The sun., 1894-10-29
USED DYNAMITE In A PLOT.
THREE MEN KILLED AND A HoUsR
WRECKED AT NIGHT.
Nearly q Dozen Men Also Isiured in the
Collapse OF = Railroad boarding. House
which was Blown Up with Dynamite

Nearly q Dozen Men Also Isiured in the
Collapse OF = Railroad Bo.rdins House
which was Blown Up with Dynarait.-
wmKEsBARRE, Oct es.-At 3: 80 O'Clock this
morning Hungarian boarding house by the
side OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks on
the mountain cut on" mile from Fairview,
was blown up. Three men were killed outright
and nearly dozen injured.
The dead are:
FRANK NovAxo aged 23. single
MIKE CorLErz, aged 40 has wife and four chii.
dren In Hungary.
GEORGE snorzsxr. aged 9s. has wife and two chii-
dren In Bohemia.
Some Of the injured are:
JoHS CoLLErz, brother Of Mike. aged 80, married.
back broken; will die.
MIKE kosHrrz, aged p7. seriously injured around
head and face
KAsHA GRArrARcK, aged TO- leg broken and other In
juries.
MIKE Unrz. aged 80. pevis fractured and skuu
crushed.
BLAzAK CROFT, aged 80. arm broken. side hurt
FAgR KoTzAK, aged 32, breast torn and shouldes
broken
ANTHONY LucK1icH, aged 80. crushed in back and
breast; considered fatal.
URfTz MsKo, aged 2b injured nternaiiyi cannot re-
cover.
The dead were brought on n special Lehigh
Valley train TO this city, and some of the injured
are at the wilkesbarre City Hospital. The ex-
ploslon was caused by dynamite and was the re-
suit OF plot II was at place where n large
number Of men under Contractors Mcdonald
and Sayre are double-tracking the mountain
cutoff. short route of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad from the top of Wilkesbarre Moun-
tain down into the valley The plot was
well carried out The building held sixty
four laborers mostly Hungarians, packed
into half dozen rooms. Robbery or revenge
could have been the only motives for the crime,
IL was probably robbery as this morning
eral trunks and valises taken from the debris
during the excitement after the explosion wero
found IN the woods a little way Off broken
open. Their contents were missing. The murs
derers went at their work in a calculating way.
The camp consisted of rough building thirty
feet square. constructed in a lot of scrub oak
beside the track. During the night, as is always
the custom. three of the sixty Hungarian
boarders sat up on watch and were playing
cards. During the night some men, the number
being unknown, secured an electric battery and
brought It to the railroad track in front of tho
camp and connected 1t with wire. completing
a circuit, to each corner Of the camping house.
A tool chcst standing near by was broken open,
from which taken several dynamite sticks,
which were put beneath the building.
The circuit completed. the battery was turned
on, exploding the dynamite. In the haste with
which the miscreants worked they made q
faulty connection at the battery, and when IL
was turned on only one of the dynamite sticks
exploded. Frank Novako who was one of the
party playing cards on the first floor in-
stantly killed. both legs being blown off at the
knees.
The building collapsed. The two men with
Frank Novako at the table were scarcely In
jured at all The others who were killed and
those who were injured met their fate from the
collapse of the building. Occurring as 1t did be-
fore daybreak, the Huns scarcely knew which
way to turn. The force OF the explosion was so
great that the earth was torn up about the site
of the camp, and baggage and cooking utensils
scattered in every directions.
Like all the Hungarians in this region, those
who were uninjured began at daybreak to col-
lect their goods and chattels and by noon most
OF the men left, paying no attention TO their
dead and injured countrymen.
The detectives have arrested Mike Crklowitz,
the boarding boss. as witness They think
that he can give testimony that may lead to the
detection of the men who committed the outrage.