Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-03
From ALI Quarters.
KILLED IN THEIR TRACKS.
Fatal Boiler Explosion in
New York City.
SERIOUS CRISIS WILL FOLLOW.
Views of a Berlin Banker
on the Situation.
MASCOT Defeated BY DlREeTUM.
Thousands Witness the
Race at Fleetwood.
MASCOT Defeated BY DlREe1UM.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF MANY.

HORRIBLE DEATH OF MANY.
A Boiler Exploded Scattering Death
and wounds In Its Path-0ne Man
Crushed to Death ms He Stood on the
Sidewalk-A Mighty Roar Was Fol-
lowed by Terrible FataIities-NIen
Staggered About With Fatal
Wounds.
NEW YORK, Nov. "A boiler in the
stables of the Dry Dock, East Broadway and
Battery Surface Railroad company, at
Fourteenth street and Avenue B, exploded
at o'clock to day and tore the front out
of the building, causing death and destruc-
ton. The section of the building in which
the boiler was located collapsed The
boiler few across the street and struck the
| double tenement, No. 534 East Fourteenth
| street, just below the first story. The side
| of the building was crushed in. Three men
were instantly killed and nearly score
| were injured, some of whom have since
| died.
The building in which the explosion &C.
| CURED runs along the north side of East
Fourteenth street, between Avenues A and
| B. At the Avenue B corner 1t is four sto-
ries high, and about 100 feet further up
breaks off and becomes a three-story struc-
ture. The engine and boiler were situated
| just where the three-story section began.
The explosion came with the quickness of
thought and probsbly no one will ever
passing along Fourteenth street at the
time. One horse car with solitary pRE-
senger stood in front of the building.
There was mighty roar, crashing of
| falling brick and broken timber. Like a
shot the boiler was lifted out of the stable
and few across the street. 1t struck the
tenement directly opposite with shock
that shook the whole block. Windows
were smashed everywhere in the vicinity.
Screams from the score of wounded rang
out wildly. Women with children in their
| arms rushed in frantic panic to the street
and cloud of dust and pieces of building
| materials shot high into the air. 1t was
not until minutes had gone by before
anyone could realize what had happened.
Fireman John J. Henry of engine company
No. was passing up the street block
away. The shock lifted him from his
feet. He turned and seeing what had hap
pened, sent out an alarm.
Before the engines came second alarm
was sounded, and then came hurry calls for
smbulances by the dozen.
Men staggering with wounds that in
some cases were fatal ran through the
street.
There were three who never moved. They
had met instant death.
Thomas Hsssan was standing in front OF
the railing of No. 534, just across from the
stables A corner of the boiler struck him
and he never breathed again.
Patrick Quinn was in the rear of the
stable. A piece of flying tube struck him
on the head and crushed it in. He nevar
moved from where he had fallen.
nE-IE -
street. A piece of stone weighing fifty
pounds struck him and killed him instant
ly.
The two little Gallagher children were
playing in the street in front of their own
house, No. $40. Fragments of brick struck
them and they fell bleeding from q dozen
wounds.
No. 534 is a double tenement. On the
ground floor, east side, John Ruhl has
| liquor store, and on the west side of the
| hallway John Peters has a little grocery.
The end of the boiler struck the upper
| corner of the liquor store. Ruhrs bar was
| demolished. The lower section of the
building was carried away and with 1t fell
the whole front of the second story. Ruhrs
family lived there, but fortunately not one
of its members was in the house at the
time. Ruhl was standing at the rear end
| of his bar, away from the window, when
the crash came. A piece of timber struck
him in the back aud knocked him down.
He was not seriously injured.
Grocer Peters was also in his store at
him on the left leg, carrying away some of
the flesh.
At No. 536 there Ia a Chinese laundry.
The windows here were crushed in and the
interior of the laundry was demolished.
Next door William Dart has barber
shop. Dart was shaving customer at the
time and was knocked down by the shock.
The customer was thrown from the chair
and ran through the street almost smoth-
cred In dust and lather.
Driver Sheehan of the horse car that
stood directly In front of the stables, was
struck by large rock. He had his ear
torn off and his skull fractured. He was
taken to Bellevue hospital where he is re-
ported as dying.
Two car horses stood in front of the
building and were killed. The side of the
car which remained in the street WAS de-
molished. The lone passenger in 1t ex-
capped uninjured.
Fifteen minutes after the explosion 6
hundred fremen and dozen ambulance
surgeons were on the scene. The fremen
found no fame to fight, but the surgeons
had their hands full. They went rushin {
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were lying at all points. Three of the
unfortunstes did not need their attention
The others had their wounds bound NJ
and the ambulances took them away to thu
hospitals.
Thomas Lowell, forty-nine years old
was standing in front of the stables. Thu
debris showered about BIN and he wa
dragged out with his skull fractured anc
his chest crushed In. He was dying wheI
} | sent to Bellevue. Near him at the time O
the explosion was William Eagsn, an en-
ploye of the company. The same lot o
brick and timber struck him and his in
juries were similar to those of Lowell
| He, too, was taken to Bellevue and tn
surgeons say that he cannot recover.
The fremen went to work on the ruin
like trojans. The men employed in tn
r company's Offices and the men of the vicin
ity volunteered their aid, and soon tn
ruins of the stable were dotted with men
At first 1t was believed that the two me-
who ran the engine, Armstrong and Roya
were in there. An hour later It was foun
t that one of the unconscious men taken t
!, Bellevue with his head crushed was Roya
b He died there half an hour after being lai
J.. in the ward. He never regsined conscious
n ness.
IT'S NOW COLLECTOR BYxBEE
by the President and Confirmed b