Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-29
FIENDISH AND FOUL
The Latest Evolution from the
Criminal Mind.
BLOWING UP MEN IN THEIR SLEEP,

With the Object Of Killing Every One and
Robbing Their Corpses-Result: Three
Men Dead and Eight Dangerously
posed Strikers Not So Successful on .
Non-Union Man and Family.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct ga large
Hungarian boarding house at Laurel Run,
this county, was blown to atoms by dyna-
mite at 3 o'clock in the morning and
three of the inmates killed outright, four
fatally injured and q half dozen seriously
hurt. The killed are: Frank Nowaski,
single; Michael Calletz, married; George
Selocky, married. The most dangerously
injured are: Joseph Calletz, back bro
ken; Mike Loshitz, head and face cut and
arm broken; Kasha Cataresk, aged 10,
one leg broken, other crushed necessitat-
Ing amputation; Michael Uritz, abdomen
torn; Blash Krell, both arms broken;
Fahr kotzch, shoulder broken and in
jured internally; Anthony Sechleck, back
and breast crushed; Uritz Misko, legs
crushed
Diabolical Work Well Done.
The fiends who planned the explosion
did their work wcll, despite the fact that
part of the plan failed. They placed about
twenty-four sticks of dynamite under the
building, each being about nine inches
long and weighing about half pound
A wire connected the sticks with bat
terry about fifty yards away When the
signal was given only about half dozen
of the sticks exploded. They We're sufii-
cient, however, to completely wreck the
building, not II beam or plank of which
was left standing. Several of the inmates
who occupied beds on the upper floor were
hurled fifty feet in the air. Some of them
escaped fatal injuries by alighting in the
trees near by. Half dazcd by fear and
sleep they managed to hold on to the
limbs until they recovered their senses and
and were able to reach the ground
Looked Like a Field of Battle.
The track walker, who arrived on the
scene shortly after the explosion, says it
resembled n battlefield. The cries of the
injured were hcartrendering. Some OF
them were in the trees; others We're lying
on the ground and under the debris of the
wrecked building. One of the boarders
who escaped injury made his way to a
ncighboring shanty and woke the inmates
Blankets and bedding were carried to the
scene and the injured made as comfortable
rs possible. At daylight the officials of
the Lchigh Valley railroad were notified
and special train with number of
physicians was hurried to the scene The
doctors dressed the wounds of the injured,
who were then brought to the hospital in
this city.
- 211aydlng house boss says he is at a
loss as to what prompted the dastar,iiy
deed. As far as he knows he has no enc
mics in the world. Some of the boartiers
think the motive wns robbery, as several
of them were known to have considerable
money in their possession. If this was
the object of the fiends it is plain why
they placed so much of the explosive un-
der the building They wanted to kill
every person in the place in order to get
the plumber and escape detection. One
of the wounded men says that immedi-
ately after the explosion he saw four
strange men running down the roadway
leading to the village of Miners Mills
They carried lanterns. While he lay on
the ground another stranger approached
him and rifled his pockets.