss Matne Elliott produced what is now known a. his best comedy, "When We Were Twmty-one," the same play that these distinguished stars will present at English's Thursday night for but one performance. The sale of seats opened yesterday and the demand was very large. XXX Since the change from farcical to legitimate comedy Willie Collier has changed his name to William. Both changes have met with success. It Is said, for his work in "On the Quiet," his new play written by Augustus Thomas, i said to be very entertaining. There is plenty of humor in "On the Quiet," but the star does not have to resort to buffoonery to bring laughter from the audience. The production is declared to be complete throughout. Collier, will be at English's Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday matinee. The advance sale of seats will open this mcrning. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mrs. Jas R. Aver, of Boston, is visiting Mrs. J. Q. Van Winkle. Mrs. William Shaw, of Cincinnati, is visiting friends in the city for a few days. Mrs. John II. Talbott and children are visiting In Greencastle and Tcrre Haute. , Mrs. William Kenyon. who has been visiting relatives In Wabash, is home again. Miss Llllle Falls-Dunn, who has been visiting Mrs. N. A. Gladding, has returned homeMiss Freiberg, of Cincinnati, is visiting Mrs. Joseph Eckhouse, on North Meridian street. Mrs. Neuberg, of Chicago, will arrive scon to visit Mrs. Herman Pink, at the Denlson Hotel. Mrs. Benjamin D. Walcott will entertain at luncheon Thursday, in honor of Mrs. Charles II. Pelrce, of Lafayette. Miss Josephine Jackson has issued invitations for a masquerade Wednesday evening at her home, 118 East North street. Mrs. Frederick Van Dören Chislett has returned from a two weeks' visit in Crawfcrdsville, to her home at the Hotel English. Miss Kate Barrett, of New York, who is visiting Mrs. S. G. Stanton, 675 River avenue, will go in a few days to visit friends at Bellevlew, O. Mrs. James E. Ingraham and Miss Julia Spades will leave the latter part of the week for St. Augustine, Fla., where' Miss Spades will spend the winter. The Indiana Chapter of the Wesleyan College alumnae will meet at 10 o'clock this morning in the Meridian-street Church to take action on the death of Mrs. Mary N. Carey. Dr. and Mrs. Ewlng entertained the Up-to-date Cinch Club last night at their home on North New Jersey street. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kinaly. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bauer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schüler, Mr. and Mrs. Self, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Goldsberry and Mr. and Mrs. Isaac King. Ths marriage of Miss Edith Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Thomas and Mr. Lloyd S. Linkenhelt, of Salt Lake City, occurred In Salt Lake City last Wednesday. The wedding was to have occurred at-the bride's home on North Meridian street, last night. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ogle, of South Bend, accompanied Miss Thomas to Salt Lake City. The Amerlcus Club gave Its opening ball of the season last night at the clubhouse on North Alabama street. The parlors and dance hall, were adorned with palms and llowers and an orchestra played during the evening. The grand march was led by th president of the club. Mr. Samuel E. Rauh and Mrs. Rauh, followed by the officers. Mi. G. A. Efroymson, Mr. Joseph Wineman, Mr. E. I. Fisher, Mr. Lee It. Kahn, Mr. Ralph Bamberger and their escorts. Mrs. Henry Judah Brandon gave an Informal tea yesterday afternoon from 5 to 7 o'clock In honor of her sister, Mrs. Garritt M. Ryan and Miss Sallle Peckham, of Chicago. Tho reception rooms on the second floor were used and were adorned with palms and pink chrysanthemums. Mrs. Biandon was assisted during the receiving hours by Mrs. Henry Wallace. Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, Mrs. Frederick A. Joss, Mrs. J. Alfred Barnard. Mis Kate Wallick. Miss Louise Fletcher. Mrs. Henry P. Cobum, Miss Agnes Duncan and Mrs. Armstrong. The invitations Included both voung men and women and a large number of visitors called during the reception Hours. Among the guests from out-of-town were Miss Test, of Council Bluffs. Ia.; Miss Gardner, of New London. Conn.; Miss Mlchener. of Washington. D. C, and Miss Wood, of Pittsburg. Tho members of the Junior Auxiliary of SL Paul's Church were hostesses last night f)r a Urge reception at the Parish House in honor of Bishop Partridge, of Japan. The receiving hours were from 8 to 10 o'clock and a large number of visitors called durins the evening. The reception was held in ths Jones room, which wa3 leauttfully adorned with white and lavender paper Corcrs era foliage plants. The

pillars were covered with the flowers and the flowers outlined the platform, which was converted Into a Japanese tea room. The young ladles, who poured tea sat on cushions, Japanese fashion, and .wore Japanese costumes. The officers of the auxiliary, including Mrs. George E. Hume, directress, and Miss Alice Vail, Miss Lento Fulwell, Miss Katharine Vail, Miss Lucy Palmer received the guests with Bishop Partridge, and they were assisted by Bishon and Mrs. Francis. Mrs. Knlcker-

