Tuesday, October 30, 1900

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The Headlines

DEATH AND HAVOC FOLLOW EXPLOSION; Many Bodies May Be Under Destroyed Buildings. FIRE LEADS TO DISASTER Business Block in a Moment a Scene of Ruin. LOWER CITY'S TERROR About Forty Missing and Many Score Injured -- Warren Street from Greenwich to Washington Utterly Wrecked -- Flames Start in Tarrant & Co.'s Drug House -- Giant Shock Spreads a Panic for Blocks Around -- Great Buildings Shaken as If by an Earthquake -- The Doomed Structures Collapse Like Houses of Cards -- Bank's Currency Scattered -- Falling Electric Wires Strike Horses Dead -- Elevated Station and Track Destroyed and Traffic Stopped -- No Search of the Ruins Yet Possible.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

Slang

Tech Check

Kodak Brownie Camera, Zeppelin Airships & Escalators.

Style of 1900

Silhouette: S-bend corset and pouter pigeon chest

Material: Lace, silk, and heavy wool

• Gibson Girl hair
• Parasols
• High collars

Cost of Living (1900)