The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-01
DEADLY DYNAMITE.
Large Hungarian Boarding House
 Blown to Atoms.
THREE KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
Che Motive Was Supposed to Be Robbery As Some of the Inmates Were Known to Have Money-shaken by
 an Explosion.

an Explosion.
 WrLKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct 29.-A large Hungarian boarding house at Laurel Run, this county, was blown to atoms by dynamiters at o'clock yesterday morning, and three of the inmates killed outright, four fatally injured, and half dozen seriously hurt. The fiends who planned the explosion did their work well, despite the fact that part of the plan failed. They placed about twenty-four sticks of dynamite under the building, each being about inches long and weighing about half pound. A wire connected the sticks with battery about 30 yards away. When the signal was given only about half dozen of the sticks exploded. They were sufficient, how ever, to completely wreck the build ing, not beam or plank of which was left standing. Several of the inmates who occupied beds on the upper floor were hurled 50 feet in the air. Some of them escaped fatal injuries by. alighting on the trees near by. Half dazed by fear and sleep, they managed to hold on to the limbs until they re. covered their sense and were able to reach the ground.
 A track walker who arrived on the scene shortly after the explosion says it resembled battlefield. The cries of the injured were heartrending. Some of them were in the trees; others lying on the ground and under the debris of the wrecked building. One of the boarders who escaped injury, made his way to a neighboring shanty and awoke the inmates. Blankets and bedding were carried to the scene and the injured made as comfortable as possible.
 At daylight the officials of the Le- high Valley railroad were notified and special train with number of physi- clans was hurried to the scene. The doctors dressed the wounds of the in- jured who were then brought to the hospital in this city. The boarding boss says he is at loss to know what prompted the dastardly deed. As far as he knows he has no enemies in the world. Some of the boarders 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 plunder and then es- cape detection. Up to ' o'clock last night no arrests had been made.
 One of the wounded men says that immediately after the explosion he saw four strange men running down the roadway leading to the village at Miners Mills They carried lanterns. While he lay on the ground another stranger approached him and rifed his pockets. He also cut the belt which encircled his waist and carried it away. Another of the injured gives | it as his opinion that the men seen on the ground after the explosion were tramps. The dynamiters used Pitts burgh dynamite, which fact may lead to their discovery, as dynamite of that | character is used by the railroad con- | tractors, 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 ore is still in reserve. Michael Bellakovitch, the proprietor of the boarding house, was arrested last night and sent to jail. The au- thorities say they want him as wit ness. He had money in his possession and on Saturday last told friend that he was going to the old country on Monday.
 SHAKEN BY AN EXPLOSION.
 CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Oct. 29-This city and vicinity was terribly shaken yesterday by an explosion which oc- cured on the summit of a hill mile from town, where was stored in a small building five tons of dynamite. The stuff had been sent here on consign- ment from Chicago house to local hardware merchant. It is presumed that rifle bullet fired by hunter into the building lodged in some powder that was in storage and that the per- son lost his life.
 The ground was torn up to great depth for some distance, while trees and fences for many rods were torn and twisted and quite number of trees were pulled up by the roots. The glass in every farm house for miles around was shattered. In this city the effect was disastrous to the plate glass fronts and windows in numbers of dwellings were blown out. The shock came while people were on their way to church and threw women and children down and several women tainted.
 The village of Bloomer, 12'miles dis tant from the scene, appears to have felt the force more severely than here The scene of the disaster was visited by thousands.
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 Small Tornado In Oklahoma.
 PERRY, Ok, Oct. "A tornado struck