l backer. Mrs. Hendricks. Rev. Lewis Brown. Mr Hrnivn Xfr-e Sfvrinn anil AT r anil Mrs. Aquilla Jones. Tho favors for the evening were miniature Japanese lanterns and fans. A musical programme was rendered during the evening by Mr. Conduit, Mr. Ralph Abbett and Mrs. Philips. MAUZY-FOHL. A pretty home wedding occurred last night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Fohl, when their daughter. Miss Edna Fohl and Mr. Leonidas R. Mauzy. were married. The ceremony was pronounced by the Rev. Carlos C. Rowllnson, pastor of the Third Christian Church, before about 150 guests. The bride's attendant was Miss Ida May Foudray and Dr. Roscoe Akers acted as best man. Little Edith Miller was the flower girl. She wore a dainty dress of white swlss, trimmed with pink ribbons and carried a basket of rose petals, which she strewed before the bride. There were two ribbon bearers, Lydia Mauzy, of Rushvllle, and Grace Caldwell, both dressed in white, who formed an aisle with pink and white satin ribbons from the stairway to the second parlor, where the ceremony was performed. The bridal party stood beneath a canopy of green, from the center of which was suspended a wedding bell, the dapper of which was a blossom of a night blooming cereus. The bride wore a pretty gown of white organdie. The skirt had a deep tucked flounce around the bottom with laco ruchlng. The corsage was fashioned ot lace insertion and tucks over which was worn a renaissance lace Jacket. She carried an arm bouquet of white chrysanthemums, tied with satin ribbon, draped here and there with asparagus. Miss Foudray wore white swlss with pink trimming and carried an arm bouquet of pink chrysanthemums, tied with pink satin ribbon. For the entrance of the bridal party an orchestra played the "Bridal Chorus" from "Ldhengrin," and during the ceremony "O Promise Me" was softly rendered. During the congratulations Mendelsshon's wedding march was played. During the evening Mrs. Fohl was assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Z. E. Mauzy, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Kennedy, of Shelbyvllle, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Loebe, of Nashville, Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Shearman. The different rooms were adorned with chrysanthemums. In the dining room, which was In pink and white, ribbons were festooned from the chandeliers to the four corners of the table and in the center of the table was a basket of white and pink chrysanthemums. The mantels were banked with ferns and plants and outlining the doorways and stairway, was Southern smilax and ground pine. Punch was served during the evening by Miss Louise Mauzy, of Rushvllle. Among the guests from out of town were the Misses Mauzy, Captain and Mrs. J. IL Mauzy, Mrs. Anna Sexton, Mr. and Mrs. Gates Sexton, of Rushvllle; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Kennedy, of Shelbyvllle; Mr. and Mrs. Abe Loebe, of Nashville, Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs. David Wilson, of Shelbyvllle. Mr. and Mrs. Mauzy will reside temporarily with Mr. and Mrs. Fohl, on North New Jersey street. CITY NEWS NOTES. A. T. Mosley, of 533 Holley avenue, is painting his feed store red in advance of the election. Dr. J. J. Garver, who has been seriously 111 for six or seven weeks at his residence on North Pennsylvania street, is slightly improved. ' Charles Perry, the thirteen-year-old son of Clark Perry, living at 1938 Cornell avenue, Is 111 with smallpox. The house has been quarantined. Mrs. Anna Knowles, widow of Henry Knowles, will be burled from the Fletcherplace M. E. Church to-day at 2 p. m. All friends are invited to attend. The Yokefellows of the First Baptist Church will listen to an address by Dr. J. D. George this evening In the lecture room of the church. All young men are Invited. The Retail Grocers' Association will hold a special meeting to-night for the purpose of entertaining grocers who are not members. There will bo several speeches and lunch. II. A. Shepard has arrived from Chicago to take the position of room clerk at the Denlson Hotel. Mr. Shepard has served In the same capacity at the Chicago Beach Hotel and at the Palmer House. William Hammons, colored, who was serving a sentence at the workhouse for petit larceny, escaped yesterday by climbing over the fence while he was in the yard hanging out a clothes line. Dr. R. N. Todd, who was with the City Dispensary for a year past, and who had settled in Rockdale, has returned to the city, having been appointed to a place as physician, in the Insane Hospital. Charles II. Pierce, a traveling salesman, of St. Louis, arrived at the Grand Hotel, last night, suffering from painful Injuries received by being thrown from the train at East St. Louis while en route to this city. His condition is not serious. John Shepard, of St. Paul, who was arrested a few days ago on the charge of sending threatening letters through the malls was given a hearing yesterday before Commissioner Moores. He waived examination and was bound over to the grand Jury. A. A. Barnes, proprietor of the "Udell woodenware works, states that in the years he has hpen in business he has not been so pressed with orders, having to decline the filling of several large orders, of late. His force Is the largest in the history of the works. The season nearlng its close has been one of the most prosperous In, some years with canning establishments. With each year there has been a remarkable growth in the canning of fruits and vegetables, manufacture of catsups and llko goods. The Vancamp Packing Company has prepared plans for considerably enlarging Its plant, now much the largest in the State. Judging from the programme that was arranged for tho entertainment- of the merry-makers at the "beer-bake and steak-brew," held at the Indianapolis Brewing Company's plant Saturday night, those who were lucky enough to receive invitations missed a great treat if they failed to attend. The invitation concludes with the slgnlficent note: "Those desiring to attend the regular morning services on the following Sabbath will be released In time