Skip to Content  New York, NY Gas Explosion, Sept 1889   Front
of a New York Mansion Blown Into the Direct---One Man Killed.
New York, Setp[sic]. 28.---A terrible gas explosion followed by
a succession of minor explosions wrecked the three-story brown
stone dwelling of F. W. Frischen, a wealthy tobacconist, at 121
East Fifty-Sixth Street, today. The entire from of the house was
blown down and a portion of the rear wall demolished.  Charles
Schalk, a decorator, is supposed to have been killed and his
body buried beneath a mass of bricks and broken timbers. The
force of the explosion was so great that several houses in the
vicinity were badly damaged.  Mr. Frischen and his family are on
the ocean on their way home from Europe and their house was in
the hands of decorators and painters.  The New Haven Evening
Register, New Haven, CT 28 Sept 1889  article | by Dr. Radut