New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-09
SHATTERED BY DYNAMITE
An UNKNOWN VILLAINS WORK.
MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A BIG
MALT HOUSE.
WINDOWS BROKEN IN ALL DIRECrIoNs-ToRrU
NATELY NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY HURT-sUF.
rERING IN EEIGHBoRNG TENE
MENT HoUsES-wHAT COULD
THE MOTIVE BET


malt-house, but 1t broke hundreds Of window
panes in other buildings and scared nearly as
many persons half out of their wits. few
women and children were cut by dying fragments
OF glass, but nobody was hurt seriously.
Mr. Stevenson's malt-house and brewery occupy
all the ground on the west side Of Tenth-ave, be-
tween Thirty-ninth and Fortleth sts., for
distance Of nearly 200 feet toward Eleventh-ave.
They are substantial brick buildings as high as
an ordinary ive-story tenement house. Some OF
the one hundred employees in the building live
In the big double tenement-house Nos sol and
503 West Fortieth-st, directly opposite the
malt house. niece Of Mr.. Stevenson owns the
tenementhouse and it shelters thirty families
Every window of the house was blown in by the
explosion Mrs Rosa Murphy, the wife of
brewery hand, and Mrs Sarah Barrett wife of
truck driver, were looking out of the front
windows Of the house when the windows were
shattered and both were cut slightly by frag-
ments of glass. Neither saw any fash, although
the dynamite bomb exploded on the opposite
side Of the street.
PEOPLE THROWN DOWN IN THE STREETS.
The report of the explosion was short and sharp,
yet loud enough to be heard many blocks away.
All the buildings in the neighborhood were shaken
violently for an instant Many people in the
streets were thrown down or staggered by the
shock. From the big house opposite the malt
house and from score Of tenemcnthouses in Tenth
ave. the frightened inmates rushed panie-stricken,
and for several minutes scenes OF great excitement
were witnessed. For time it was believed that
many lives had been lost. and nobody knew the
cause of the trouble or the extent of the damage.
policeman rang the fre-alarm box at the matt
house corner and several companies Of 6remen
rushed into the crowd of frightened people Fore
man Brown. Of Engine No. 2, heard that anumber
Of persons had been hurt or killed. and he sent
out call for three ambulances. Before the
umbulances arrived Captain Murphy and a squad
Of police from the Thirty -seventh-st station ran
10 the place and began TO clear the crowd away
IL was soon found that nobody had been
hurt seriously, and that there was no fire, so
the engines and tho ambulances went away.
Battalon-Chief Gicquel Of the Fire Department
and Police Captain Murphy set 10 work TO solve
the mystery Of the explosion. After making
survey Of the damage 10 windows, Chief Gicquel
said il was caused by an explosion of dynamite
In front Of the malthouse. lie had experimental
with the stuff he said, when General Shaler
started school for sappers and miners in the
Fire Department years ago, and in trying to
blow down the wall Of an old house in Ninth-st
tho hremen wrecked all the windows in houses
fronsing the wall
ErTEcfs OF THE EXPLOSION:
The wall OF the malt-house did NOT appear to
be damaged AZ first sight, but careful exmina-
tion disclosed break in the stone foundation at
the bottom of narrow area, about six fesb
below the level OF the sidewalk Chief Gicquel
Captain Murphy and several reporters went into
~. Ia and n hOl
in the foundation wall about four feet in diameter
on the inside but tapering to hand-breadth on
the outside. The wall was about two feet in thick
ness at that point and the stones had been broken
badly in being pushed out Of place The dis
plsoement WAS like that which would have
been produced by sharp blow from hammer
weighing several tons.
THAT Is inst the way dynamite acts when 10
explodes against a wall in the free ar sara
Chief Gicauel Tho bomb spent most of It's
force and did the most damage outside. II IL
had exploded inside the wall 1t would have
knocked the building 10 pieces
The police made careful search in the area
but could find no trace of the bomb. Captain
Murphy wondered how the miscreant who placed
the bomb could have discharged it in such q
public place in daylight without being seen by
ing INQUIRIES, but they could not find anybody
who had noticed any suspicious dolngs'
RoycoTr AGAINST THE BREwERYI
There had been boycott on Mr.. Stevenson's
brewery. the captain said, and the police had
driven awnv men who were distributing the
bovcottinp circulars In the neighbOrhood, but
nothing had been heard of the trouble in several
weelrs and IL was understood that the war against
looked
., ,bo nIoce whore the dynamite bomb exploded
ara tried "a determine how il was placed there
Some thought that glass Domo nau DeeR uhroWn
into the nialt-house area from the ROOF Oh the
big tenemcnt-houSe across '1J hat y Somh With
a Tim. fIse had been dropped into the area from
the sidewalk In the latter case tle rascal N VINO
dropped the bomb couiu hove honeo TatSTa hn9ora
far away from the m"iVnouSe Oe'oie
the explosion occurred -, =, ,ho Luo,,o...
Mr. Stevenson, the proprietor OF .ne brewery
said 10 reporters: have no clew 70 ine PcrPe-
traitor of this outrage, but am thanklul thag no
hod,, ,yas hurt seriously by the explosion Last
year the association Of brewers 10 WnIgh Delong
made n vote 10 keep the wages Oh employes up 10
the same standard this year. 40 was oo s'S %
IN anv brewer IN the association was accused OF
cutti1g down wages he could DC Lred ior the
ALLEGED offence by three OF ms Ielow 9rewers' brewers
In October last was accused Py 'ons a tpSd M
co,nmittee of brewers on the charge OF railing TO
nav the standard wages Inc OIai I'LL N~InuicaOeu ~
me- and the charge was dsmlsseu SUM sh men @
bse,erv bSsp must he boycotted could not find out
who responsible for t9s %sS nsSTP' Il my 70 empGe RI5S
uy or, con, naint or quit work on account Of
iIs boycott and .nnosanee SaIl9e'' oe%sed wSs
, NOV nyoois ogo and I would have thought
nothing nothing more about It but for this icOwSrdy
attempt TO destroy property r shan ha not not oe
Scared bv dynamite either. Ihs mas peen n
pretty pretty tough part Of the city ever since have
been doing business here
POOR PEOPLE SUFFER FROM THE COLD
Captain Murphy and his detectives were busy
searching for clews TO the perpetrator OF the
outrage last night, and Inspector Byrnes pro"soIy
The immediate result of the explosion was much
suffering among the inmates OF tenement,ho!1,sses
In Foriethsr aud in Tenth-aye loo, laesnSS acrs IS
were busy hanging bed-quilts ana new ~ cod ~
front of broken windows 10 keep, Out tne golu,
but many Of the rooms were uninhabltaGiite even Yen
then In the tenemeDthouscs oPpos,on and
]. 81 "a