for such services, providing notice and a forfeit are posted with the secretary. Do not eat or drink for ten hours preceding." The festivities began at 10 o'clock Saturday night. Atfoncillo and Robledo. Hartford Courant. Agoncillo is only less dear to the Boston Tagalogians than Aguinaldo himself. Romero Robledo Is a Spaniard, ex-minister of justice, a pal of Azcarraga, the new premier, and of Weyler, the new captain general of Madrid. Last week there was a big Filipino dinner in Paris. Agoncillo was there, of course; so also was Robledo, and he made a speech. He described us as "a robber nation." He wished Aguinaldo and his guerrillas good luck. "The Yankees," he said, "are the instrument of Providence for a "reunion of the Philippines and Spain in an eternal embrace with indestructible ties of heart." Then Agoncillo made a speech. He assured Robledo that his country the Philippines "wishes to be the daughter of Spain or of none." Locatlnc Cleveland's Cabinet. Boston Journal. Of ex-President Cleveland's Cabinet ministers, only three, and two of these Southern men. are supporting Mr. Bryan. They are Richard Olney. Hilary A. Herbert and Hoke Smith. On the other hand, six of Mr. Cleveland s former colleagues favor President McKinley. They are John O. Carlisle, William C. Whitney. Charles s. Fairchild. Daniel S. Lamont. Don M. Dickinson and J. Sterling Morton. In spite of Mr. Olney, the balance .here, in character and ability as well as In numbers, leans strongly to the Republican side. The Journal's Redaction la Prlee. A wrong impression seems to prevail among certain of the subscribers to The Journal, namely, that the recent reduction in the subscription price of the paper was only temporary, and that a return to former rates would take effect when the campaign closes. This 13 an error. The present published price of the paper will b permanently maintained and its hish standard will in no way be impaired. Bend in your nut-criptions to us at the published rates or have the paper delivered to you by cur ctnt tn your locality.

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HNOTH, HENRY, Jersey City; cut about head and body. HULL, WOODRUFF F., New London. Conn.; scalp wound and fcack hurt. JONES, MORTIMER, New York; burned about head and face. KEEVER, MADELINE, Brooklyn. KELLY,' M. P.. New York; burns about face and head; right leg Injured. KELLY. M. R., New York; burned about hands, feet and legs while attempting to savo lives. KINDLER, OTTO, New York; chin and neck cut by flying glass. KREVIN, CATHERINE, Brooklyn; hysteria. LANG, FRANK. Jersey City; burned about arms and body. LIDELL, JESSE, New York; sprained wrist, contusion of head. LIMMERS, PAUL, Brooklyn; lacerated wound of thigh. LODER. FRED W.. Whltestone, L. I., lacerated thumb. LOPEZ, . New York; overcome by heat and smoke. MARON, , New York; cut about face and arms. MASON. TONY, Jersey City; legs sprained. MECKLIN, H. C, East Orange, N. J.; lacerated forehead. ME RNA, WILLIAM. New York. MYERS, JOHN, New York; both legs broken. MILLER, JOSEPH, Jersey City; cut about head. MULHEARN. JAMES, New York; head cut. MULKERN, JOSEPH. New York; cut about arms. MURRAY, THOMAS, New York; overcome by smoke. MURPHY, . New York; lacerated wound of hand. O'DELL, JESSE. Brooklyn. PARKER. HENRY, New York; cut about head, face and body. PERIA, JOSEPH. Brooklyn; cut about face and hands. PETERSON, PORTER, Brooklyn; right leg broken. PETTY, S. A., 'Elizabeth. N. J.; lacerated wound of scalp. PIHLMAR, GUSTAV, Jersey City; thumb torn off right hand. PIROVANO. EDWARD. Woodbridge, N. J.; cut about head. PLUMPTON, IL, Brooklyn; lacerated scalp wound. QUIRK, E. J., dislocation of shoulder and lacerated wound of finger. ROSS, WILLIAM, New York; right arm broken. SCIIAEFER, CHARLES, New York. SCANNELL, CLARENCE, New York; scalp wound. SCHNEIDER, MICHAEL, New York; cut about face and hands. SCHUMAN, FRANK, Brooklyn; cut about head. SHELLAND, II. II., Brooklyn; lacerated le5". SHINE. JULIUS, Brooklyn; contusion of hand. STACKLEBERG, AUSTIN, Brooklyn; internal injuries. SICO, ANDREW, New York; burned about arms and body. TEMPLE, WILLIAM S., New York; leg broken. TENNISON, W. T., Brooklyn; cut by fallUNDERWOOD, JOSEPH, New York; face cut. VAN ZANDT, E., New York; insurance adjuster. VRICKE, H. C, Jersey City Heights; cut on hands and arms. WOLFE, W. F., New York; burned about eyes, head and arms. WLSON, PETER, Brooklyn; cut about head and face. WALLING. BENJAMIN, New York; left arm broken. WELLINGSTEIN, JOHN, New York; head cut. W1NDERTBOTTOM. SAMUEL, Brooklyn; lacerated wound of face. STORY OF THE DISASTER. Lower End of Manhattan Stricken aa If by an Earthquake. NEW . YORK, Oct. 29.-The long list of fire horrors that have occurred in and around the city of New York, a district that includes tho Royal Hotel fire, the Park-place disaster and the Windsor and Hoboken fires, was added to to-day by a fire and explosion that shook the lower end of Manhattan like an earthquake, hurled a seven-story building into the air and set fire to two blocks of buildings, with a loss of life that only the efforts of hundreds of men, who were rushed to the work of digging away the ruins as soon as the fire was extinguished, will reveal. The big building of Tarrant & Co., makers, of medicinal specialties, standing at the northwest corner of Greenwich and Warren streets and filled with chemicals, took fire in some way that may never be known at about 12:15 o'clock this afternoon. It was sixteen minutes after noon that a citizen rushed into the house of Fire Engine 29, on Chambers street, near Greenwich, and shouted that Tarrant's drug store was on firfc. He had seen a volume of black