, 1880-07-22
BURIED alive.
Caving-ln Of the Hudson
River Tunnel at Jersey
City,
Caused by Carelesness Of the,
Workmen in the Air.
Caisson.
A Torriblo Crush Of Earth and
Rush Of Water tho Coll-
sequence.
Of the Thirty Persons at Work in
the Tunnel OF the
Time,
Only Seven Are Known to
Have Escaped from
the Vortex,
And Tllcso Saved Their Lives Only
Mt tic Expense OF the
Others.
Thrilling Tales Told by Several
Survivors Of the
Wreck.
Description Of the caisson En-
p1oyed in the Great
Work.
Thrilling Tales Told by Several
Survivors of the
Wreck.
Description Of the Caisson En-
ployed in the Great
Work.
AN AWFUL DISASTER.
TWENTY NEN KILLED.

NEW YO1tK, July el.-The chaptor OF Accdcnts
which Inns made this summer memorable was
supplemented this morning By n calamity In
which twenty mon lost the!r lives Mt tho cn-
tranca Of the Hudson River Tunnel Mt tho font
Of Fifteenth atroot, In Jersey City. 4 portion
Of the connection chamber, known nlso rs tho
grand archwRy, between tho working shaft and
tho grand tunnel proper, cavcd In ut 4:Jo In tho
morning. Tho wAtor of tho rlvur, with which
tho soil was saturated, poured rapidly In. and Of
tho twonty -oi9ht mon who wore working In tho
chamber. twenty wnru
EITHER RupFoCATED Or DROWNED.
Tho eight who escaped did 30 through tho air.
lock, anti thoir reRcue was almost a mirnclc.
Al midnight the shift Of twenty eght mon
In the tunnel was changed, md tho following
workmcn, under tho supervision of Assistant
Superintendent Pctor Woodland, descended tho
shaft: Frank Olson md Thotnaa Burke, foro-
mon; Thomas brady, Christian Hanson, 3. Nc
0oven, T. Van Nosirand. A. j. Moline, John
Doyle, james Hayes, John Crcovy. 4. Erickson,
Potor Frolsshcr, rntrick Kirvln Charles Neil
aoll, Wlllinin Y. Da9eoy. Androw Jacolson,
Bryan Sheridan, Charles SvonsolI, G. Anderson,
frank Hush, Matthew McCarty. Otto nesselcn,
john JonHon, Patrick Collins. Patrick Hro41crlck,
Miuhaci nrodgrick, and Thomas Crmnins.
THE WORK IN WiuCH THEY WE'RE EHnAGEp
was In making connection botwcen tho Iron
plates OF tho roof OF tho grant arch a1sd tho
brick work Of tic working ahaft. For support,
this iron root doponded upon strong wooden
braces, and upon tho compressed mir which was
forced down from abovo by nlcNna OF air COM
rressers, and which cxcrtcd MI uplifting powor
OF twenty pounds to tho s1uaro Inch. Tho eafo-
ty Of tho mon md Of tho work 1cpondcd prlncl.
pnlly upon the
COErItol OF THIS CoMpnRssrD AIR.
A small lcnk, through which It might pass tlp.
wnrl through tho thirty feet Of mud ind cindors
which ooyor tho tunnel, was linble to occur ut
Auy tno, and, un!ess discovered and stopped In
selso,, to cause tho ontlro mnss OF materIal to
como tumbllng down lntn tho archway. This
fact was perfectly well understood by tho mon
as weal as thofr foreman, and steady watch
w,,s kept for air loaka, which, when found, woro
nj onca stopped up BY tho Silt in tho tunnel,
which hn8 tho consistency, AMI much Of tho vir-
IT wAs pnonAnLY
owing to relaxation Of thls constant watch
tllnt tho terrible calamity OF to-day was duo.
Half tho SHIFT OF twenty-eHht men loft tho
tunnel ut o'clock in tho morning, and pissed to
tho surface through tho shaft to cat their lunch,
They rettMncd at about 400 to rcliovo tha'r
comrndes, and 1t WAS at this tlrne that tho t!s-
nster occurred. While tho chango was being
made hiBsiug sound was hear1l, which all RCD
ogntzed Instantly as tho notso Of escaping air. 1t
grew louder "a tho vent Increased In szc, md
Utmost Immediately tho timber supporting tho
roof began To sway.
THEN TtIRRx WAS A gJIARp CltAOK,
tho heavy joasta snapped lfEk0 bHtnbooB, and tho
tht.ty foet OF stlt anl cInders which covered tho
chamber to tho loycl Of tho working shaft was
pFccipItatcl upon tho hoa<s OF tho doomed mon.
| Eight OF thom-lrldy, Hanson, MoDovcr1. Van
/ hostrand, Moline, Doyle, flhyca, and Crlnmlns,
had titno to leap into tho alr-look. A ninth,
| forotnan Frank Olson. passod his right nr1u
through tho open door, but before ho GOULD enter
tho t,oavy Iron Of tho roof foil against tho door,