Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-09-29
D Y N A MI 7 {!
Explosion in Gen.
ta| Ave. Sewer.
oNE NAN KILLED,
Two Others Are Badly H.
jured.
INQUEST WILL BE HELD.
Superintendent of the Work Can Give
No Explanation.
INQUEST WILL BE HELD.
superintendent Of the Work Can Give
No Explanation.

III
have watched the operations at the Cen
tral avenue sewer occurred yesterday af-
ternoon at about 80 o'clock.
1t was an explosion that shook the
earth for a long distance around and by
which one workmen lost his life, another
was badly injured ana two more nearly
| asphyxiated by the fumes OF the exploded
dynamite.
The accident occurred at the shaft about
200 feet east Of Broadway and at the deep.
est point.
Here the tunnel is about sixty feet be-
low the surface. The ground is more than
forty feet higher than 1t ia at the lower
shaft near Fountain street.
Dynamite cartridges are used In blast
ing, and at the time above mentioned the
workmen at this shaft, Peter McIntyr,
and John Rollins, Andrew Ware and
Charles Harris, colored, had completed
drilling and were ready for the explosive
The tunnel is about eight feet high anc
1t is reached by means OF the bucket used
In hoisting the dirt from the tunnel.
Foreman Oscar Lancaster got the dyna
mite cartridges and went down the shaft
In the bucket and gave the dangerous
stuffto Henry Jones, who was in charge
In the tunnel.
Lancaster came up in the bucket and
was followed soon after by Jones who
gave the dynamite to the workmen, they
being used to handling IL.
Jones had no more that reached tn,
surface when there was terrible explo.
sion.
Lancaster and Jones knew at once thai
something wrong had happened for II tn,
the dynamite was exploded properly ther,
would not have been such a concussion.
With terrible fear for the fate OF he
men they descended the shaft.
They well o. knew the action o'
the gas arising from an exploded dyn.
amite cartridge on the system and wher
they were going down the shaft to tn,
workmen's rescue they did not know bu,
that they would be asphyxiated and never
reach the surface.
They took all the chanches and wher
they reached the tunnel they discerned q
horrible sight through the smoke. Tn,
four men were lying in different positions
bleeding and gasping, and all apparently
dying.
The men were hoisted to the surfac
and by this time large crowd had gath
cred. The ambulance was sent for anC
two Of the men were taken to the station
in 1t and the olher two In Wigh;man'
delivery wagon.
Medical aid wasisummoned and docto or
Kelhher, Lane and Brooks responded.
IL was seen that Andrew Ware was II
a dangerous condition as his skull wa
fractured, his left arm torn of at the el'
bow and he was terribly cut and burned
All that was possible was done for hin
and then he was put In the ambulanc
and started for the hospital.
He died on the way, never having re
| gained conciousness.
In the meantime, the physicians wsr
working on the other victims.
All we're unconscious and some heroi
measures were adopted to revive them
Mcintyre was the most seriously In
jured as a coil OF wire used In connecting
the battery with the dynamite mad beef
blown into his left hip.
II made horrible wound from whicl
he suffered intense pain after recovering
| his senses.
Charles Harris suffered the most from
gas and wass long time in cominI
around, He received several cuts on tn,
back OF he head.
John Rollins was the luckiest OF tn
quartette, not being injured at all anc
soon recovering from the gas.
The men were placed in beds in tn
woman's side OF the station and Office
Sweet watched them during the night.
They were not told OF Wares death
His body was brought hack to the station
and placed In the morgue. He was 2
years OF age and his home was at Lynch
burg, Va. He has brother at Niayarl
Fails, TO whom a telegram was sent.
Mcintyre, who is by no means out o
danger. boarded at 492 Mil street and tn
three colored men, Rollins, Ware an'
Harris, boarded at 80 Branch street. Tb
men work for the National Construct ior
Company Of Boston and go wherever the.
have a job. Ware had been with then
since May.
Several stitches were necessary TO clos
i the wound I'm McIntvre's hin