smoke coming from the thirdstory window. An alarm was turned in. Soon afterward second and third alarms were turned in. One fire company had just arrived when a terrific explosion occurred and threw the entire engine's crew down the stairway. The; firemen, realizing the danger of their position, rushed out of the building to the street. The explosion had filled the street in front with a shower of falling glass and small debris, which sent the crowd, which was already gathered on the opposite side of 'the walk, fleeing for safety, and caused the horses hitched to the engines to rear and try to get away. Engineer Rocksberry was unfastening the horses, and Fireman Brown, of the company, was turning the safety valve of the engine when the explosion occurred and covered them with a shower of glass. Both were Injured, as was another fireman belonging to the company. HURLED ACROSS THE STREET. Captain Devanney ordered his crew back into the building again. They were dragging the line to the doorway for the second time when . another explosion, more terrific than the first, came and the whole crew was hurled across Greenwich street, Dovänney being so badly injured that he was sent to a hospital. In the meantime the other engines" that had responded to the alarm had collected and the firemen were busy rescuing people from surrounding buildings. Firemen had already taken many girls down the only . fire escape upon the building, and more persons had been carried down the escapes or the "Home-made" Restaurant next door, and tho buildings adjoining upon Warren street. The second explosion occurred about, five minutes after the first. From the accounts of witnesses, the building seemed to leap into tho air, and in a moment masses of brick wall, timbers and stone wire falling into the street. The force of the explosion tore away the walls of the big commission storehouse fionting on Washington street, and caused them to collapse, falling all at once in a mass of timbers, boxes and barrels, from which flames which burst out from tha Tarrant building like the belching of a cannon, at once broke forth. Across Warren street to the opposite buildings the flames leaped, setting them all afire at once, the force of the explosion demolishing windows and all wooden structures about the place. In a moment Warren street was choked up with a mass of debris and the whole place was aflame. The great explosion was followed by half a dozen more scarcely less intense, and by a countless number of smaller ones. . By this time the Are apparatus was arriving from every direction. Deputy Chief Ahearn came about two minutes after the second series of explosions and he at once ordered a fifth alarm sent out, followed by a general call for ambulances. The explosion and fire together had now assumed the proportions of a catastrophe and it was thought that hundreds of lives had been lost. Throngs of people were rushing about In the near-by streets, many of them panic stricken, fleeing from the fire. These mingled in the crowd that was rushing down from Broadway to see what had happened. The heads or city departments concerned In the many-sided disaster hurried to the scene of the fire. Chief Devery, of the police department, with Deputy Chlsf Mc-Ku-hlln and Inspector Brooks ana Captain LlcCluskey of ' the detective bureau, were

on hand but a few minutes after Fire Chief Croker. Commissioner Scannel, of the fire department. Deputy Commissioner Brennan. of the charities department. In which the city's hospitals are included, and Superintendent Dooner, of the buildings department, were soon on the scene. PRIESTS ON THE SCENE. Half an hour after the explosion the streets for blocks around the Are was crowded with fire apparatus, with scores of ambulances, while hundreds of police were being rushed from all 'the lower precincts of the city to form lines, and many priests from nearby parishes were going here and there In the smoke-obscured thoroughfares, seeking for Injured, whs might need their aid. From the burning districts a column of smoke was rising high in the air, mingled with flames that could not be controlled by hundreds of streams thrown upon them. The second explosion carried destruction in every direction. That it did not cause a wholesale loss of life was due to the fact that almost ten minutes warning came after the first cry of fire, a cry that was real warning to people who knew the character of the chemicals in the burning building, and fully five minutes elapsed between the first and minor explosion, which warned every one within hearing, and the

dccuuu one. Just after the outbreak of fire from the windows of the building a downtownbound train stopped at Warren-street station of the Ninth-avenue elevated road. It passed on in time to escape the explosion, and the few people who were left on the platform of the station are thought to have all escaped before the great explosion came. The Stationmaster fiel across the structure carrying with him the receipts of the day and his unused tickets, while two women, who had stopped on the platform to watch the fire, frightened by the first explosion, fled down the tracks, assisted by the station porter, who took them to the Barclay-street station In safety. The big explosion completely carried away the station, and the mass of masonry that fell with it broke through the flooring and almost demolished the structure just below the building. Immense masses or masonry, pieces of cornice, great beams, window casings, and an indescribable mass of wreckage of every description tumbled suddenly into the street in front of the building all at once. The force of the explosion below