The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-12-31
liAhY KILLED AND INJURED.
Fearful Dynamite Explosion il
Long Island City.
Three Lose Their Lives and Twenty Peo
pie Hurt...Buldings Take Fire and
Add to the Horror Of the
Scene.

LoNG ISLAND CITY, Dec. 2s.-At !,
o'clock this morning there was dyna
mite explosion in the yards of the New
York and Long Island Tunnel com
pany, on Fourth street, between Yer
non and Jackson avenues, this city. S,
far as learned three persons were hillet
outright and score of persons injured
The names of the killed are:
MARY GRADEN, aged 10, Long Islant
City.
MRS. ROCHO, Long Island City.
HENRY O'BRIEN, aged SO, clerk, Lons
Island City.
The injured are:
WILLIAM kRErp, Greenpoint.
JosEPH N. PALMER, Williamsburg.
Minnie DAvR n. aged 20.
JOHN w. DavHgN, a reporter.
Mr. MAHER
JOHN MAHER.
john HOPKINS. internally injured auG
horribly cut abou: the head and body \
EpwAHD j. DELANEY, cut about head ant
body, fatally burned
MARY CRANE, cook, terribly burned
will probably die
Unknown Italian, buried in tunnel, viii
die
Mrs HENRY, postotfice employe, badly
injured
Miss MARY RYAN, postottice employee
severely cut.
The Davrcns and Mahers belonged il
Long Island City. They We're injured
about the head by falling timbers an6
broken glass. The explosion set fire k
the buildings adjoining the tunno'
companys yard and shattered every
pane of glass in the buildings for block.
around The entire fire department o.
the city was quickly on the scene, bu,
SO soon did the flames burst out that i,
is not certain whether all the resident.
of the adjoining tenemcnts escaped OF
are buried in the debris. Those in the
vicinity at the time of the ex
plosion say that the shock which fol.
lowed was like III, earthquake The
tcnements, g to ~, Jackson, were
shattered with the stores and offices
below. The postofficc was in No. 27.
The mails are buried beneath tons OF
ruins and they are certain to be ruined
by water 1T not consumed by the
flames. When the explosion occurred
the letter cases We're knocked into
strips and the clerks were hurled head.
long into the debris. A wave of flame
seemed to sweep through the lowef
part OF the demolished tencmants i'm.
mediately after the crash. Some of the
stunned and bleeding tenants man
ngcd to crawl 10 the lower windows
and make their escape in that way.
The three people killed were
all in their homes which were contigu.
ous to the scene of the explosion.
O'Brien. one of the killed, had his
throat cut from car to car and his face
was badly mutilatcd by flying glass.
oBrien was lying on sofa when the
explosion took place. A pane OF glass
was smashed directly over his head and
large piece acted as u guillotine.
Some of the residents of the tenements
had to be carried out by the fremen.
Many of them We're too severely injured
to help themselves to escape while
others We're too frightened to move.
AT st. Johns hospital six victims of the
explosion were received All were
badly injured.
The yards of the New York and Long
Island tunnel, of which William Stein.
way is president, are bounded by Jack.
son and Vernon avenues. Tenement
houses of brick and frame and storea
line both of these thoroughfares. The
company is building tunnel between
this city ana the New York Central
depot. A great deal of dynamite is
used in blasting. Last night the dy.
Mantle f,,oze The men needed some
and placed three barrels of cartridges
just back of the tcnelncnts to be thawed
out. Then they built bonfire beside
the cartridges. The fire burned nearer
to the dynamite than was intended and
the result was the disastrous explosion.
All of the killed received fractured
skulls and were horribly cut by glass.
The injured We're all badly cut by glass
from the broken windows. 1t is said
now that the postmaster saved all the
valuable letters that were in the post
office when the explosion occurred.
Directly opposite the scene of the ex.
plosion were ~ row of tenements
occupied by fifteen families.
Every apartment was wrecked and the
debris caught fire from the overturned
stoves The scene following the ex.
plosion was terrible. Men, women and
children only partially dressed rushed
wildly into the street screaming.
The district where the explosion oe.
Cured is the most thickly inhabited
section OF the city. Gray's refrigerator
factory on Fourth street, opposite the
scene Of the explosion was almost com.
plctely wrecked. A number of people
We're at work in the building at the
time, but how many of them were in
ju,,ed is not known
AT II o'clock the fire was still raging
in the ruins. The fire department
seems totally inadequate to cope With