Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-01-07
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
Glass in Surrounding Buildings Foo
Blocks Away Shattered.
Several Mansled Corpses With Many
Bruised and Bleeding Living Bodies
Taken Out-The Explosion Occurred
in the Shaft Under East River.

LONG ISLAND Cry, L. J., Dec. 90 AT
s o'clock Wednesday morning box OF
dynamite exploded in the shaft sunk
for the new East river tunnel, near the
junction of Jackson and Vernon
avenues, this city. The explosion set
fire to the four-story brick building adj
joining, and shattered every pane of
glass in the buildings for blocks around.
At o'clock nine bodies were reported
to have been taken from the shaft
A score or more persons were injured
by falling timbers, glass, etc. The ex-
plosion was so terrific that nearly every
building on Jackson avenue, from Fifth
street to Borden avenue, was either de-
stroyed or badly damaged. The
structures include the post-of!ice and
Sylvester & Co.'S factory. A fire i'm
mediately started in the debris and is
now burning
At the top OF the embankment where
the work was in progress is the rear of
a row OF tenements. The men took the
dynamite to this spot in the rear OF 81
Jackson avenue and almost over the
tunnel. Here the men attempted to
throw out the explosive and the catas-
trophe followed.
Among the dead are: Mary Brennan,
| aged 81; Henry O'Brien, grocer OF 20
jackson avenue; Edward Hopkins, 2a
years old, restaurant keeper; Mrs. Roe
co, Italian, q Jackson avenue.
The injured so far as known are:
Mary Grevy, skull crushed and internal
injuries, will die; Edward Delaney, 65
West Third street, age lS, skull frac-
tured and probably fatally injured un-
known Italian, fractured skull, man
gled beyond recognition, can not re-
cover.
Henry OBrien was killed while sit
ting near the window of his home fifty
feet from the scene of the explosion.
The house was shattered and an ava
lanche of broken glass from large mir
ror fell over him. Pieces OF glass
pierced his throat severing the juglar
| vein, and he bled to death.
Foreman John McAttlee was inter-
nally injured and may die--in fact, all
Of the injured will probably die
| All Of the tenements and large por-
ton OF the tunnel work were wrecked.
The long Island City post Office nearly
opposite the place where the work was in
progress, was badly wrecked. The scene
following the explosion was terrible.
Men, women and children only partial.
ly clad, rushed wildly from every pos
sible exit in the creates excitement
screaming loudly. The district where
the explosion occurred is the most
thickly inhabited section of the city,
For half Il mile Jackson and Vernon
avenues presented peculiar sight
Hardly an unbroken pane of glass
could be found within that radius.
Gray's refrigerator factory on Eourtl
street, opposite the scene of the explo
sion, was almost completely wrecked
A number of people were at work il
| the building at the time, but how many
of them were injured it is not at pres
ent known
At noon the fire was still raging il
the ruins. The fire department seemed
totally inadequate to cope with the sit
uation.
The cupalo of ST. Mary's Catholi
church on Vernon avenue and Eiftl
street was smashed into pieces by tn,
conclusion.
Work on the tunnel has been pro
crossing about two months. The city
it is said, has been warned time ant
again of the danger attending th
work but no action was taken Tor th
protection of the residents of the neigh
borhood against disaster OF Wednes
days character.
The flames were got under contro
in the afternoon.