The morning call., 1894-10-29
WORK OF FIENDS.
clearinghouse of Huns
Blown Up.
ROBBERY WAS THE MOTIVE.
Three Men Instantly Killed and
Many Injured.
ROBBERY WAS THE MOTIVE.
BY THE EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE
The Building Was Torn 10 Pieces and
the Scene ResembIed
Battlefield.

N1LhUSBAkRE, w IA. Oct. 26.-A large
Hungarian clearinghouse az Laurel
Run, this county, was blown to atoms by
dynamiters at o'clock this morning. and
three of the inmates were killed outright,
four fatally injured and half a dozen
seriously hurt
The killed are: Frank Nowaski, Michael
Gallets. George Silocky.
The most dangerously injured are
Joseph Callets, back hurt; Mike GoshIt
head cut and left arm broken; Kasera
Kateresk, one leg broken, other crushed.
necessitating amputation; Michael Uritz
abdomen torn; Blash Krell, both arms
broken; Fahr Ko zch, shoulder broken
and injured internally Anthony Sechleck,
back and breast crushed; UritZ MishkO.
legs crushed.
The friends 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 weighing about half pound.
a wire connected the sticks with bat.
terry about fifty yards away. When the
signal was given only about half dozen
of tie sticks exploded. They were sufi-
cient. however. to completely wreck the
building. not beam or plank of which
was left standing.
Several Of the inmates who occupied beds
on the upper foer were buried fifty feet
into the air, some of them escaping fatal
injuries by lighting on the trees near By.
Halt daZed by fear, they managed to hold
onto the limbs of the trees until they re-
covered their senses and were able t reach
the ground.
The track-walksr, who arrived on the
scene shortly after the EXPLOSION. says it
resembled a battlefield. The cries of the
injured were hearirending. Some of them
were in the trees, others lying on the
ground ana under the debris OF the
wrecked building. One of the boarders
who escaped injury made his way to a
neighboring shanty and woke the inmates.
Blankets end bedding were carried to the
scene and the injured made as comlorta-
bic as possible.
At daylight the officials of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad were notified and special
train with full corps of physicians were
hurried to the scene. The doctors dressed
the wounds Of the injured, who were then
brought 20 the hospital in this city.
The boarding boss says he is at loss to
know what prompted the dasiardly deed.
AS far as he knows. he has DO 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 Oh
ject of the fends, it is plain why they
placed SO much of The explosive under the
building. They wanted to kill every per-
son in the builling in order to get the
plunder and then escape detection. In To
O'Clock to-3ight no arrests have been
made.
One of the wounded men says that i'm
mediately after the explosion he saw four
strange men running down the road lead
ing to the village at Miners Mills. They
carried lanterns. While he lay on the
ground another stranger approached him
and rfied his porkeis. 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 :ramps.
The dynamiters used Pitsburg dvna-
mite. which fact may lead to their dis
covery, as dynamite of that character is
used by the railroad contractors. whose
iool-house is near the scene. The house
had been broken open and 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
was still in reserve.
Michael Bellacovich, the proprietor of
the clearinghouse. was arrested to-pignt
and sent to jail. The authorities say they
want him as a witness.