Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-03
SIX PERSONS KILLED
And Many Injured by a
Boiler Explosion.
BUILDINGS CRUSHED IN.
Children In Parochial School Mar
rowlY Escape Death.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-At about / O'clock
yesterday afternoon boiler in the stable,
OF the drydock, East Broadway and Bat
terry surface road, al East Fourteenth
street and Avenue B, exploded, causing
death and destruction. The section of the
building in which the boiler was locat' d
collapsed.
The wrecked boiler was blown clear
across the stl eet 100 feet, and striking two
tenements like I'M enormous batterng
ram, broke down the wall TO the third
story. Ten minutes before the explosion
occurred scores Of children were playing
on the broad sidewalk In front of the now
wrecked building, picking up grain
spilled from the feed wagons which un-
load there, and dancing and carrying on.
The children were from the parochial
school of the Church Of the Immaculate
Conception rear by. Their homes were in
the surrounding tenements At o'clock
the teachers bell summoned them back 10
their tasks The last Of them had not
passed through the school gate when a
tremendous explosion shook the building
to its foundation and sent teachers and
children rushing 10 the street.
A Complete Collapse.
When the dust cleared away. a scene OF
wreck and desolation was disclosed. The
east end OF the drydook railroad company's
three-story stable had collapsed. The four
story wing east of il stood but hole was
knocked through the partition wall that
divided 1t from the fallen boiler houses.
The street WAS Uttered with broken bricks
and lumber. The tenements across the
way looked rs IL they had gone through a
bombardment
The fronts of two houses had disap
peared. Where they had been was rag
gid hole. A dying horse kicked in its
death struggles in the middle of the
street In the gutter lay one man appar-'
emily d. ad, and in the doorway Of the sa.
loon where he had been struck down,
another with broken head.
Here and there, everywhere, wounded
and bleeding men and children were
crawling away from the unkn own peril.
grasping with feeble hands In the pave
ment and the dirt. Ambulances came
half dozen-in answer to summons,
and the wounded and the dead were picked
up and carried away. A man, who ran
around wringing his hands and shouting
in anguished tones that his brother was
killed, was led away by the police.
Names Of Victims.
When a survey of the field had been
made the police list showed the casualties.
The dead; Thomas Hsssan, Samuel Nc
Mullen, Joseph Quinn, 22, carpenter; John
Gillespie, stabIemau; John Armstrong, en-
gineer; William Royal, 20, engineer.
Injured: Patrick Sheehan, 81, married,
driver, fractured skull; James Harland,
90 married, stableman, fractured thigh;
Michael BrenHan, %, single, laborer, arm
fractured; Cdaylrs Breslin, %, married,
stableman, fractured skull; George L.
MARITIME, 32, married, cardriver skull frac-
tured; Thomas Powell, 40, mechanic; Will
lam Egan, 25, married, laDorer, severe con-
tusions.
A mum Der OF others, including several
children, were struck by flying wreckage
and slightly injured. How many horses
were enguifed in the wreck when the
building fell is unknown. Seven were
shot two hours after the collapse. They
were all more or less injured How many
are In the ruins Is yet to be ascertained.
The cause Of the explosion was over
pressure. The loss of property is about
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