The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-29

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 2S.-A large
Hungarian boarding house at Laurel
Run, this county, was blown to atoms
by dynamiters at 8 O'clock this morn
ing, and three of the inmates were
| killed outright, four badly injured and
half a dozen seriously hurt.
}, The killed are:
\ Frank Nowaski,
4 Michael Callets,
George Silocky.
] The most dangerously injured are:
Joseph Callets, back hurt.
Mike Gushit, head cut and left arm
broken.
Kasha Kataresk, one leg broken, the
other crushed, necessitating amputa-
tion.
Michael Uritz, abdomen torn.
Blash Krell, both arms broken.
Fair Kotzch, shoulder broken and
injured internally.
Anthony Sechleck, back and breast
crushed.
Uritz Mishko, legs crushed.
Did Their Work We'll.
The f1ends who planned the explosion
did their work well, despite the fact
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placed about twenty-four sticks Of dy-
mantle under the building, each being
about nine inches long and weighing
about half pound.
A wire connected the sticks with a
battery about fifty yards away. When
the signal was given only about a half
a dozen of the sticks exploded. They
were sufficient, however, to completely
wreck the building, not a beam or
plank of which was left standing
Several Of the inmates who occu-
Dried the upper floor, were hurled fifty
A feet in the air, some of them escaping
fatal injuries by lighting in the trees
near by. Half dazed by fear they
managed to hold on 10 the limbs of
the trees until they recovered their
senses and We're able to reach the
ground.
ResembIed a Battlefield.
The track-walker, who arrived on
the scene shortly after the explosion,
says it resembled a battlefield The
cries of the injured ware heartrending.
Some of them were III The trees: o1ners
were lying on the ground and under
the debris Of the wre xxi building. Ore
of the boarders who escaped injury
made his way to a neighboring shanty
and woke the inmates Blankets and
bedding were carried 10 the scene and
the injured made as comfortable as
possible.
At daylight the officials of the Le-
nigh Valley railroad were notified and
a special train with a number of physi-
i clans, was hurried II the scene. The
Edoctors dressed the wounds of the in
ReuTed, who were then brought to the
Ihospital in this city.
The boarding boss says he is al a loss
TO know what prompted the dastardly
indeed. AS far as he knows, he has no
1anemies in the world. Some of the
Fboarders think the motive was 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 under the building They
wanted to kill every person in the
building in order to get the plumber
and then escape detection. Up to Z
O'Clock tonight, no arrests have been
made.
one of the wounded men says that
Immediately after the explosion he saw
-four strange men running down the
NSnad leading to the village at Miners
mills They carried lanterns. While he
Law on the ground, a stranger approach
ed him and rified his pockets. He also
cut the belt which encircled his waist
and carried it away. Another Of the
injured gives IL as MS OpliiOH lndl
the men seen on the ground after the
explosion were tTamps.
The dynamiters used Pittsburg dyna-
mite, which fact may lead to their dis
covery, as dynamite of thai character
IS used by the railroad contractors,
whose tool house is near the scene. The
house had been broken open and a new
battery taken out. An old battery was
found near by.
The supposition is that the latter is
the one that did the work and the new
one is still in reserve.
Michael Belakovitch, the proprietor of
fhe boarding house was arrested tonight
and Sent to Jail. The authorities say they
want him as a witness.