had thrown the firemen back across the street, so that they were not caught, but their escape from the rain of debris across the street was marvelous. CONFUSION IN A BANK. The wreckage was thrown across through the windows of the building in which the Irving National Bank is, on the Northeast corner of the street. The offices of the Irving National Bank and the Mecklem Bros., bankers and brokers, were nearly wrecked. President Fancher, of the Irving National Bank, was away on business and John W. Castree, cashier, James A. Dennlson. and Assistant Cashier Benjamin F. Werner, Paying Teller William Dunlay and Adjuster Van Zeidt, were present. At the first explosion an attempt was made to gather all the money and paper that yas lying on the counters together and to throw them into the safes, and it was supposed that this had been done when the second explosion brought broken glass and plastering from the skylight ceilings down about the heads of everybody and caused them to escape in a hurry. Captain McCluskey of the detective bureau, who hurried every available man of his staff to the fire, was appealed to protect the funds of the bank, he being told that they were in the vault, the door of which was supposed to be unlocked. When the captain and his men went in, however, they found about $10,000 scattered In confusion over counters and floors. This was hastily thrown Into the vault and the door locked President Fancher, of th bank, arrived within a few minutes of the start of the fire and was nearly hysterical when he found what had happened. By half past 2. however, the directors of the bank had met and posted a sign in the window stating that the bank would do business to-morrow. Down in Mecklem Bros. offices in the basement there were H. II. Mecklem, and his brother William, with Frank Beckenberry, a boy, Thomas Hackett, a clerk, another man named Bruce and some girls, among them Ellen Vandeen and May Dunkleraann. When the fire broke out $90.000 in money lay upon the counter. Heckenberry was stationed at the door while this was gathered together for putting In the vault. The first explosion filled the place with sulphurous smoke, that nearly. asphyxiated everybody. The second explosion blew in thewlndows and cut the two Mecklems seriously. The boy, Heckenberry. found the two girls lying in a heap, fainted away. He carried them out to a place of safety. The others, when they came to their senses, gathered the money from the floors, put It In cigar boxes and carried it to Waddell & Co.'s. A barber shop in the same building was demolished the barbers and two customers that were being shaven being driven to the street. The other tenants of the building, a number of lawyers and brokers, all escaped injury, as did the janitor, James Rubini, who lived on the top floor with his wife and two children. STREETS COVERED WITH GLASS. The explosion completely demolished windows along Greenwich street, on both sides for three blocks in both directions. The streets were covered with fine bits of glass. The force of the explosion was exerted horizontally across the street, skylights being carried away as if by a storm, and the casing3 of doors broken away with the glass. The explosion did not spare the Interiors of stores, everything being heaped up in confusion. The explosion tore down the buildings to the west, the walls of those on the Washington-street side being hurled outward to the streets as If an explosion had taken place locally Instead of away at the Greenwich-street end of the block. It was thought, indeed, that explosions had followed in these buildings, but no cause for them could be found. The Immense buildings of J. H. Mohlmann & Co., fronting on Washington street, simply collapsed, a deluge of barrels and boxes, filled with fruit, rolling out, and forming a pile that stretched half way across the street. At the time of the explosion blazing barrels were hurled clear across Washington street and set fire to the buildings to the west, threatening an extensive fire in that direction, but the firemen deluged these buildings and saved them. The first reports of the fire that went out were that the Tarrant building, in its fall, baa crashed down upon two crowded restaurants and buried a hundred or moro in each. Subsequent examination showed that if any persons were caught in these places it was the kitchen help and very few outsiders, if anybody. The patrons of the "Home-made" restaurant, kept by a man named Buckley, were In most danger, but witnesses say all escaped, and after th3 flames subsided a clear view could be had into the dining room and no bodies conld be seen, the place being untouched by Are, though much damaged by the collapue of the restaurant building. A man who watched the Are from across the street said that the crowd In the restaurant was evidently warned, and swarmed out after the first explosion, everybody being out when the second explosion came. A restaurant on the south side of Warren street was in as much danger, nearly, and the building was destroyed by fire, but it was said that the crowd got out of this also. It was thought that the cooks In the Buckley restaurant and some of the guests who tried to escape by a rear alley might have been caught. THE TARRANT BUILDING. Outside of a few who were injured in the streets, the loss of life by the fire and explosion must have occurred In the Tarrant building, mainly, and possibly in the other buildings destroyed by the fire. The number of persons in the Tarrant building was estimated to be in the neighborhood of fifty. Secretary Allen, of the company, said there were forty-fire employes, and he thought all got out with the exception