The Washington times., 1894-10-29
BLEW UP A BOARDING HOUSE
Horrible Work of Unknown Dyna-
mitards Near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
THREE INMATES WE'RE KILLED
Four Others So Badly injured That They
Will Die-Twenty- Dynamite Sticks
Placed Under the Building and Con-
nected With Battery-Motive Robbery.

WnKEsBARRE, Pa. Oct 28.-A large Hun
garian boarding house at Laurel Run, this
county, was blown to atoms by dynamitards at
8 O'Clock this morning and three of the in
mates killed outright, four fatally injured,
and half dozen seriously hurt.
The killed are: Frank Nowasky, aged twen-
ty-three, single; Michael Calletse, aged forty,
married. and George Silocky, aged twenty
eight, married.
The most dangerously injured are: Joseph
Calletz, back broken; Mike Loshitz head and
face cut and left arm broken; kasha Cataresk,
aged nineteen, one leg broken. other crushed,
necesstating amputation; Michael Uritz,
abdomen torn; Blash Krell, both arms broken;
Fair Kotzch, shoulder broken and injured
internally; Anthony Sechleck, back and breast
crushed, and Uritz Misko, legs crushed.
The flends who planned the explosion did
their work we'll 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 weigh
ing about half u pound. A wire connected
the sticks with a battery situated about fifty
yards away.
HOW THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED.
When the signal was given only about half
dozen OF the sticks exploded. They were
sufficient, however, to completely wreck the
building, not beam or plank of which was
left standing Several OF the inmates who
sccupied beds in the upper floor were hurled
fifty feet in the air. Some of them escaped
fatal injuries by alishting in the trees nearby.
Half-dazed by fear and sleep, they managed
to hold on 10 the limbs until they recovered
their senses and were able 10 reach the
ground.
A trackwalker, who arrived on the scene
shortly after the explosion, says it resembled
q battlefield. The cries of the injured were
heartrending. Some of them were in the
trees; others were living on the ground and
under the debris OF the wrecked building.
One of the boarders, who escaped injury
made bis way TO a neighboring shanty and
woke the inmates. Blankets and bedding
were carried to the scene, and the injured
made as comfortable as possible.
AT daylight the officials OF the Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad were notified and a special train.
with a number OF physicians was hurried TO
the scene. The doctors dressed the wounds
of the injured, who were then brought TO the
hospitals in this city.
PROBABLE MOTIVE WAS RoBBERY.
The boarding boss says he is at loss as to
what prompted the 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 consider
able money in their possession. II this was
the object of the nends it is plain why they
placed so much of the explosive under the
building. They wanted to kill every person
in the place in order to get the plunder and
then escape detection.
Up to z o'clock tonight no arrests had been
made One oithe wounded men says 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 rihed his
pockets. He also cut the belt, which encircled
his waist and carried it away. Another oi
the injured gives it as his opinion that the
men seen on the ground after the explosion
were tramps.
The dynamitards used Pittsburg dynamite
which fact may lead TO their discovery. as
dynamite OF that character is used by the
railroad contractors, whose Toulouse is near
the scene. The house had been broken open
and new battery taken out. An old battery
was found near by. The suppositiDn is thai
the latter would not work and new one was
necessary.