Show HURLED INTO TUE AIRI I Great SevenStory Building of Tarrant 1 Co New York Completely Wrecked i by Mysterious Explosion i Lover End of Manhattan Island Shaken as if by EarthquakeFire Follows the Wrecking of the Structure and Two Blocks oj Buildings Were DestroyedBut One Life Known to be Lost Iany Persons InjuredNumber Missing New York Oct 29The long list of I fire horrors that have occurred In and around the city of New York was added I today by a fire and explosion which I shook the lower end of Manhattan island Isl-and like an earthquake hurled a sev j enstory building Into the all and set I fire to two blocks of buildings with a loss o life that only the efforts of I hundreds of men who were rushed to he work of digging away the ruins I as soon as the fire was extinguished will reveal I The big building of Tarrant Co makers of medical specialties standIng stand-Ing at the northwest corner of Greenwich Green-wich and Warren streets and filled with chemicals tool fire In some way that may never be known at about 1215 this afternoon An alarm was sounded followed quickly by a second and third One fire company had just arrived when t terrific explosion occurred oc-curred and threw the entire engine I crew down the stairway The firemen i 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 rent the crowd which had gathered on the opposite op-posite sidewalks Engineer Rocknberry and Fireman Brown were Injured by falling glass as was another fircmoji belonging to the company HURLED ACROSS THE STREET Capt Devanncy of the company ordered or-dered his crew back Into the building again They were dragging the line to the doorway the second time when there came an explosion more terrific than the first and the whole crew was hurled across Greenwich street De vannoy was so badly Injured that he was sent to a hospital In the meantime mean-time the Qther engines that had responded re-sponded to the alarm had collected and the firemen were busy rescuing people from surrounding buildings Firemen Iiacl already taken many girls d w the only fire escape upon the building and more persons had been carried down the escape of the Home Made restaurant I res-taurant next door and the buildings adjolhlng upon Warren street SECOND EXPLOSION The second explosion occurred about five minutes after the first From the accounts of witnesses the building seemed to leap Into the air and In a moment masses of brick wall timbers and stone were falling Into the street The force of the explosion tore away the walls of the big commission storehouses store-houses fronting on Washington street and caused them to collapse falling all at once In a mass of timber boxes and barrels from which the llames which burst out from the Tarrant building like belching of a cannon WARREN STREET AFLAME Across Warren street to the opposite buildings the flames leaped setting them afire at once the work of the explosion ex-plosion demolishing windows and all wooden structures about the houses In a moment Warren street was choked 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 count-less number of smaller ones WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION The second explosion carried destruction destruc-tion In every direction That It did not cause wholesale loss of life was due to the fact that almost ten minutes warning came after the first cry of fire and fully five minutes occurred between be-tween the first and minor explosion which warned every one within hearing hear-ing and the second one Just after the break of lire from the windows of the building a downtownbound train stopped at the Warren street station of the Ninth Avenue elevated road I passed on In time to escape the explosion ex-plosion 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 station-master fled across the structure carl rIng r-Ing with him the receipts of the day and his unused tickets while two women wo-men who had stopped on the platform to watch the fire frightened by the first explosion fled down the downtown tracks in safety The big explosion completely carried away the station MASS OF WRECKAGE Immense masses of masonry pieces of cornice great beams window casings cas-ings and an Indescribable moss of wreckage of every description tumbled suddenly into the street in front of tIme building all at once The force of the explosion below had thrown the firemen back across the street so that trcinen bac they were not caught but their escape from the rain of debris across the street was almost miraculous BANK BUILDING WRECKED The wreckage vas thrown across through the windows of the building tJebuldlng In which the Irving National bank JB on the northeast corner of the street I The officers In the Irving bank and of I Mficklem Brothers bankers and brok eis wore nearly wrecked VlcePresl dent Charles Mattlage and John W I Castreel Cashier James A Dennison Assistant Cashier Benjamin F Werner I Dunlap and Adjuster Paying Teller William Dunlapant juster Van Zsldt were In the bank BANK CLERICS FLEE At the first explosion an attempt was made to gather all the money and paper pa-per that were lying 1 on the counters together to-gether and to throw them Into the safes and it was supposed that this hud been done when the second explosion brought flying glass and plastering from l skylighted ceiling down about the heads of everybody and caused them to escape In a hurry MONEY LEFT ON FLOORS Capt RIcCluskey of the detective bureau IcClusle renu who hurried every available man r of his staff to the lire was appealed to to protect the funds or the bank he being be-ing told that they werc In the vault the door of which was Supposed to be unlocked When the captain ant his men went In however ho found about 510000 scattered In confusion ovor counters and floors This was hastllyj 1 thrown Into the vault and the door wag f locked Tne bahkwlll be open coor business busI-ness tomorrow I I In Mecklem Bros ofllces In the basement base-ment when th6 fire broke out JDOOOO In I mtney lay upon the counter One man I was stationed at the door while this I was gathered together for putting In I the vault putng ALMOST ASPHYXIATED I The first explosion filled the place With sulphurous smoke that nearly > asphyxiated everybody The second explosion ex-plosion blew In the windows and cut the two Mecklems Brothers seriously A boy Keckcnberry found two girls lying in a heap fainted away He carried I car-ried them out to a place of safety I Others In the place when they came to their senses gathered the money from the floor put It In cigar boxes and carried car-ried It to safety The other tenants of the building a numcer of lawyers and brokers all escaped Injury STREETS COVERED WITH GLASS The explosion completely demolished windows on Greenwich street on both sides for three blocks In both directions direc-tions The street was covered with fine bits of glass I Tho immense buildings of J I Mohlmann Co fronting on Wash ington street simply collapsed boxes and barrels rolling out and making n pile that stretched halfway across the street I ESCAPED FROM TARRANT BUILDING I BUILD-ING The number of persons in the Tarrant building was estimated to be In the neighborhood of fifty Secretary Allen of the company said that then were fortyfive employees and he thought all got out with the exception of one I People who saw the fire declare however ic1 how-ever that more must have been lost The only person known to have been killed to S oclock tonight kied up was P I man who died in one of the hospitals a the result of an injury received In I the street Chief Crokcr says no firemen fire-men are missing SERIOUSLY INJURED Joseph Bruner Hoboken face hands and head burned will die Carl Burdcrwald Brooklyn both legs brolcen t Daniel Carmody legs crushed Daken burned and cut I Joseph condition con-dition critical Henrietta German Brooklyn cut about head and face internally Injured In-jured may die John ilyrcs New York both legs broken I W S Temple New York leg broken FIRE UNDER CONTROL I I At 3 oclock the fire was completely under control of the firemen the flames still burning fiercely In the Interior of the burned area but danger of spead Ing being over At 4 I oclock the flames had been extinguished in the buildings couth of Warren street and crowds of men from the building department I were put to work tearing down high wallsMANY J MANY BUILDJNGS SHAKEN I The force of the explosion was distinctly dis-tinctly felt In Wall street where the accompanying noises made people think that an earthquake had happened hap-pened on the lower East side In the i vicinity of Trinity church there was Ij much alarm and It was feared that tho r loft spire of the old edifice was about Ito I-to topple over The air was full of scraps of paper and charred wood and a 1 postal card badly scorched and addressed dressed to Tarrant Co fell Into tho I 1 i roadway in front of the Broad street entrance of the Mills building m I The atmosphere throughout th I downtown district was surcharged with a strong odor as If of acids The roofs I of the tall buildings were soon crowded I with spectators and much anxiety was manifested I i Chief Crokcr of the Fire departmenl I J said tonight the loss would reach 1 I 500000 I |