The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-12-29
FIVE MET THEIR DEATH
Result of Long Island City's
Dynamite Explosion.
TwENTY-rHREs OTHERS INJURED.

Two of the Latter hay Dis-Ns One
KRows Exactly How the E1plosioH DC.
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ity Wreokod- HorrOr IRtsnsihsd by
Fire-Twenty Families HsnsIsss.
LoNa ISLAND CITY, Dec 2s-The ex-
ploson yesterday was very disastrous in
its consequences. Five persons are dead,
two are fatally hurt, and 30 others are
more or less seriously wounded. While
the damage to property in the vicinity is
not SO great as at FIRST reported it will
amount to many thousand dollars.
The explosion shook the length and
breadth Of the city, causing the most in
tense excitement, which continues, though
in gutter, but sadder manner to-day.
The following is complete list of the
killed and wounded as far as can be as
certained up to II a. m. this morning:
DEAD.
MARY GRApEN, aged 2l, waitress
HENRY O'BRIEN, grocer's CLERK, aged 33
Mrs. Rocco, the wife of Peter Rocco,
barber
JOHN HOPKINS, aged %, proprietor of a
restaurant.
NICOLA LoDANo, brother of Mrs. Rocco
WOUNDED.
Mrs Julia Henry, cut in the throat,
head and hands by glass and received
severe shock
Peter McEntee, foreman on the tunnel
work, head, legs s0d arms terribly cut and
several bones broken.
Mrs. Mary Maher, cut about head and
arms.
Daniel Maher, cut about head and body
and lost left eye.
Mary Creighton lost an eye and badly
cut about the head and body; will proba-
bly, die.
Edward Delaney, skull fractued, both
eyes injured; will die.
Petro Rocco cut about head and body.
Joseph Way, back punctured.
Minnie DaYren, serious injuries to head
and body.
John Davren, badly cut about head and
face.
John W. Davren, cut about head and
hands.
Matilda Ryan, cut about head
John Purcell, seriously injured by fall
ing timbers.
William Johnson, cuts and bruises on
head and body.
James Murphy, cuts on head.
Mrs. Mary Rogers and son John Rogers.
Both badly cut about head.
Max Hayes, severely cut on back Of
head.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank wildey, cuts on
head.
Mrs. Kate O'Brien, face and hands bad
ly cut.
William Krepp, head cut.
John Palmer, head and hands cut.
Mrs. Stein and daughter, three years
old. Both severely cut and child lost one
eye.
Alderman James Comisky, head cut
The scene of the explosion is in the
most thickly settled portion of Hunters
Point Seventeen families occupied the
buildings in the vicinity. The tunnel
oompany's shaft is about 20 feet long by
IL feet wide.
No one has yet been found who can tell
exactly how the explosion occurred but
the following facts have been learned.
Some fifty cartridges of powder had
been brought from the storage house on
the meadows to be prepared for sending
down to the drillers working in the head
ing, which is being blasted out under
Fourth street at depth Of 50 feet.
AS the explosive was frozen, Foreman
McEntee placed the cartridges in the
steamchests to thaw them out. They had
been there about 10 minutes when the
explosion occurred.
The effect of the explosion on the
| houses was terrible. Every window sash
in the rear was ripped out and the glass
driven, pieces OF all sizes, through the
rooms, ana those in the front were blown
! out.
No uyreclr was avar mora connIata A
strip of bhe rear brick WALL about ten
feet wide, extending from basement to
| roof, fell in with terrible crash.
Amid the confusion could be heard the
| cries of the wounded and the means of
the dying
Mrs. Petro Rocco was the first victim
whose body was found.
Then the body of Mary Graden, the
waitress, was found on the floor of the
restaurant kitchen and near her were the
proprietor, John Hopkins, and his assis-
tanG, Edward Delaney.
Both the latter were unconscious, their
faces being terribly muJilatod.
On the floor of the barber's shop lay the
body OF man who was too much dishg-
ured to be recognizable at the time The
man WAS still alive He was afterwards
identified as Nicola LodRno, Mrs. Rocco's
brother.
The ambulance OF st. Johns Hospital
and corps Of doctors arrived simultane-
suEly and the wounded were quickly re-
moved 10 the hospital. Then the dead
and dying were taken to stores near by.
The last victim taken out was Henry
o Brien, the young grocer, who was car
riod 70 the station house, where he died a
few minutes after reaching there.
While all this was going on tho horror
Of the occasion was intensified by the
bursting out Of flames on the third
floor of one of the apartment buildings.
Tho flames spread rapidly and before the
tiremen got them under control, nearly
the whole row of buildings were gutted
The damage was not confined to the
fAts. For half a mile in every direction
tha uViudavw nanaa Iarn,a s,,,n l.