Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-11-01
A DIABOLICAL DEED
BOARDING HOUSE BLOWN UP.
Some Malicious Person at Laurel Run
Pennsylvania, sends a Number of Hun
garians Into Eternity by Using Dyna-
nit -Terrible Work of Destruction.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 2S.-A large
Hungarian boarding house at Laurel
Run, this county, was blown to atoms
by dynamiters at 3 o'clock this morn
ing and three of the inmates were kill
ed outright, four fatally injured and
half dozen seriously hurt.
The fiends who planned the explosion
did their work well despite the fact
that part of the plan failed. They
placed about "a sticks Of dynamite un-
der the building, each being about
inches long and weighing about half a
pound.
A wire connected the sticks with a
battery about so yards away. When
the signal was given only about half n
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 inmates who occu-
pied beds on the upper floor were
hurled so feet in the air, some of them
escaping fatal injuries by lighting on
the trees near by. Half dazed by fear
they managed to hold on to the limbs
of the trees until they pocovered their
senses and We're able 70 reach the
ground.
The track walker, who arrived on
the scene shortly after the explosion,
says it resembled battlefield. The
cries Of the injured were heart-rending.
Some Of them were in the trees; others
were lying on the ground and 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 and
bedding were carried to the scene and
the injured made as comfortable as
possible.
At daylight the officials of the Lehigh
Valley railroad We're notified and n
special train with number Of phys!-
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
to know 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 rob-
berry, as several of them were known
to have considerable money in their
possession. If this was the object of
thV hcAAdS IL 10 why lhty
SO much of the explosive under the
building. They wanted to kill every
person in the building in order to get
the plunder and then escape detection.
Up to O'Clock tonight no arrests have
been made.
One of the wounded men says that
Immediately after the explosion he
saw four strange men running down
the road leading to the village at
Miners Mills. They carried lanterns.
While he lay on the ground another
stranger approached him and rified
his pockets. He also cut the belt which
encircled his waist and carried 1t
away. Another of the injured gives II
as his opinion that the men seen on
the ground after the explosion were
tramps.
The dynamiters used Pittsburg dy-
Mantle, which fact may lead to their
discovery, as dynamite of that charac-
ter Is used by the railroad contractors,
whose tool house is near the scene.
The house had been broken open and
a new battery taken out. An old bat
terry was found near by. The supposi-
ton is that the latter is the one that
did the work and the new one was still
in reserve.
Michael Bellakovitch, the proprietor
of the boarding house, was arrested to-
night and sent to Jail. The authorities
say they want him as a witness.