of on3. People who saw the fire declared, however, that more must have been lost. Engineer Alexander Phillips, who live in Hoboken, was seen after the first explosion, and told how he tried to make hi way un into the burning building. He said that the people , in the building were as follows: In the basement were the engineer's department and the shipping room, where five men were employed. Ail these he thought escaped, as he himself warned them in plenty of time. On tho first floor were the offices of the company and the retail dispensing department. There were about half a dozen persons on this floor at the time of the fire. On the second floor was Breitenbach's pepsin chewing gum factory, where ten girls and six boys were employed. The third and fourth floors were storage floors for tho Tarrant Company. There were several porters on the two floors. The fifth floor v.'as urcd as a tottllnj deartrntnt fcr one of the firm's tp?clolti3. riz clrljj were employed hzro. The cix& i:cr v'-ia

the place of manufacture of one of the specialties, where three men were usually employed. One of these, a porter named John P. Phillips, is known to have escaped. Another, an old man eighty years of age. named Callahan, Phillips thought, murt have lost his life, being unable to get out. The top floor was a chemical laboratory, used by Louis Patterson, the chemist of the concern, and two men and two glrU T.elped him there. Phillips was Inclined t think that most of these escaped, although at a late hour Patterson himself had not been heard from. Phllllp3 said that, he saw the fire while out at lunch, and rushed Into the building to try to warn the people inside. He went to his own department and yelled fire, then hfe made his way up to the fifth floor, he says. He could not see Into the Breitenbach premises, which are separated from the Tarrant rooms, but he got up to the fifth floor and then found that the way was cut off by flames. Seeing there was so much fire he hurried out, having been warned that there were explosives in the place. He yelled to the firemen as he came down to get out for their lives, as there would be an explosion. How many of the grls and other employes escaped couiJ not b guessed even to-night, although a large number of missing persons Indicated that there were some. It was said that half of the employes were out getting lunch. UNCONFIRMED RUMORS. A rumor went around that a boy had been seen at one of the near-by restaurants getting lunches for fifteen girls who were waiting in the building. A man named Sexton is said to have seen two men and a woman at one of the top floor windows. Just before the building collapsed. Another witness said he saw four girls being carried down the rear fire escapes by men of Truck 10. As no firemen have been supposed to have been lost these girls probably were saved. Another witness said that he saw a large number of girls on a fire escape just before the explosion and that none could have escaped. Other witnesses saw a crowd of about twenty girls come out of the Tarrant building and run away, one girl, Lena Sprltt. of Eat. Fifth street, being reported killed by flying debris, when she turned to go back for something. One young woman named Pelton, employed at Breltenbach's, is said to have Jumped out of a window and been taken to a hospital with both legs broken.. The only person known to have been killed up to 8 o'clock to-night was a man Who died in one of the hospitals from the result of ah injury received in the street. Chief Croker at an early hour said there were no firemen missing, although It had been reported that an entire company could not be found, and it was supposed they had been lost under the ruins of the collapsed commission house on Washington street. A number of firemen were Injured In various ways, however, and scores of persons received injuries of every degree from falling debris in the streets. Firemen and policemen covered with blood were common eights at the beginning of the fire, and one of the latter, Galvin, of the Church-street station, who was badly cut up while assisting a fireman out of the wreck on Washington street, was certain that firemen had been burled under the cave-In of the building. Policeman Kally. of the steamboat squad, was reported killed, but later turned up at a hospital with his face badly hurt. He had been on Warren street assisting people to escape when the explosion occurred and he was caught under a shower of falling things. Policemen Quirk and Cohen were carrying a wounded fireman away from the building after the first explosion across Greenwich street. The second explosion came and threw the three down a cellar entrance across the street, where they were picked up. A number of firemen were on a ladder placed against the building from the elevated structure when the second explosion came. They managed to escape. BUSINESS MEN INDIGNANT. There was great indignation among the

