New-York tribune., 1902-01-28


ny the explosion. He had an order signed by
Mr.. Shaler. Mr. SAKE said it would cost S15 OOO
TO replace all the glass and that il would
probably be done inside of week with the
exception of the windows where the sash had
been torn away.
LIE Clair Jaques, son Of the manager of the
Murray Hill Hotel. entering the hotel by
the Park-ave. entrance when the dynamite ex-
ploded and was severely cut about the head
py nylng pieces CT glass from the front doors
he was about the hotel all afternoon, his head
swathed in bandages. ]. DeForest colored
oellboy had two fingers broken. and Michael
burke, head waiter. had the back of his right
hand painfully cut
William Burns. the cab starter whose post is
In front of the hotel near the scene of the ex-
ploson, had narrow escape from serious in
jury. Five minutes before the accident hap
pened he called cab driver and told him that
he had left $500 in the pocket of his coat at
nome and that he going back to get It, as
ne thought it might not be safe The man who
took his place was severely injured that he
had to be removed to the hospital
JUDGE M'MAHoN SUFFERS.
The Misses Mary and Ella Mcmahon, daugh-
ters of Judge Mcmahon. were In their suite of
rooms, on the second floor. just above the sub
way where the dynamite exploded Miss Mary
her watch by the big clock in the Grand Central
station Presently there was a binding fash
1ollowed by a terrific explosion. and Miss Nc
4hdhoh was hurled from the open window. She
was assisted to her feet by Miss Ella Mcmahon.
ana was suffering severely from shock. When
she again looked out of the window the clock in
the Grand Central Station had disappeared and
the glass had been blown from her window
Judge Mcmahon was Immediately telephoned
fool
Astoria They had been living in the Murray
Hill for three years.
Marcel JoIrnet. basso of the Grau company
occupied apartments on the fourth floor of the
hotel. He was attending concert at the Wal
uorl-Astoria and returned to find his room in
RUNS An examination showed that several
pieces of valuable Jewelry were missing includ-
ing gold sleeve buttons, which were given 10
him by Queen Victoria and a Swiss movement
gold watch. which he received as present from
Emperor William of Germany. His nightshirt
which he had left on the bed he found hanging
from the chandelier. In the centre of the room.
Nearly all his clothing was DESTROYED
Hundreds OF the guests were compelled to
leave the hotel and find other quarters Among
those who left the hotel yesterday afternoon
were Judge Shipman. OF the United States Su-
preme Court; Thomas L. James DR.. W. D.
Sewen, Miss Frances Parsons Mr. and Mrs
David Nash. the Misses Virginia and Edith
Kendall, Richard P. Herrick, Mrs. William Glib
son and her son and daughter -in-law, Mr. and
Mrs Peter Gibson. of the Gibson House Gin
cinnati; GIendenin Eckert. son of President
Thomas T. Eckert of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company and his wife and family of two
sons and daughter.
HOTEL PRONOUNCED SAFE.
Perez NJ Stewart. Superintendent OF Build
ings. made an examination OF the Murray Hill
Hotel late yesterday afternoon and pronounced
II in safe condition.
Richard Bennett, OF Pulaski, an expert on
dynamite and other explosives declared there
must have been five hundred pounds of dyna-
mite in the subway to have caused so much dis
aster 1t was said by one OF the subway labor
ers that yesterday morning twenty five boxes OF
dynamite, weighing forty pounds each were
received in the subway and that none OF II was
left after the explosion.
William Matskn, who is employed IN the au-
diting department at the Grand Central Station
was standing at the Forty -second-st window
THE first thing 1 a binding flash"
he said. "and next came awful roar and a
shock that knocked me TO the ground. jumped
up Immediately. and found that the window
from which 1 had been looking was demolished
and that the air full of all kinds OF debris
On the street all chaos. Hatless men were
running 10 ana 1ro ana women were screaming.
Cab horses were lying on the sidewalk and
everything was confusion. The explosion sound
ed like the firing Of dozen 13-inch guns I
rushed down TO the street as soon as possible
and at the foot OF the elevated railroad stairs
I found a woman lying the ground. L
picked her up, believing that she was seriously
injured, and found that she was able to pro-
ceed her way"
The two children of William G. Rockefeller
at No. $50 Madson-aye. had just left the
sery when the windows were blown in and glass
scattered all over the room.
At the Hospital for the New-York Society for
the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Lex
ington-ave. and Forty-second-st. s. H. Leroy,
the superintendent said that beyond small
panic among the two hundred children inmates
of the institution, there were no fatalities. Six
teen injured persons, however, were brought into
the hospital and kept the four house surgeons
and nurses busy for more than two hours. Many
Of the windows on the Forty -second-st side OF
the hospital were smashed and the patients
in these rooms had to be removed to other parts
of the building Mr.. Leroy said that the explo-
sion caused him a sinking feeling He sup
posed it was in the hospital, and that the dyna-
mos in the cellar had exploded.
None of the patients brought in here were
seriously injured" he said. and all left here
after being treated. l never heard such a crash
a that explosion made. 1t caused me to feel
as If / was sinking through the floor. had no
idea where it came from. and all kinds of ter
rible thoughts entered my head until / found
the real cause"
w. K. Hatch, the chief clerk of the Grand
Union. was standing behind the counter, and
had just stepped behind a partition separating
the office from the reading room, when shower
Mr. afch I'm