Harrison Hightower Disappears at Tower of Terror, was an article published in The New York Globe Telegraph, on Monday, January 1, 1900. It reported the explosion at the Hotel Hightower.
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HARRISON HIGHTOWER DISAPPEARS AT TOWER OF TERROR
HOTEL HIGHTOWER CLOSED TO PUBLIC
NEW YORKERS ARE STILL REELING AFTER THE SHOCKING EVENTS at HOTEL HIGHTOWER last night.What began as a joyous celebration ended in SADNESS for many Manhattanites.
11:59 p.m. - All day long people had streamed into the city on elevated trains and streetcars, to join the general throng in the streets as the celebrated the impending turn of the century.
They were standing on roof tops, dancing in the parks, crowding onto balconies and stopping traffic as they began the exuberant count-down of the last few seconds of the nineteenth century, eager to welcome in the twentieth century with cheers, toasts and choruses of "Auld Lang Sine".
Harrison Hightower presenting the statue Shiriki Utundu to the New York Press.
Appearances[]
- Signs in front of the attraction Tower of Terror in Tokyo.