Show TERRIBLE GAS EXPLOSION sixt aen persons pa in full barned in iines I 1 ew york fire eire NEW feb 6 A firo fire caused by a gas explosion in tho the collar cellar destroyed the ive five story tenement house on oil west thirty ninth street this afternoon af tor noon tho building was occupied oc pl by twenty families es john peter hon boll gas in inspector specter was killed hilled and sixto sixteen oll inmates of the house painfully burned one or two of thom them may lie die Pet eibon had been sent in into the collar to repair leaking pipes ho had been in tho the coller wenty twenty minutes when john Wa schmon who oc occupied aupied the first floor hward heard him groat groaning ling and taking tah ing up tip a candle ho he started towards the celler A As s lie ho opened the door a sheet of flame shot out and then followed a leport lepor fc baschman Wa Was chillian and liis his clork clerk john manning were blown into tho street mclaughlin laii laughlin 0 ailin another employee was hurled twenty feet and lay unconscious the big ton tenement ement shook with th the 0 foleo of tho the explosion thore there wore were wild shrieks of terror from every floor and scream screaming hig women and children gushed to windows and alro escapes out of one hundred or more persons who lived on oil the upper floors f few can call tell liow how they escaped the firemen who canio camo on the alio first alarm found tho the building ablaze A second and third a arm were ordered scaling ladders wore were placed against ta the side of the building and long extending ino 0 ladders raised to tho roof down these tho the tenants swarmed the pecuniary loss is about |