business men of the vicinity when they learned the part that the explosion had played in the general catastrophe. An explosion from this drughouse had not been unexpected, as It was generally believed In the neighborhood that there were explosive chemicals in the place. J. S. Coward, a shoe manufacturer, of 268 Greenwich street, whose place was wrecked by the explosion, said that it was the general talk in the neighborhood about the chemicals in the Tarrant building. M. Dickson, member of the firm of R. W. Dickson & Son. of Washington street, declared to-night that for several weeks neighbors had no ticed barrels and carboys going Into the building. Everybody was arprchenslve of fire In that particular place. Philips, the engineer at Tarrant's, said, when he described his own hurried exit from the burning building, that Patterson, the chemist, had told him some time ago that there were dangerous chemicals m the place, and that, If it ever caught fire the best thing the people employed there could do would be to get as far away as quickly as they could. George Murray, Inspector of combustibles of the fire department, said after the fire that Tarrants had a permit for the storing of one barrel of turpentine, one barrel of benzine and one hundred pounds of collodlüm, with alcohol. He could not say that this amount had been exceeded. Fire Commissioner Scannell. however, was not backward about denouncing the firm for carrying more explosives than It had a right to. , The fire boats were called to the fire early, and thousands of feet of hose were stretched from the river front to the burning buildings. At 3 o'clock the fire was completely under control of the firemen, the flames tili burning fiercely in. the Interior of the burned area, but danger of spreading being over. At 4 p. m. the flames had been extinguished in the buildings outh of Warren street, and crowds of men from the building department were put to work tearing down high walls. At the same time workmen were hurried by the Elevated Railroad Company to repair the down-town track. The force of the explosion was distinctly felt in Wall street, where the accompanying noises made people think that an earthquake had happened on the lower East Side. In the vicinity of Trinity Church there was much alarm, and it was feared that the lofty spire of the old edifice was about to topple over. The air was full of scraps of paper and charred wood, and a postal card, badly scorched and addressed to Tarrant & Co., fell In the road way. In front of the Broad-street entrance of the Mills building. The atmosphere throughout the downtown district was surcharged with a strong odor, as if of acids. The roofs of the tall buildings were soon crowded with spectators, and considerable anxiety was manifested. RUMORS WERE CURRENT. Rumors of great loss of life ran through the crowds that surrounded the fire area all afternoon and kept the police of the whole island busy controlling it. The arrival of apparatus was greatly hindered by throngs in the streets. An ambulance from one of the hospitals ran over a man on Chambers street on its way to the fire. A number of accident cases were added to the long list of small injuries in this way. In addition to the great number of injured, who were taken from the ruins at tho scene of the disaster or from the Immediate vicinity and carried in ambulances to the various hospitals, a great number of cases, some of them said to be more than trifling, were attended to In the downtown district. A canvass of the drug stores on lcwer Broadway, developed the fact that persons who at the time of the explosion were blocks away from the scene of the catastrophe, had staggered In in a half dazed condition to have Injuries from flying glass or filling debris attended to. At least cne case of a miraculous escape was discovered in the course of investigation. This was at Wilson's pharmacy. According to the story of the manager of the drug store, a young gtrU her face blanched anl her condition one of utmost excitement, had dragged herself up to the soda counter and ordered a glass of soda water. , This was shortly after the explosion, and upon being asked whether she was Injured and required attendance the girl answered that she had been in the building that collapsed at the time the fire started, and had escaped uninjured. The people at the drug store had not asked her name, nor was there anything to verify her story, but the fact that a number of young girls were employed In the building gives a color of truth to the storyAt the drug store of Milhaus & Son one ease had been attended to. Shortly after : the explosion a young man bad come into the store wltn tnree cuts in nis lert hand frcm flying glass. He could not say how cr T7re hs hid received his injuries. At Il2rtan's druT store a man had L::a attcnrd ttLo tad received a very

severe wound In M scalp. He. had bren three blocks away, from the place where the explosion occurred when a heavy piece of debris landed on his head. A man staegered Into Hudnuts pharmacy with his hat demolished and his head cut open by a piece of flying plate glass. A man was attended at the Ator IIou drug store who had received painful but not serious cuts on one of his hancis an l on one foot. The man. accoMIn to th story told in the pharmacy, got off an "L" train at the Chambers-street station and was running to tee the Are. While he was en route the explosion occurred and from the impact the man was thrown tothe pavement and rolled Into the sub-area of a building. He was half a block away from the fire at the time. At the City Hall Pharmacy a number of injured were attended. The proprietor had attended as many as twenty or twentyfive. Some of the Injured people Cfme in unattended; others were brought in by one or two people who had picked them up. By 7 o'clock to-night there were gangs of men from the building department at work in various departments of the ruins. They began at the northwest corner of Greenwich and Warren streets and at the northeast corner of Warren and Washington streets. Ropes were thrown around peaks of walls and a dozen or a score of men would then pull down a big piece of wall, which would fall with a crash on a heap of the Immense ruin. Then more men would spring in with shovels and picks and start to get the refuse made by the falling walls out to the piles rising higher all the time. WRECKED BUILDINGS.

