Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-05-08
DYNAMITETS FATAL WORK.
ezysa pERsol IS KILLED AND AscoRE
BADLY INJURED.

the ground and wrecking hundreds oil
Others, The following are the names OF
the killed;
John Quinn, aged 40.
Katie Quinn, aged :.
Willie Kayanagh, aged 15.
Mary kayanngh, aged 8.
Panl berwick, aged g..
Alice Kerwick, aged4.
Infant child Of S. Kerwick, born dur
ing the afternoon.
Wounded-Mrs, Miles Dougherty, leg
broken.
Mrs. Annis Matthews, mother OF Mrs.
Dougherty, also had a leg broken.
Two chflden OF Mrs. Dougherty, Annie
and Agnes, badly injured.
John Donald, hand seriouoly hurt.
james Mead, struck about the head
and face, badly injured.
Mrs. Patrick Mead is so badly hurt
that death is expected at any moment.
Andrew Mcclure and wife, badly hurt,
no hopes entertained of their recovery.
Mrs. Chris Magill, injured by falling
timber, not seriously.
Jos. Hosiier, badly hurt about the
head.
James Rafferty,, cut about the head
: and bruised.
fars. Alice Dormer, injured in the leg.
Jas. Dormer, injured also in the leg.
Mrs. Patrick Rafferty,, cut and bruised.
Mrs. Thomas Rafferty,, cut about the
head.
Simon Kerwick, injured about the head
and burned.
Dennis Reardon, badly cut about the
face and body.
The engine drawing seventy cars was
rIJ nnif,fy dnxry, t1a sr,nti. - - -zA-
to make O siding n mile west of the
gar, to allow the Philadelphia fast line
south he right OF way, The engineer
slowed up when in the gap, but the cars
had attained such q momentum that the
engineer was obliged to run fast to keep
the tank from being bumped; the head
oil steam was too much for the coupling,
and the seventh car from the locomotive
broke loose. The engine was stopped to
make q new coupling when the broken
train met with a shock sufficient to x
plode the dynamite. The force of the
explosion shook the ground for twenty
miles around, wrecking many houses in
Mt, carmel and the neighborhood.
The train men, aided by the horror
stricken Inhabitants, rushed to the RES
cue, n succeeded In saving many lives
from the burning buildings. OF the
dead nothing remains but a few charred
ctiips OF bone found in the ruins. q
subscription list has been started in Sha-
mokin and ~neighEoring towns. A num-
Der. OF the wounded have been taken to
the Miners hospital.
The Reading railroad track at the point
Of the accident just at the extreme west
ern end of Locust Gap, is about 200 feet
above the level ofsthe street, and runs
alongside the mountain. AT about this
distance below the o there IL a street
Containing one single dwelling on the
north side and three double ones on tho
south. OF these seven nothing now re-
mains; they were completely torn down
BY the explosion, and then fired the rest.
On the same street some hundred yards
east, stand nine more houses, a row dou4
Bile and o single. While not SO entirely
demolished, they too, show plain EVIL
dence Of the destructive force of the ex-
piosidh. Boards are torn out, roofs cayed
In and the interiors are simply masses Of
wrecked furniture. So greatwas the up-
ward force OF the exploding power that
the car wheels and axles were throwna
distance OF 200 yards. One axle fell
through the roof of N of the houses on
the lower street. Onthe hill above traces
OF the debris may be found a quarter of
q mile away, while between that
distance and the wreck there
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