The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-12-19
BLOWN TO FRAGMENT
= TUeBoAT's BOELEE EXPLAIN,
AT NEW YORK.
Everybody on Hoard tho UuFortupu,. n.
Instantly Kiued.

Everybody IN Board tho Unfortunuae a..
Instantly Killed.
The recent blowing up Of Fln,d n,
He'll Cats, Now York city, was = -.
spectacle, hut an explosion on tupo.t u, "
thBsame place the other afternoon -. ~
more terrible in it's effects. From tbo - -
politan Journals We gather the fooyyino -, ~
ticulars:
The tug Durie Emory, of Hobokap e..
at dusk to make up tow to no II Ror 49,
by hauling out from Car.dse Il Smitbis ~.
&C the foot o. East Sigty@thftd street y.
empty brick seov Half dozen men men ~ =.
on the scow, and MS soon ns The tur kaaSss
down stream, against ths IN ~
down In the hold to eat their rrnnsy ~,
tug was to pick up another seow n sss..
third street, and kept within 400 feas \ Y,
New YORK shore. She had reached Fii,s
ninth street at about 5:S5 P. NJ and ,r.l "A
the bluff known as Riverview Ierraco N, n u
she blew mp with report that persoDs a ,ssl
Charity hospital ON BlRckwells Island Island. ~ ~
was much louder than the last Hell lias. "
plosion.
The upper worlts OF the tug aupaa,sa 4.
leave her suddenly and the hull srrs,i
hers war q momensury glare, lour sbc.s
with sort Of lIll in the middle, and NJ ~.
q column of smoke and steam 700 or Ss,6f.,
in the air as straight as O rocket, Wiib,s.
column went all sorts OF wre.f. ami so,u.
say they saw one man who mnrss
his limiJs in the air. Then a wraot,s-
began TO fall over an area which extsBdS
from First avenue to near Blackwells lslsn5i
and for many blocks up and down thsriypr
Nest of the debris was small and patssrd
like haiistones in the streets and 81 rooii
but loud thuds and crashes told Of lsrv5.
pieces falling on houses and nave
ments and in yards Tie smoka4Fsk
and part CT the steam pipes were throw, N
the rocks nt the foot Of East Fiftv.sjo,tlb
street and the shore was strswn with n
sorts of wrecizage Few windows RENAME
unbrOiken on River View terrace, and innsv
houses south of it, which are known as Riv,,
View, and hundreds Of panes Of glass WEN
broken in the Heighborhood Of Ayeuue 4
and Fifty-eighth street, which is knoWnN
Sutton place.
Within q very few minutes 5000 psrsm,
were at the river front OF OH their Eay thetg
and within a quarter of an hour four TIM,
that number were on the shore or on the tsra
race in front of which the exploSm
took nlace, peering into tho dafknsg
Police Captain Gunner and a section
of policemen went to Fifty.aeHtR
street at the double quick Nhm
the tug blew up Pilot McAvuy was Steering
the steamboat William H. Wickham aeros
TO the island. Hemade quickly for the seov.
which was drifting helphsssly, partly kseM
over. toward Sixtieth street, Her bows Hes
shattered, but those on board cried ont 70
him that none of them were hurt, bat thit
SIX men on tine Dorie Emory bad persisted
Tbere was not trace Of the tug to bssM
ON the water except here and tHasre pieed
timber. Making fast to the se1HF, Gapas
Wckyoy waited until the Cornell TUG 0ruby
came along and took her in tow. The men
on the scUw, although she was making vlH
fast, declined TO leave her, with thseZceph@
Of one who went in the William Il. Wiz.
ham In the meantime at least thirty Gat
mad rafbered around, and the water EH
natroIled in every direction 10 d.
toyar those who were on u
t,,o when she blew u No trace was found
sTeer,i. some receipts apd billhsads.
Wi,or the damage done on shore wash
r,stigated II E+as fpnnd that, aithonghnoGi
was hurt. hupdr, IDS had bad r. 49, asaPs
IN tba St5sats and il; houses. A timber Ehit
M - S men conld hardly Lift fellat Fityegh
street ard First avenue, lntlNg s, ugle = u
pavement Pieces of iroN alll t'iiius, w
distributed promiscuOusly N y 'l7 a''''N
and many windows were sha N ~
Five or six men--the cap aia, eiisia's,
fireman, cook and deck-hauds-N e's w y.
fnpbOat at the time of the explos y u $3.50 l.a,,
a vestige Of any of them, alive or de Wy Vaa
he found.