Show JERSEY G C CITY ITY HIT N IT BY COSTLY FIRE FIFTEEN MAY DIE FROM BURNS AND HURTS FLAMES VISIT INDUSTRIAL SECTION Two Thousand Children Thrown Inti Panic By Terrific Explosions Explosion Firemen Called From New York Jersey Jeney City City City-A A conflagration which started in the salt petre plant of ot the Richardson Chemical company len leaped leaped leap leap- ed beyond control of the fire forces of two clU cities s to the abandoned plant of the American Sugar Refinery company company company com com- pany and then destroyed several smaller mailer factories and two rows of ot tenement houses raged for four hours houri before firemen declared It under under un un- der control The loss it is estimated will run into millions of dollars dollar Fifteen 1 1 pet persons were seriously injured Injure or ot burned scores cores of ot others were cut b bj bl glass blown ou out over a mile half radius by a series of explosions explosion and 00 families were made The tenement houses destroyed Included in eluded most of the buildings in thi thE th block lock i bounded by Morris MorriS' Warren Essex and W Washington ton streets Two thousand children from a nearby nearby near near- by public school were rushed out of ot the building As they came into Inte the street a terrific explosion tore tort the roof root from the plant hurled it fifty feet into the air and scattered It it in all aU directions for sev several ral blocks The children terrorized terrorize I fled through the streets Five hundred policemen finally herded them out of the danger danger dan dan- ger zone Parents and children in tenement tenements in the vicinity were removed in taxi taxicabs taxicabs taxicabs cabs and eight ambulances to safe regions regions' At o'clock fire in the rear section of the American Sugar re refinery refinery finery building forced the fire ers ere to retreat The walls at atthe the rear of the building were beginning to cave rave Plants of the Vulcan Iron Works company and of the Manhattan Electric Supply company also are menaced The walls of ot the refinery crumpled crum cruet pled suddenly and fell with a series of like cannon-like reverberations Fire Fire- ment said they expected to keep the names flames from the warehouse across the street Stores of sulphuric acid in the sugar refinery began exploding afternoon afternoon after noon and threw blazing debris into groups of firemen Additional fire lines Jines were brought to bear on the new danger and other streams were directed on the Lehigh Valley Valluy railroad railroad rail rail- road coal pockets in the burning area Firemen and policemen were fre fre- fre- fre forced to lie Jie down on sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks to catch a breath of lifesaving ing air as the salt petre fumes were driven upon them At the end of Essex street hundreds of families with their household goods about them sought safety from their wooden wood wood- en houses and were moved to safer sections A baby was born in a police station station sta sta- sta tion lon during the fire after the mother moth moth- er had been carried d from her home by firemen Three fireboats and six Lehigh Valley railroad tug boats bonts poured water on the Colgate warehouse inan in inan inan an effort to save a million dollars worth of soap in storage An overhead overhead overhead over over- head walk which conn connected the warehouse ware ware- house howe with the burning refinery threatened to carry c the bl blaze ze to the stored soap The threat was ended when the walk collapsed |