Show JERSEY CITY G C ITY HIT H IT BY COSTLY FIRE FIDE FIFTEEN MAY DIE DE FROM BURNS AND HURTS FLAMES VISIT INDUSTRIAL SECTION Two Thousand Children Thrown int inh Panic PanIc By Terrific Explosions Firemen Called From New York Jersey City City City-A A conflagration which started in the salt petre plant of the Richardson Chemical company leaped leaped leaped leap leap- ed beyond control of the theire fire ire forces of two cities to the abandoned plant of the American Sugar Refinery compan company com corn pany pan and then destro destroyed ed several smaller factories and two rows of or tenement houses raged for four foul hours before firemen declared it under under under un un- un- un der control The loss it is estimated will vill run into millions of dollars Fifteen persons were seriously injured o or burned scores of others were cut b bj by glass blown ou out over a n mile half-mile radius by hy a series of explosions explosions- and md families were made homeless The tenement houses cestro Destroyed ed in eluded most of the buildings in the block bounded by Morris Morris- Warren Essex and Washington streets Two thousand children from a n nearby near near- by b- ay public school were rushed out of the building As they came hit hit- the street a terrific explosion tore the roof from the plant hurled it fifty feet into the air and scattered it t in all alJ directions for several blocks The children terrorized fled through the streets Five hundred policemen finally h herded them out of the danger danger dan dan- ger zone Parents and children in ir tenement in n the vicinity were removed in taxi taxicabs taxicabs taxicabs cabs and eight ambulances to safe regions regionS' At o'clock fire in the rear lear section of the American Sugar re refinery refinery refinery finery building forced the fire figat ers to retreat The walls at the rear of the building were beginning to cave Plants of the Vulcan Iron Works Yorks company and of the Manhattan Electric Supply company I also are menaced The walls of the refinery crumpled crumpled crum crum- pled suddenly and fell feU with a series of like cannon reverberations Fire Fire- ment mont said they expected to keep the flames lames from the warehouse across the street a Stores of f sulphuric acid in the sugar refinery began exploding after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon and threw blazing debris into groups of firemen Additional fire lines ines were brought to bear on the new danger and other streams were directed on the Lehigh Valley y railroad railroad rail rail- raiJI I road coal conI pockets in the burning I area Firemen and policemen were fre- fre forced to lie down on sidewalks sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks to ca catch h a breath of lifesaving lifesaving ing ng 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 sta sta- sta- sta non tion we lire alter aier the Lao mother moth moin- er had been carried from her home by ay firemen Three fireboats and six Lehigh Valley railroad tug boats poured water or on the Colgate warehouse in inan inan inan an effort to save a million dollars worth of soap in storage An overhead overhead overhead over over- head walk which connected the warehouse warehouse warehouse ware ware- house with the burning refinery threatened to carry the blaze to the stored soap The threat was ended when the walk collapsed |