Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-20
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,,.RyIC EXPLOSION OCCURS ON TEE RAIL
ROAD NEAR TARRYTOwN,
- r,s,ssn Persons and Wounding as Many
III flying Spark Touches of the Artf-
gar,tqaska-Eousss Shaken fer Miles
,-,sBs-Scsne Of the Disaster.

,-,gBs-Scsne Of the Disaster.
~..evrowN, \. y, May 19.-There
horrible accident near here to-
,y which the loss of life is eSti-
o-' between sixteen and twenty
s.t.iniured as many more. An en-
--- I'D flat ear were conveying load
r..r,ns and twenty-four cases Of
,.n.f.e. containing fifty pounds. A
r,ns lay in front Of the truck Of
.a,.re which was ignited by d
-,-k The moving train famed the
..ssod the dynamite exploded.
william Brannigan, engineer OF the
tspnened to be $50 yards from
...,i, AZ the time and says;
CD, ..Tsar Stl the coil Of rope set fire TO the
s..- package Of dynamite one ot the
saw iJ aud Sprarg OF the
md was killed by the wheels.
.-- ,,v- moment there was rumOllng
and a dense cloud of smoke aud
s,,g mass shot up into the air. The
b.f inst about come TO stop and
.--, were saved by jumping before
...,.'1sion. The men were blown IN
..-.rs directions. and several are sup
.-i-0 have been blown TAR out into
..s-rer The first man on the scene
.-,s- -be explosion says he counted SIX
,-., dead on the track and sixteen
wounded. He says twenty men had
been b.owuiuto the Hudson river most
oi them being Italians.
The engineer OF the train was cut on
,be head. and Fireman Pail was also
bsiy injured. besides having four ribs
bros.n. John smith was killed. John
Conners. conductor, was badly inJured'
Jimmie Morrison, a boy employed In
carving powder, was killed; John Me
Csrthv. a time-6eeper. was also killed.
Tine others killed were all Italians.
To is now said eighteen in all were
killed. The Italians names are not
known. as they are known only by num-
ters. Twenty-Five men are injured,
among them being several Americans.
Two bodies have been taken out of the
r.v,r. Nobody knows how many more
r.rain there. The two Italians who
were not killed by the explosion were 50
t.l'v frightened that they rau TO the
yerwall and Jumped in. They have
uo, been seen since.
The waiting room OF the beautiful
uev railroad station in Tarryt0wn was
. turned n,o d temporary hospital where
al. the surgeons who could be gathered
operated 0u the sufferers. The
wounded men We're stretched upon the
waiting room floor. and there one Of
4 them. an Italian, died. The floor after
tb, removal cooked ike the floor of an
4obaior The blood lay all about in
great c.otS and pools
As Co Che number of men on the train
accounts differ. Some sav there were
l The lowest estimate place the mum
Der 40 over i0 DiSSt0n, the boss, thinks
there were over 30, aud as q matter Of
iac, ,le number of those blown either
90 atom, OF into the river is 20 "a certain
eN,el, q matter of speculation. The
train w., torn 20 atoms, the railway
tracks tipped from their bed and a great
lo.e many feet deep dug out of tue
rar,b, totally blocking traffic on the
railway for many hours. Up ia Tarry-
,oFl, over across the river in Nyack,
and a.l up and down the stream il was
terrific The ground trembied As though
.-om au earthquake. the walls of several
Iary,own houses were shaken and
cracked. and i'm the Tarrytown streets
ile window glass fell in showers
tae sidewalk. Even over i'm
Ng-cS heavy paueS of glass were
smashed. The beautiful houses which
Doc ,ae bank for mile cr more on each
>troi the scene of the accident all
suffered more or less. The hillside
"'a Us heavy foliage was Scorched and
.@eaeled and here and there huge
.oo> o., trees were wrenched off as
enough by thunderbOlt. Ia Tdrrytown
scores Of cocks stopped, and it is IN
,1.' say that almost the exact hour OF
'Ae explosion, 11:2O, Is fixed.
The list of the dead is now Is. of
'lr>e I3 are accounted for, and the re-
'-.Liu- . are IN the rlVCr. Gangs OF
Me1 .u boats are dragging the river for
,le>e, bUt the tide is running 50 strong
That there is little chance of recover
ls ,hem to-day at least.
Three az the Italians died i'm the Tar
y,own hospital after being removed
.um the wreck. Ten bodies were
picked up along the track, while five
Nere taken out of the water. About
three minutes before the explosion the
chicago Limited Express, having or
oaard many passengers, passed this point.
The force of the explosion was heard fOl
niles mp and down the river, also across
'1e river at Nyack, where building;
"ere shaken aud many windows broken.
-a larrytowG many high buildings were
S-4Neu. windows broken and plaStering
shocked down. The scene OF the acci-
ue1l Is one of the beautiful points on
,ae bank of the Hudson, and near the
houses Of Richard Hoe, the printing
press inventor, Elliott Shepherd, Mr..
Ho'Saieller, and other prominent peo-