The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-05-18
DIREFUL DYNAMITE


miles from this place. - eleven O'Clock
saturday night. when car loaded with
dynamite exploded. killing seven people
wounding twenty. some seriously. burn
inR eight houses. leveling four blocks 20
the ground and wrecking hundreds Of
others. The following are tho names Of
abe killed:
John Quinn. AGED forty.
Willie Eavanargh. aged fifteen.
Mary Eavanaugh. aged nine.
Alice Kerwick. aged four.
Infant child OF q Kcrwick, born during
the afternoon
The engine, drawing seventy cars, Vas
running down the grade At rapid rate
20 make siding one mile west OF the Gap
% allow the Philadelphia fast line south
the right Of way. The engineer slowed up
when in the Gap. but the cars had At
tanned such : momentum that he was
Obliged 10 run fast to keep the tank from
being bumped: the head OF steam was too
much for the couplings. and the seventh
CIR from the locomotive broke loose. The
engine vas stopped 70 make new coup
linz. when the broken train met with .
shock sufficient % explode the dynamite.
The force Of the explosion shook the
ground for twenty miles round wrecking
many houses in Mt. Carmel and vicinity.
The frainmen. aided bv the horror-strlck-
en- inhabitants. rushed % the rescue. and
succeeded in saving many lives from the
burning buildings O: the dead nothing
remains but few charred chips Of bone
found In the ruins
A subscription list has been started in
Shamokin and neighboring towns. A
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20 the Miners Hospital.
The Reading railroad track, 1t the
point Of the accident just 1t the extreme
western end Of the town. Is about two
hundred feet above the level OF the street.
and runs alongside the mountain Al
about this distance below the road there
il . street containing one single dwelling
on the north side and three double ones
on the south. OF these seven nothing now
remains: they we're completely torn down
By the explosion and then IRE did thelrest
II Vas in these that all the deaths oc.
CURED. NJ. and Mrs. Kerwick- Who lost
their three children, had : miraculous es-
cape The man was blown out OF the
window. and only slightly injured He
then cot his sick wife ont Of the burning
building. and afterward rescued several
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About . hundred yards below these
buildings. there is another row Of four
double houses; these are terribly demol-
ished. but Gre Vas arrested BY the prompt
ness Of The dweliers in extinguishing the
burning coal OF the stoves.
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All the roads leading % TIE horrible
wreck are lined with vehicles going and
returning. Locust Gap i town Of about
two thousand inhabitants
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