The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-01
HURT AT A TAMMANY RALLY.
4 MORTaE BLOTs UP IN THE STREET
INJURING THREE PERSONS.
Speaker Sulser wns just BeGinninr n
Speech When the Explosion Occurred
$500 Subscribed for the IpJurrd Man.

Speaker Su,zer WINS Just BeGinninr a
Speech when the Explosion Occurred
$500 Subscribed for the InIurrd Man.
Tammany Halls big ratification meeting In
the Tenth district last night was accompanied
by an accident that resulted in the breaking
OF one mans leg. the knocking down OF his
wife, the splitting omen Of n boys head. and
the smashing In OF the doors OF the house
at 308 East Fourteenth street. The meeting
was held at district headquarters. on tho
southeast corner Of Fourteenth street
and second avenue and like every Tam
many Hall meeting in the Tenth 1t was
attended by crowd that blocked both the
street and the avenue. A stand for the speakers
had been erected on tho Second avenue side Of
the house. 1t was brilliantly lighted. and the
biggest part OF the crowd gathered there. The
Fourteenth street side was dark. and while the
oratorical fireworks were going OF at the
stand the other kind Of fireworks were sent or
hore. John Reilly had arranged big display
OF both kinds.
John Dolan n member OF the General Com
mittee OF the Tenth district and an employee
of the Standard Fireworks Company. was firing
bombs from an iron mortar. The people who
were watching the display crowded around
dangerously near jas. Donovan. n pressman.
who lives ut 1874 East Twentieth street, and his
wife were on the inside Of the circle that sur
rounded the mortar Thomas Reilly. 10 years
old. who lives at A. East Sixteenth street. was
Assistant District Attorney John F. Mc1n-
tyre. who was tho first speaker at the meet
ing. had just finished talking around the
corner and Speaker SulZer was beginning.
when Doan damned n flower pot bomb down
The bomb did lot leave the mortar. but blew
the mortar to pieces. Donovan and his wife
and the boy Reil ly fell in their tracks. There
was sound OF smashing wood and
glass across the street for n moment or
two There was a rush to get away, and
the Donovans and the boy were left lying
where they had fallen. There were n dozen or
more policemen at the meeting, and they got
back their senses first and pushed their way
through the crowd. Donovan was groaning
and was making vain efforts to get up. His
wife was unconscious The boy Reilly looked
as IL the whole top OF his bead had been
blown of.
policeman picked him up and carried him
into the club house and up stairs. Donovan
and his wife were carried into the house next
door. and physicians and an ambulance were
sent for.
The doctors found that Donovan's right leg
had been torn open on the side and that his
thigh hone was broken. The woman remained
nnc .n1; and # was thought che was IN
New York Hospital The boy. It was found
was not so severely injured. Jagged piece OF
the iron mortar had glanced along his face and
head and had torn tho skin. and in one spot
had made n severe cut 1t was sewed up and
he was sent home.
Tho piece of mortar that smashed the door
Of the house Mt 3OS weighed eight pounds
Fortunately It flew over the heads of the crowd
and nobody was injured by 1t.
The police arrested Dolan. The meeting
was continued despite the accident. and none
OF the spea kers referred to it. but after it was
ganization got together and voted to subscribe
donovan and his wife