A Doifn Structures Destroyed and Others Badly Damaged. NEW YORK, Oct. Neither the officials of the police department nor of the building department were willing to give any estimates of the loss caused by the fire and explosion. That It will amount to over a million was not denied by any body. The buildings which were destroyed or wrecked were: A seven-story brick and stone structure the basement and first story, part of third and fourth to the seventh story, occupied by Tarrant & Co.. wholesale druggists; the sixth story partly by the F. T. White Hardware Company, and the second and part of the third by Breitenbach & Co., manufacturers of patent medicines. A seven-story brick building occupied by Eppcns, Smith & Weinman Co., coffee roasting house. A five-story brick building occupied by Locke & Conklln, produce dealers; Douglass & Co., cheese; Kahn, bakers' suppiles, and Hopping & Campflcld, broom sticks and broom straw. A six-story brick occupied by Aller, dried fruits; fifth flour, Havons Drug and Spie Company; fourth floor, vacant, and second. lake & Co., lemons and oranges; first and part of sixth, fruit dealers; first, Pedor & Xonells. lemons and oranges; basement, Cuneo,- fruit dealers. Five-story brick, used as a hotel. Five-story brick, occupied, second to fifth floor by the Morris Jackson Flag Company; basement by Hart & Co., butter and cheese. Five-story brick, occupied by Shlegley, second-hand printers' materials; fourth floor occupied by O'Keefe Shiegley, printers; third floor by Morris Jackson Flag Company; basement and first floor by Boerne, butter and eggs. Four-story brick, unoccupied. Four-story brick, occupied from basement to the fourth floor by Behrnan, produce merchant, and part of the second and third by Kornaherens, storage and screens. A four-story brick, occupied by Erns, saloon; Hess & Ohls, apples; Granalto, bananas. A seven-story building, occupied by Eppens. Smith & Co., teas and coffees. A five-story brick was occupied by Hartnan, embossing and stamping cardboard factory, third, fourth and fifth floors; sec- ' ond, Koerber Nutt Bread Company; first, Llfschltz; cigars; Italian barber; Rosenberg, saloon, basement, and first floor and also in the basement a carpenter shop and a Chinese laundry. The work of the firemen saved the buildings fronting on Chambers street from total destruction, and the fire was halted after it had eaten about a hundred feet southward into the block below Warren. m TOLD BY A PREACHER. Rer. Martin Luther' Account of the Explosion and Stampede. NEW YORK, Oct. 20. The Rev. Martin Luther, of the Wilson Memorial Chapel, who was within a block of the cene of the accident when the explosion occurred, had a remarkable escape. He was on his way from 'the" Franklin-street ferry to attend the noon meeting at the John-street Methodist Church. He was suiTcrlng from a wound in the head as a result of trying to hold a horse which had been knocked down by a truck. He was kicked in the head. "My experience," he said, "was one which I will never forget. I came up Franklin street from the ferry and turned down Washington street to Warren. I had Just turned the corner Into Warren street when the first explosion occurred. When the second, and terrific crah came, I was In the middle of the block between Greenwich and Washington streets. I was on the south side of the street looking at the building. Just before the great explosion I had been dlrettly opposite the burning building looking at the fit a and the people escaping down the fire ladders. Had I remained in that position j. few moments longer I would have been killed. I consider my escape an act of Providence. "When I first arrived on the scene there was a dense black smoke pouring out of the windows of the burning buliding. 'As I looked men and women were being assisted out by the firemen and were coming down the ladders. Then there was a noi.s from the interior of the structure and a white smoke began to pour out. Ju.t before that I left the front of the building and went down the block. Everyone' on the escape seemed to have been rescued, and so far as I could see there was no one on the escape when the explosion oucurrd. "As I looked one man appeared at one of the uppT windows. His fare exprepsod great agony and fear. The smoke aImoct shut him out from the view of those m the street. 'Go up tc the roof. For God' sake go up!' the crowd shouted. The man left the window. I don't believe he ever left the room where he was. for it was but a few moments later that the big explosion took place. It seemed to me that the whole buildin was carrici up into the air only to break tnto a thousand pieces and come down on the poplo and houses, bringing death and destruction. There vas a slight sound before the explosion, and then with a flash and nois that shook the ground the building went up. "I was standing near a building. Thtre was a break in the crowd, and I dathed through and got just under the shelter of the doors when the glass of the building crashed in and glass fell all about me. The crowd stampeded down the strvef. Men and women fell over each other ard to add to the excitement of the scene th truck horses stampeded. There were a great number of trucks in the vicinity, and as it was the noon hour many horses had thfir food bags over their hads. Ac Greenwich street they blocked the street. Those that had fallen were kicked and run down by the others trying to get past. 1 tried to get to one of the horses which was not injured, but which had fallen, i made an effort to get him on Ms feet, but was kicked in the head." X X X W. II. Sergeant, who occupies an offlc on the twenty-second floo" of the Syndicate building, the tallest sky-scrapper la this city, watched the Are and subsequent explosions from the window of his office. He gave the following account of his Impressions: "I had been watching the fir for six or seven minutes when the first explosion occurred. This was wvak compared to those that followed. In all there 'were three explosions. The third one which was the strongrst. fairly took us off our feet, and after it was over left us all lit a shiver. It seemed to sweep into the office through tho open window and thrn out again. From here it looked like a huge black mass rising into the air. Then it broke and for everal minutes the dehri was flying in the air as far as Vesxejr street. That black mass, wnen it iio, discharged a perfect shower of twistet beams, lumber, parts of tin rooflnj and other objects. As long as fifteen mlnutrj after it occurred pieces of wrapping kept coming down."