St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-29
DONE BY DYNAMITERS,
Three Killed and Many Injured by
PENNSYLVANIA ExpIosion.

Three Killed and Many Injured by
? Pennsylvania Explosion.
WLKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. 2S.-A large
Hungarian boarding house at Laurel
Run, this county. was blown to atoms
by dynamiters at O'Clock this morning
and three Of the inmates killed out
right, four fatally injured and half
dozen seriously hurt. The killed are:
FRANK NowAsKI, aged twenty-eIght sim
gle.
MICHAEL CALLETz, aged forty. married.
GEORGE SELocKY, aged twenty-eight, mar
ried.
The most dangerously injured are Jo-
seph CailetZ, back broken; Mike Lo-
schitz, head and face cut and left arm
broken: kasha Cataresk, aged ten, one
leg broken, other crushed, necessitating
amputatiou; Michael Uritz. abdomen
torn; Blash Krell, both arms broken;
Fahr Kotsch, shoulder broken and in
jured internally: Anthony Sechleck,
back and breast crushed; UrtZ Misko,
legs crushed.
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 be-
ing about nine inches long and weighs
ing half pound. A wire connected
the sticks with battery about fifty
yards away. 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 in-
mates who occupied beds on the upper
floor were hurled fifty feet in the air,
some of them escaping fatal injuries
by alighting in the trees near by. Half
dazed by fear ana sleep. they
managed to hold on the limbs until they
recovered their senses and were able to
reach the ground. The track walker,
wio arrived on the scene shortly after
the explosion, says it resembed bat
tietield. The cries Of the injured were
heartrendlng. Some of them were in
the trees. Several of them were lying
on the ground. One of the boarders
who escaped injury made his way to a
neighboring shanty and woke the in
mates. Blankets and bedding were
carried to the scene and the injured
made as comfortable as possible.
At daylight the officials of the Lehigh
Valley railroad were notified and a
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 a loss as to 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 place in order to
get the plunder and escape detection.
Up to o'clock tonight no arrests had
been made. One of the wounded men
says that directly after the explosion ha
saw four strange men running down
the roadway leading to the village Of
Mills. They carried lanterns,
While he lay on the ground another
stranger approached him and rified hN
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
1ynamiters used Pittsburg dynamite,
which fact may leaf to their discovery,
as dynamite of that character is used by
the railroad contractors. whose tool
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
after would not work and a new one
was pecaSsarv