Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-05-19

ana Inere Is prospect IOF u A14Aenhg Hsne |
Of the hugest dimensions. How it viii all
result, no one knows. But the whole world
wishes that it was over in one way or an
other. Tilton is lecturing in the West, and
his wife and her mother are keeping board
ers.
THE BERGEN EXPLOSIONS.
Last Saturday night, just as the honest
burghers Of New York were putting on
their night-caps, after an unusually hot
evening, they were startled by very loud
and sharp explosion, apparently in the next
block to everybody. 1t was louder than
any Fourth Of July cannon, and rang like
the crack of a rife. People poked their
heads out Of window, and concluded that
their next neighbor had committed suicide,
or killed rat with large charge Of pow
der, or there was soda fountain explosion,
or something. The latter guess, as usual
was right. The next morning all the city
was aquiver over the explosion of the pow
der magazine on the crest of Bergen hill,
three-quarters of mile from the Hoboken
ferry, in which the contractor for the new
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road tunnel had stored about $1,000 nitro
glycerine cartridges used for blasting the
tunnel, and about 800 pounds of giant
powder. This was heavy charge, and
the effect was awful. A shock as Of an
earthquake was followed by the falling Of
houses, roofs, and the crashing Of walls
and windows all over Jersey City and He-
boken, reaching across the river, and felt
in New York. On the west side shop win
dows were shattered, and the gas put out
fully two miles from the explosion. The
shock was felt at Yonkers, and ten miles
away, on Staten Island, its force shook the
ground, and rolled the ships in the bay,
which before was perfectly still. It is
pretty certain that the explosion was the
work Of strikers, who refused to work in
the tunnel for $1.25 day. There had
been much trouble with the men previous
ly, and when strikes occurred the giant
powder was always carefully removed,
which, this time had not yet been done.
Wonderfully, no lives were lost, and the
strikers, If they committed this terrible
deed, are spared the crime, though not the
guilt, Of blood-guiltiness.
THE CAR ELEYAroR ACCIDENT
It is wonderful that so little harm to life
should follow such an accident. Anothe
which took place on Monday night, half
mile from the scene of the explosion, was
more horrible in its results. The cars
which run from the Hoboken ferry are
5oisted up the hill by steam elevator,
saving nearly an hour lost by going up the
hill in the old way. The two fore-wheels
of the car had just passed on the platform
of the elevator, when the wires, probably
disarrsnged by the shock of the explosion,
gave the signal all right, the elevator be-
gan to move, and the car toppled over,
falling thirty feet, throwing passengers
from the platform, and burying others un-
der its bloody wreck. Hardly any of the
twenty-seyen passengers escaped without
injury, and several have since died.
THE CENTENNIAL
Is already beginning to be felt in New
York. The great mass of people on their
way to Philadelphia come by way Of New
York, and the hotels and boarding houses
are beginning to look up. The opening day
in Philadelphia was an immense success, to
which New York contributed quite as
much as the Quaker City. The city was
literally emptied. The trains to Philadel-
phia were loaded for three days in advance,
and New York was well-nigh deserted.
The next day the majority came back, all,
indeed, except those who had goods to ex-
hibit, and who propose to stay during the
exposition. The Centennial is great sue
cess, and advise every one of your read
ers to come and see it. Come to Philadel-
phia and see the great show, come over to
New York and see the great metropolis,
and go home wiser and better men and
women. 1t won't happen again for an
hundred years, and we shall none of us
have another chance. Make the trip
cheap one. Don't attempt any style what
ever, and above all, don't be ashamed to
ask questions, and look about you all you
can. See all that is to be seen, at the low
est possible price. and my word for it, you
viii never regret the expenditure. Every |
farmer and every mechanic in the United |
States. with their wives snd daughters,
ought to come east this season, if they new
er do it again.
BUSINESS