The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-10-29
AN AWFUL CRIME.

A boarding House Blown Up by Dyna'
mite by Unknown Men-Thrco Killed
aud Many Wouadod.
WILKEssARRE, Pa, Oct. GA large
Hungarian boarding house at Laurel
Run, this county, was blown to atoms
By dynamiters at 8 o'clock this morning
and three OF the inmates killed out.
right, four fatally injured and half
dozen seriously hurt. Tho killed are:
Frank Novaski, aged twenty.three,
single.
Michael Calletz, aged forty, married.
George salOcky. aged twenty.eight,
married.
The most dangerously injured are:
Joseph Calletz, back broken.
Mike loshitz, head aud face cut and
left arm broken.
Kasha Cataresk, aged twenty-nine,
one leg broken, other crushed, necessi-
tating amputation.
Michael Uritz, abdomen torn.
Blash Krell, both arms broken.
Fair Kotzzh, shoulder broken and in
jured internally.
Anthony Sechteck. back and breast
crushed.
Uritz Misko, leg crushed.
The tiends who planned the wreck did
their work well, despite the fact that
part OF the plan failed. They placed
about twenty-four stick OF dynamite
under the building, each being about
nine inches long and weighing about
half a pound. A wire connected the
sticks with battery about fifty yards
away. When the signal was given only
about half adozen OF the sticks exploded.
They wore sufficient. however. to COM
pletely wreck the building. not beam
or plank oil which was left standing.
Several OF the inmates, who occupi led
beds in the upper floor, were hurled
fifty feet in the air.
Some OF them escaped fatal injuries
by alighting in tho trees near by. Hall
dazed by fear and sleep, they man
aged to hold on to the limbs until they
recovered their senses and were able to
reach the ground. The track walker,
who arrived on the scene shortly after
tho explosion, says it resembled q bat
tlefieId. Tho cries of the injured were
heartrending. Some OF them wero in
the trees, others were lying on the
ground and under the debris OF the
wrecked buildings. One Of the board
ers who escaped injury made his way
to neighborinG shansy and woke the
inmates. Blankets aud bedding were
carried to the scene and the injured
made as comfortable as possible.
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Valley railroad were notified, and a
special train, with number OF ply
sicians was hurried to the. scene. The
doctors dressed the wounds OF the in
iured, who were then brought to the
hospital in this city.
The boarding boss says he is at loss
as towhat prompted the dastardly deed
As far as he knows, hc has no enemies
In the world. Some of the boarders
think tho motive was robbery, as sew
eral OF them wero known to have con.
siderable money in their possession. II
this was tho object OF tho fiends, 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 plumber and
then escape detection. Up to 7 CLOCK
tonight no arrests had been made. Ono
OF the wounded men says that immedi'
ately after the explosion he saw foul
strange men running down the roadway
leading to tho village Of Miners Mills
They carried lanterns. While he lay
on the ground another stranger ap'
preached him and ritled his pockets
He also cut the belt which encirclGd hi'
waist and carried it away.