The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-11-08

beliefthat the State Stock Banks are all
fPerfectly able to redeem every dollar.
Another Internal Machine.
Daring attempt to 6LoU I'm a HOTEL
Explosion Of a Keg@ Poacdey in Ea-
rLe,s, Park RoU.
An awful explosion occurred Yesterday
afternoon, in the Office of Earie,s Hotel.
in Park Row. Without a moments
warning, the house was shaken to it's
very roof, aud all its inmates thrown into
a state of confusion and alarm. In the
Office below stairs, among the baggage,
a n explosion of g~unpowder had taken
place. but how, the Cause, or why, no
one was able to explain.
Fortunately, at the time of the explo.
sion there were but few persons in the
office. These we're stunned and thrown
upon the floor, but one of them danger
ously hurt. One man was taken to the
City Hospital, but it is not considered
that his injuries will prove fatal. BY
the force of the explosion, the upper
ceiling was shattered to pieces and scat
tered over the floor as if masoDs had been
at work in the ROOM. The panescof
glass in the front door we're shattered to
pieces, and one or two efthe doors taken
off their hinges. But for the fact that
the front-off the Office was glass, giving
a vent to the powder; the whole house
must have fallen from the roof, and. all
its inmates been buried beneath its ruins,
which. was dou btless the intention of the
heartless fend who was the author of
the act. 4rFg1 IN -.
The Chief of Police with a force was
Immediately on the premises, and an In
vestigation of the affair entered into
The facts of the matter are simply as
follows -: ErlR.HlFW - n
In a small leather travelling ~valise
had been placed a small key of powder,
holding twelve pounds. In one endgof
the key was inserted the muzzle of a small
double barrel pistol, and against the
triggers of the pistol was placed an iron
spring, made to strike the triggers and
create an explosion at a certain time
regulated by the running doWnzsof
weights attached to this trigger spring
The valise was one of an ordinary APP
p~earance, and could be placed, as it was,
in the Office, among the baggage, with
out exciting any suspicion, and at the
hour fixed upon, the machinery would
so revolve within the valise as to perform
the fatal work intended.
The police collected among the frag-
ments the remaips Of the %valise, the
slaves and hoops of the small keg of
powder, the double barreled pistol, and
some of the machinery with which twas
worked, and have them all at present in
the Chiefs office. On the premises also
were found some large shot, which had
no doubt been placed In. the keg to make
the havoc more sure and deadly. II
The Chief and his aids are now in
dustriously at work investigating this
mysterious affair, and it is to be hoped
they will succeed in bringing the black
hearted fend who could devise such a
work. to sure and speedy justice.
ADDITIoNAL.-At the time of the ex-
plosion, fortunately, there were only
three or four persons in the office. Phe
Internal mashine was placed behind the
counter of the Office, and the clerk being
in the Office at tie time, was singularlY
enough, lifted from his feet and thrown
on the outside of the counter without
receiving any injury. One of the walters
of the hotel, named Peter Mourn, was
badly burned about the face and hands
and taken to the City Hospital where
he now lays in much pain but it is
thought his life is not in danger. His
clothes immediately took fire, and he ran
into the streets covered with fame. In
an instant his clothes were torn from his
body, and but for this speedy relief of
his clothing he might have been burned
to death.
One of the guests of the hotel, Nj. R.
Dowd, was also badly burned about the
face, but not dangerously.
The excitement at The hotel immedi-
atelY after the explosion and during the
remainder of the day, was very great
The report of another internal machine
rapidly circulated through the city, and
hundreds betook themselves to Earle's
Hotel to learn the extent of the disas-
ter. The wash room of the hotel was
the worst injured, and it Is remarkable
that this room should receive the great
damage of the shock, situated several
feet from the machine, and protected by
al entry way and one or two doors
One side of the clustering of the wash
room was entirely loosened, and hung
only by the lath work. This is certainly
a diabolical attempt to destroy an entire
building, and CRAFTY some private spite
or to berevenged upon some particular
party.