The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-29
HURLEDBYDYNAMITE
A Hungarian Boarding House
in Pennsylvania Blown Up.
THREE oFThE INMATES KILLED.
Others Alieht in Trees-The Plot Meant
TO Stay Au-Gians Powder Ex-
pIeded by . Battery.

wuxEsBAakr. Pa, Oct. ga large
Hungarian boardinghouse At Laurel Run,
in this county. Was blown 10 atoms oy
dynamite Q, 8 o'clock this morning, and
three of the inmates we're killed outright.
four fatally injured and half dozen Sc
riousiy hurt. The killed are: Frank
Nowaski. Michael Galle,s and George sii-
ocky. The most dangerously injured are:
Joseph Gallets. back hurt; Mike Goshat,
head cut and left arm broken; kasera
kataresk, one leg broken. the other
crushed. necessitsting amputstion; Mich
ael Uritz. abdomen torn; Biash krsll,
both arms broken; Anthony ketzch,
shoulder broken and injured internally;
Anthony Sechleck, back and breast
crushed: Uritz Mishke, 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 stick being about nine
inches long and Weighing about half
pound. A wire connected the sticks with
artery about Fifty yards away. When
the signal was given only half dozen of
the sticks exploded. They were sufficient,
however, to completely wreck the build
ing. not . beam or plank of which was left
standing. Several of the inmates who oc-
cupied beds on the upper floors were
hurled fifty feet into the air. some of them
escaping fatal injuries by lighting on the
trees near by. Half dared by fear, they
managed TO hold on TO the limbs of the
trees until they recovered their senses and
were able to reach the ground.
A trackwalker who arrived on the scene
Sh aff ha pa
sembIed battlefield The cries of the
injured were heartrend!ng. Some OF them
were in the trees and others were lying on
the ground under the debris of the wrecked
building. One of the boarders who es-
capped injury made his way 10 q neighbor-
ing shanty and awoke the inmates.
Blankets and bedding were carried to the
scene, and the injured made as comfort
able as possible. At daylight the officials
of the Lehigh Valley railroad were noti-
fed, and q special train with . full corps
of doctors was hurried TO the scene. The
doctors dressed the wounds of the in
jursd, who were then brought to the hos
pital in this city.
The boarding boss says he is at loss to
know what prompted the dastardly deed.
AS far as he knows he has no enemies In
INC 1SL2S VI sike
the motive was robbery. As several OF
them were known 10 have considerable
money in their possession. Ii 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 building, in order to
get the plumber 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 lam
terms. While he lay on the ground
another stranger approached him and
rifled his pockets. He also cut the belt
which encircied his aist, and car ricd il
away. Another of the injured gives as
his opinion that the men seen on the
ground after the explosion were tramps.
The dynamiters used Pittsburg dynamite,
which fact may lead 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
suppositon 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 tonight
want him as a witness.