The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-02-25
ETxi ACCIDENT.

a very sad accident occurred III
Duluth last Wednesday morning from
a blast on the road work of that city.
The News of Thursday morning gives
the following account of the affair:
NJ II. Fitzpatrick & Co., the con
tractors, have the work for cutting
Fourth street through the rcck be-
tween Sixth and Seventh avenues,
west. At I o'clock the force of 100
men began their days labor, all bright
aud hopeful, between twenty and
thirty of them taking positions in the
cut on the east side. Three men of
this smaller force mounted to the top
Of the rock, twenty-five feet above
their fellows, and began to work drill
ing a hole a yard and a half from the
edge in the northeast conner Two Of
them swung the heavy slcdgcs and the
other turned the drill. They were
Alfred Dawson, Maenus Dawson. his
brother AMI August Anderson. They
had worked bul a few minutes, when
suddenly q
TERRIFIC NOISE MAS HEARD
pieces os hard trap rock flew in every
direction and the air was rent with
cries OF agony No one was expecting
it; no one was prepared for it. 1t is
not Il usual thing to hear a blast mt
thot early hour, and the people in the
yicinity knew the dynamite bad expIod
accidentally. Men, women and child
rem were seen Oh the spot. The force
Of the explosion was 80 great that some
of the men were hurled several feet.
Many Of them were SO stunned by the
blows of the cruel miS>als that they
not aware Of what had happened for Il
long time after they were picked up.
Some were buried beneath the rock
and dirt, and one poor fellow, y. Mat
son
HAD BOTH LEGS PINNED FAST.
beneath huge boulder weighing sew
eral hundred pounds. us soon as those
who had received only slight injuries
had recovered from their dazed state,
they set to work to help their less
lucky comrades. Among the former
were the three men vino had been
working the drill in the corner above
Their happy escape is due to the fact
that the explosive has tendency to
spread out il the directions where the
confinement is greatest. thus precipi-
tating to those below who were blast
ing and taking away the rock.
Eight men were taken 10 the hos
pital and the teams were in front OF
the door before Matron Scott knew
what had happened. They were plac-
Ell in the large ward to the left of the
hall on the first floor; in
less than no time physicians began to
arrive and offered their services.
Everything was done that could be to
relieve their suffering. The hospital
was in first class condition for receiv-
ing the injured men and everything
was done with harmony and dispatch.
\ large crowd assembled in front of
the building, and all day long eager
inquiries were made as to the chances
of the men. One by one they died
Grytdall, Erickson, Eklund aud A.
Aiattson; the physicians claim death
was not due to their wounds, but was
the result of the terrible shock sus-
tanned by their nervous systems. In
the middle OF the day Jacob Nells
WAS considered well enough to be re-
moved to his boarding house, $40 st.
CroiX avenue, while shortly after
Jacob Tolonen was taken away and
cared for b. friends.
At P. NJ. ONLY TWO WERE LEFT
in the hospital, the dead having been
given to the undertakes. These were
| Leander Anderson and Erie Mattson
Both were visited by a reporter and
both were cheerfui-Mattson parti-
cularly 50, though suffering from q
fracture of the leg. lie said to the
scribe: That good stone" pointing
to where it had fallen on him. ''IIow's
that?" why it no kill me" Such
was the philosophical way the poor
boy had Of making the best of every
thing