| Show HORSES AND OTHER DAMAGES INFLICTED BY BURSTING OF WATER NAIR MAIN By International News les Service Ser YEW YEW- Fob 12 Hundreds of ot were overcome by ROB gue many of ot them being carried from their apartment apart apart- ment unconscious seventeen valuable horsen were dr drowned ned and a a. h hundred automobiles automobiles au au- au t were were were- demolished de ns as tho of the bursting th this thia afternoon of a six foot water min main at West seventh Ninety-seventh str street tr it l and 1 West End iv avenue nu nuE Th The rr freak ak caused a jL mk leak In a three Inch gas as math and the thc eC escaping fumes eSCA escaped e-d e to tho tile entire district Tho The bunting of ot the tho water main w. w was Jn i effect a. a miniature earthquake ake Great fissures were opened In th the pavement pa and ltd the center of seventh Ninety street forced d upward three e feet teet B Basement Stable Flooded The Tho flood of ot water was Wb first dt discovered cov- cov ered tired In the tile basement of or the Thedford arage In West sixth Ninety street where thirty horses were stabled P Peter Dave DatI voy a a. and Policemen Policeman I and an any V. y R. R doffed their thelt cl clothes thol and nd with the temperature but little hove above x zero ro swam from stall etall to KUJI WI cutting tho the horses homes halters The water soon rose roes almost to tho the ceiling and when whon the three men thought of their own s safety they found twenty oat boxes piled against t the door of the runway run By Hy Byan Byan Hyan an almost superhuman effort they thoy dis dislodged lodged lodS-cd th the boxes and pulled some of ot the horses put out with them Davey foil toll In a n. dead taint faint and was rushed to a. a hospital where It was wai said ald ho he had only a a. slight chance of off rec a recovery ry The policemen so cold old they Wore oro unable to speak ran all the way to th their lr station thawed out In Inthe Inthe Inthe the boiler room and returned to the gar- gar age e. e Horses Were Valuable The hor horses e destroyed were Ire valued Itt tit titan an average of or each Among tn thorn them n was a big P ron named Jim winner winner win win- ner ncr of or the the- blue ribbon at the workhorse parade parado last lut Memorial day and valued at 2000 Two T hundred of or the SOO automobiles In the garag ara were In the tho repair room mom beneath Rth the street floor and a hundred af of them were smashed to the floor All were t hurled hurld a against aminat tho the walls by the waters and battered l to ere ers An aeroplane which several ral chauffeurs chant chant- feurs had just juat completed was as also allo de do- do A score of or A- A apartment houses hOUIe and private private vate Vats r residences ld were era filled with the es escaping es- es caping gas gall and reserve policemen In Inserted In- In every room In the tho district to tomake tomake tomake make suro that n nb one had b been n overcome over over- come coma and left behind The superintendent superintend superintend- nd- nd ent ant of ot the Holyoke yoke apartments was found overcome In the tha basement and ten per per- tons were wert taken to hospitals from a I rooming house across s the street t. t When I Ithe the poUce ordered toe the water supply cut cutoff cutoff I off oft tho the engineers had to draw their I tl fires s to prevent their boilers from burstIng bursting burst- burst Jn Ing and Intense suffering from tram tho the cold i I was aS the tho result I I |
