Show i PERISH IN GAS GAS' FlAMES LAM ES S t TWENTY 1 1 D AD i Ir N NA u g gi s A DITCH DITCHen Men en Were WorKing in ollin Whan a Big a-Big Big Gas Main Ham Exploded and Fire Started ATER WATER PIPES BURST INCREASING HORRORS L Laborers Had No Chance to From Trap Are Roasted to D Death N NEW W YORK Nov 20 O Al An explosion ot gas in a doop trench in Gold street r Brooklyn in which a a. number number of men c were employed today cost probably t. t twenty J lives and throw that section of i tha he city Into a panic anIc Tho The force of tho the on shook ok hundreds of tons of earth stono and ind timber Umber X u upon n tho men menat at work at the tho bottom of tho trench fifty tifty feet below tho the surface f who were not instantly killed drowned in the great volume of 1 water which poured in upon them from breaking mama f or were smothered by byI escaping ping gas glis Somo Some of the tho burled men I also have nave have been burned by tho fire that ton followed owed the tho explosion slon Among those who lost lives Jives rere one woman and three children who ere tre passing through Gold street at the he time me of t the ie e explosion and were earned carried Mown down donn when wilen tho the talks sidewalks t toppled into the o trench nc 5 All the others who Jo lost ot their lives live I were m men n dirc directly upon the work They included Frederick W W. he meyer an inspector of sewers and arid Samuel W. W Trout foro foreman in in charge e of the carpenter a and d. d cement works f Trout lost Jost his lif lifo o in in attempting to rescue rest res res- t cue a woman from boin being killed He Ile was as cau caught bt under fallin falling timbers and roasted to death Many of the others ere Italian workmen some of whom wre known t to their employers only by numbers fe A remarkable feature of the tho a. a accident ident wap that four men who were working in inthe inthe in inthe the lower part art of the trench and who d bea-d the first sound of crumbling crumblin timber tim tim- be herd ber I saved their lives live by crawling through b a 3 sewer pipe which ib led towards Bait ast ri river or These men were obliged to tomake tomake tomake make th their lr way through gb water almost almot up to their necks before they thoy reached place of safety At 3 0 o'clock this afternoon it we d that four or five hours hours' work Won d be r required to reach the bodies I. I in the bottom of the tho tr trench All the ther I r light wires in that section of r Brooklyn rooklyn r were ere broken by the explosion tad a t. t portion portion- of the city may bo ho with with- lout Lent Dut lights toni tonight ht r r- The excavation was to be nearly forty lorty feet deep and as the laborers ro- ro moved the earth the walls had bad b been en labored bored up by lar large e timbers timber With Ch hares Charles a I. I city inspector of I eWers feWers overseeing overS the work the tho men working at the bottom of the trench trench when an a accumulation of ot gas s from Thom a main which had bad been bean accidentally accidentally accidentally accident accident- ally brok broken n durin during the course of the Wo work k exploded wi with h tremendous ous force I ator and Flames If f- f The supporting timbers timber were ripped sipped away wy and the high direct walls toppled r fever over on and his bis men A large e wa water r main also T was broken by th the tho force of tho explosion and a perfect torrent of water bc began an to spurt up through th the tho mass of wreckage Almost side by side with these geysers reared the tho flames mes' mes from the tho gas aa S e escaping from the broken main t. t Firemen an and workmen from froni the t C city ater atei lep department and from the gs gad company compan worked dc desperately together inan in an effort t to chock check the flow of gas and It and to relieve the men who had hild hadlen b ben len en imprisoned r The explosion was ViS followed cd by scenes of intense excitement Every for blocks around bad had been c se s-h s shaken en A br largo large e Roman Catholic Cath olic olie church and parochial re re- cd nearly Dearly the full force of nf the hock In the crowd which flocked to o othe the mothers who had had little children ln in the school |