The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
A DIAsoLIcAL CRIME.

aAhDofCHs LAOuoC SoubahuihS II
ty Inmates Blown Into Fragments by
Dynamite Three Persons Killed Out
right and a Large Number Seriously
Wounded-The Survivors Abandon the
Sufferers to Their Fate.
WMKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. GA das-
tardly outrage was perpetrated at
5 a. IN. yesterday wherein i. was pre-
meditated by the s%coundrels to sacri-
fee fifty or sixty lives by sending them
into eternity with a force of dynamite.
The motive was undoubtedly robbery
and it resulted in the instant death of
three Hungarians, while a large num-
Der were injured, eight of whom are in
a serious condition. The dead are:
Frank Novako. aged %; single.
Mike Colletz, aged 10; wife and four
children in Hungary.
George Silotzski. aged %; wife and
two children in Bohemia.
Among the injured are John Col
letz. brother of Mike, aged 80, married,
back broken, will die. Mike Koshitz,
aged 81, seriously injured around head
and face. Kasha Grattarick, aged 10,
leg broken and other injuries. Mike
Uritz, aged 80, pelvis fractured and
skull crushed. Blazak Croll, aged 50
years, arm broken, side hurt. Fahr-
kotzask, aged 81, breast torn and Shout
der broken. Anthony Tucklich. aged
SO, crushed in back and breast; con-
sidered fatal. Uritz Misko, aged 25,
injured internally, cannot recover.
Mcdonald & Sayre, railroad ON
tractors r building a second track of
seven miles on the Lehigh Valley cut
off, and at a point one mile from Fair
view in the wilds of Wilkesbarre noun
tain. a hungarian camp was located
which was presided over by Mike Urk-
lowitz and wife.
The camp consisted of a rough build
ing thirty feet square constructed in
the midst of a thicket of scrub oaks
beside the track.
During the night as is always the
custom, three of the sixty Hungarians,
men and women, sat up on watch and
were Willing away the time playing
cards.
Some time during the night a party
of desperadoes secured n battery and
brought it to the railroad track in
front of the camp and connected it
with a wire completing a circuit to
each corner of the camping house. A
tool chest standing e by was broken
open from which were taken a number
of dynamite sticks which were dis
tributed beneath the building.
The circuit completed, it was but a
moments work to turn on the battery
setting off the dynamite. However, in
the haste with which the miscreants
worked they made a faulty connection
at the battery, and when it was turned
on but one, and certainly not o
than two of the dynamite sticks ex-
ploded.
Frank Novoiko, one of the party
playing cards on the first floor, was in
stantly killed, both legs being blown
off at the knee.
The building totally collapsed, and
was hivered into slivers excepting one
half. of the roof, which sank in, par
TALLY covering the debris.
The two other men at the card table
were scarcely injured at all, while the
others killed and injured met their
fate from the collapse of the building.
The force of the explosion was SO
great that the earth was torn up about
the site of the camp, and their effects
in the way of baggage, cooking uten-
sis. etc., were scattered in every di-
rection.
AS is the custom OF the Hungarians,
those who were uninjured, at day
break, commenced collecting their
shattered goods and chattels, and by
noon a large number of the en- had
prepared to take their departure, hav-
ing no concern and paying no atten-
ton to their dead and injured country
men.
The Lehigh valley Railroad Co. sent
out a wrecking force, with physicians,
detectives and the coroner Upon it's
arrival the injured men were cared for
by the physicians, placed on the train
and brought to the hospital here, and
the bodies of the dead were also
brought here and prepared for burial.
The detectives have arrested Mike
U~rklowitz, the boarding boss, as a
witness. They profess to believe that
he can give evidence hat may lead to
the detection of the men who COM
mitted the outrage.