The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-19
CRUSHED TO TIL
BY MASS OF ROCK
Five Men Killed by Cave
in Of Tunnel.
TREMENDOUS CRASH.
Mass Weighing Hundred and Fifty
Tons Fell Without Warning.
CREATED PANIC FOR TIME.
Workmen Rushed About Utterius Cries
That Added TO tn Confusion.
Rock Had TO Be Blasted
10 Recover the Mangled
Bodies OF the
Victims.
CREATED PANIC FOR TIME.
lBy Associated Press.l

NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-Five men were
when an enormous mass of rock cavesa IN
from the side and roof of the Rapid
Transit Tunnel, in course of construction
on Broadway. about the line or 1s4tn
Street. in this city The dead are:
Peter O'Hara, So years old.
Timothy Kelleher, SO years old.
John Goronsky.
Patrick Madden foreman of the muck
ers.
Luigi Dante, % years old
The injured are: Domenico DePetre.
taken to the hospital with scalp wound
and broken leg. Italian laborer, name
unknown. Injured about the left foot.
The section of the tunnel where the
cave-in occurred is 105 feet below the
surface. A shaft leads to the tunnel
anG from this snaft headings extend
north and south, each being about 500
feet long. The slide occurred In the south
heading about 440 feet from the shaft;
A gang of twenty rock drillers was work
ing in the extreme south end OF the
heading and about fifty feet from the
end A gang, made up of twenty muck
ers and a foreman. was removing ne
debris produced by the blasting
WITHOUT WARMING
Without warning the mass of rock six.
ty-three feet long. eleven feet wide :tfld
ten feet high. and Weighing about lae
tons, fell with Il tremendous crash direct
ly where the muckers were working, al
most closing the tunnel and creating q
panic among the two or three hundre1
men at work in other sections. Great
clouds of dust filed the whole exea.:rSs-.
ton. The frightened men. most of tIlsrt
Italians, shouted in wild excitement. stnd
finding themselves cut off, as they
thought, made wild efforts to escape. theirs
cries adding to the confusion and horror
Before long. however. all rnade ther way
to the street. and the work OF sescui:tss
the muckers was commenced
vt first it was supposed that at least Il
dozen men had been buried Under tho
debris. Word of the accident had been
quickly spread, and soon an anxiou.
crowd gathered around the shaft, scored
of men and women crying and wrirtgina
their hands while the rescuers worked
with tremendous energy to reach the sit-
tonbed workmen. Depetro and the tin
Known Italian were not buried under tha
mass of rock and were the first found.
When the rescue party began to remove
the rock they found the mansled bodies
of O'Hara, kelleher and Goronsky. Fn1
bodies of Madden and Danife ware btlried
under masses of rock which could not ee
moved. and could not be extricated, al.
though they were in plain sight.
WORK OF HOURS.
1t was the work of hours to drill th.
holes and charge them. At 2:t5 in the at
ternoon the charges were fired with the
result that the body of Foreman Mad
den was removed piecemeai. The next
blast uncovered the body of Danife. q
V. Y. Powers, senior assistant engineer
In charge OF the contract, said that the
fall of the rock would in no way inter-
fere with the safety of the tunnel
Tonight it was said that the fallen
mass of rock had been blown to pieces,
and that no more bodies had been found
and it is not believed that any more lives
were lost.
owen Bly,. the section boss. who was If
charge Of that portion of the tunnel. va:
placed under arrest. He was later taken
to the Harlem Police Court and remand.
ed to the coroner's Office where Coronei
yucca paroled him until tomorrow