The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1891-05-28
LIKE WAR
Are Scenes of Death at
Tarryt0wn.
The Dead and Wounded
Victims
Suffer the Most Horrible
MutilatiOn.
Legs and Arms Torn from
Bodies,
And Men Lose the Look of
Humanity.
At Least Twenty Were
Killed.
THE MOST HORRIBLE DYNAMITE
TRAGEDY In HISTORY.
sickening Details Of the Awful Affair
In Historic Tarrytown-Twelve
Hundred Pounds Of Dynamite
Explode, and Terror and
OesOlatiOn Follow.
THE MOST HORRIBLE DYNAMITE
TRAGEDY In HISTORY.

TARRYTowN, N. Y. May 21.-At 1880
.. m. work train on the Hudson River
railroad WAS blown TO atoms. one mile
and Q half below Tarrytown BY an ex-
plosion Of dynamite In transportation
for blasting purposes In track construc-
tion Thsre were probably thirty-three
mon, including italian Isborers and train
men, on board. OF those eighteen were
instantly killed and fifteen terribly torn
and wounded Many Of the dead were
blown into the river, and i've bodies still
remain unrecovsred.
The train was torn 10 atoms. the rail.
road tracks ripped from their bed, and .
great hole many feet deep dug out Of the
earth, totally blocking traffic on the
railroad for many houra The train was
In charge of Conductor Connors. and the
gang Of men WAS under Jerome Disston
- boss. The dynamite was oil stored
on the hrst four fst cars composing
the train. It consisted of twsnty.fouF
cases, and each case contained fifty
pounds, making grand total Of 1,200
pounds Of the terrible explosive. The
force Of the explosion WAS terrific. The
ground trenbled - though from IN
earthquake; the walls of several Tarry.
town houses we're shaken ard cracked,
and in the Tsrytown streets the window
glass fell In showers to tho sidewalk. In
Tarrysown scores Of clocks stopped. and
It Ii In this way that 1lmost the exact
hour Of the explosion. 11:20. 10 dxed. 4
spark from passing engine ID believed
10 have caused the explosion. The train
WAS utterly demolished and eye Wit.
nesses say tho cir wss filed with splin-
ters and debris, while the bodies Of the
luckless train crew were hurled, some Of
them torn limb from limb. in every d.
rection.
A terrible sight presented itself to
those who hurried to the sceno Of the
awful accident The ground - far %
could be seen WAS covered with debris.
The track WAS torn up for space OF siI.
hundred feet and tho rails were bent In.
to all kinds of shapes. Dead faces and
mutilated bodies looked up from all di.
rectiona The engine WAS blown out o!
all semblance of an engine and the tender
was blown half way into the river. The
fat cars were blown into particles.
Then began tho awful work Of bringing
In the dead and wounded. Men were
found dead hundred yards away from
the track. while others were found In
the excavations made by the deadly
explosive. The wounded were suf'
fering from most horrible mutil.
atoms, In many instances arms
and legs being torn Oh, hands bruised
and bodies bleeding. The scene 70
minded old soldiers OF scanes After
bloody battle during the civil war. The
dead and injured were removed to Tarry-
town depot, where the injuries OF the
wounded were looked after By score OF
physicians who had been hurriedly sum.
moned from all directiona
The injured were afterwards taken to
different hospitals, five Of the most Sc.
verely injured being taken to Bellevue
hospital in New York. The dead were
also conveyed TO the depot and later to
Vanderbilt's morgue In Tarrytown. Ten
Of those killed were picked up along tn.
track. while five were taken from the
river, Three of the injured conveyed t.
tho depot died shortly after reaching
there. It's believed that there are still
two bodies in the river, aud this
would bring the total number OF
killed up to twenty. From later reports
received from the scene of the accident It
would seem that instead Of thirty-three
men being on board the ill-fated train,
the number was nearer fifty.
The following is . partial list Of the
dead and Wounded, whose dead or
mapRled bodies have been recovered.
The names of the Italians cannot be as
cert.ined. as they were only known by
numbers: The killed: John Mccarthy,