Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-01
Three BLOWN TODEATH
Dastardly Dynamite Out
rage at Wilkesbarre.
a Hungarian Miners Camp Blown
Up by Robbcrs---Dynamite Sticks
Set Off by Battery---Eailure of a
Part of the Explosive To Go OF
Saves Many Lives.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. ga das-
sardly outrage was perpetrated at
clock this morning wherin it was
oremeditated by the scoundrels to sa-
crihce 80 or 60 lives by sending then
into eternity with a force of dynamite.
The motive was undoubtedly robbery
and it resulted in the instant death
of three Hungarians while a large
number were injured, eight of whom
ere in serious condition. The dead
tie: Frank Novako, aged 23. single
Mike Colletz, aged 40, wife and four
children in Hungary. George Silotzki
aged 20, wife and two children in Hun
gary. The injured are: John Colletz,
Mike Koshltz, Kasha Grattarick, Mike
Critz, BlaZak Croll, Fair Kotzak, An
thony Lucklich. Uritz Misko. Several
OF the injured cannot possibly recover.
Mcdonald and Sayre, railroad con-
tractors, are building second track
of seven miles on the Lehigh Valley
cutoff and at a point one mile from
Teirview in the wilds of WillSesbarre
mountain a Hungarian camp was To-
Gated which was presided over by
Mike Urklowitz and wife. The camp
consisted of a rough building 80 feet
square constructed in the midst of the
scrub oak besides the track. During
the night, as is always the custom,
three of the sixty Hunga rian borders
men and women, set - on watch
end were Willing the time away play
- ing cards. Sometime during the night
"a party, the number being unknown, of
desperadoes secured battery and
brought it to the railroad track in front
of the camp and connected 1t with
wire, completing a circuit to each
corner of the camping house. A tool
chest standing nearby was broken open
from which were taken number of
dynamite sticks which We're distrib-
uted beneath the building. The circuit
completed it was but moments work
TO turn on the battery setting off the
dynamite. However in the haste with
which the miscreants worked they
made faulty connection at the bat
terry. and when it was turned on but
one and certainly net more than two
of the dynamite sticks exploded. Frank
Novako who was one of the party
playing cards on the first floor was
Instantly killed, both legs being blown
off at the knees. The building totally
collapsed and was shivered into sliv-
ers excepting one half of the roof
which sank in, partially covering the
debris. The two men with Frank
Novako at the table We're scarcely in
jured at all, while the others killed
and injured met their fate from the
collapse of the building. Occurring be-
fore daybreak as 1t did the condition
of the unfortunate foreigners was de-
plorable and in their frenzied condition
they knew not what way to turn or
how to act. The force of the explosion
was SO great that the earth was torn
the effects in the line of baggage,
cooking utensils, ect., were scattered
in every election. AS is the custom
of the Hun arians those who were un-
injured at daybreak commenced col
lecting their shattered goods and chat
ties and by noon a large number of the
men had prepared to take their de-
ing no attention to their dead and in
jured countrymen. The Lehigh Val
ley Railroad company sent out a wreck
ing force with physicians, detectives
and the coroner Upon its arrival the
injured men were cared for by the
physicians, placed on the train and
brought to the hospital here and the
todies of the dead were also brought
here and prepared for buriel The
detectives have arrested Mike Urklo-
WITT, the boarding house boss, as
witness. They profess to believe that
he can give evidence that may lead
to the detection of the men who COM
ulitted the olltl-rE Ee