New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-23
THE CONTRACTOR DISAPPEARS.


The contract had been awarded to Peter Alticri
n Brothers, whose place of business Is at ohc-
hundred and-twelftlI-st. and First-avc Aiticrl
was at the place the time the accident occurred
and as soon ms he realized the extent of the
diset,ser, he jumped into his buggy and drove of
as rapidly as possible lie has not been
found since then The foreman of the
gang was on the top of the
high mass of rocks safe from danger, and touched
of the charge He also has not been found. As
soon AZ he saw the wrecked house. he clambcred
down tie rock, on the Park-ave side and ran
down the street at the top of his speed
Al the moment of the explosion Mrs Posey and
her aeod mother and father AMI four children were
in the kitchen and diningroom of their Hat, which
,yas i'm the rear Of the building OIL the second
floor Mrs Po."y sat IT the oGen kitchen win
dow with her child. Marie. in her lap. She heard
thc warning from the Italians that blast was
ahont 70 be fired. and Immediately closing the
window. started 10 20 with the Others toward the
front part of the fiat She had reached the WIN
dow in the dining room when the blast went on,
driving An enormous bowdcr, nine feet long and
about four feet thick, through the win
dow carving away large part of the
wall. and making an opening five times the size
of the window
uo-urr ND CHILD INSTANTLY KILLED.
rho bowldcr struck Mrs Po,cy on her left
sbouIlor. knocking her and the child over to the
o,hor side Of the dining room. They fell to the
aoor with the howldcr resting on their breasts
Thov were killed instantly. II required sin lire
men 10 lift the bowldor from the bodies.
Another howldcr went through the kitchen
wall making hole through the brick and plaster
t,yclve feet wide and eleven feet high. This
boyldcr flew across the kitchen and tore down I'll"
partition which divides it from th" kitchen occu-
Mod by the family next door Luckily, no one
WAS there. Unfortunately, however, there were
several pcop, in the kitchen of the Posey family
and Reginald and Irma Poscy were struck by the
or,,t stone The former sustained compound
rroctur. of rhe skull a compound fracture of the
loo. and received internal injuries. The latter
had her face badly cut by glass
4 BuWLpER SMASIlES THE WALLS
Tho first fat of the house is occupied by Mrs.
Nary Nc\dams a dressnaker Her husband is
coachman and does not live at home Mrs.
NcAdams was at the dining-room table when
the explosion occurred and before she could
move an enormous bowdcr weighing half u
TON. smashed through the wall of the house.
leaving IL hole almost a. large as the side oil
the room Fortunately the bowlder missed Mrs
NcAdamS nut some Ot tle nNlhS "icho Su"'h
her and broke her arm. The bowlder crashed
through the partition which lorms the hallway, and
demolished it.
Albert s Graham, twenty-seven years old, OF
No. l2s East d-andthirteenth-st was
in the dining-room with Mrs. McAdams at the
time He had entered the house only a few
minutes before to get dress Tor his mother
which Mrs McAdams was making. Some of the
ayinr bricks struck him on the leg and severely
bruised it,
Frank Richards. coorcd, twenty years old. who
lives at No. l62 Fast Eighty-eIghtl-st., happened
10 be in the basement of No 81 East One-hundred-
andtwenty -secOnd-St, AT the time oil the explosion
His ankle was injured by falling rock.
The third fiat of the house is occupied by Miss
Mary Lewis, Miss George Lewis, Mrs. Berdine
and Mrs Rudolph Miss Sarah Lewis was in
the dining-roo when Il bolder eleven feet long
and five feet thick crashed through the wall
and completely wrecked the room. Some Of the
wreckage struc, her and broke her right leg
WHAT Az EYE WITNESS SAYS.
Her sister, Miss gle Lewis said to IT'D
unc reporter: IL happened to be looking Out oi
the kitchen window Mt the time the explosion
occurred We had become so accustomed 10 the
blasting that we were not afraid OF 1t ana were
interested in seeing the rocks dinlodged. ihe
cborre seemed 10 be arranged as all the Others
had been LOGS Of wood were chained around
the blast But in an instant there was most
awful explosion. | never heard anything like II
in my life The house rocked and trembled,
and a great volume of flame, dust and smoke