The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-01-28
ADYNAM.I'TE HORROR.
Six Killed and One Hundred
Injured In New York.
EXPLOSION IN RAPID TRANSIT TUNNEL
Big Hotels, Private Residences and
Hospitals Wrecked In the MUIR
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trail station Also Suffers


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trail station Also suffers.
NEW YORK. Jan. 2s.-Dynamite car
tridges> in frail shanty OH Rlatform
over the west shaft of section 4 OF
the subway tunnel In Park avenue just
south Of Forty-tirst street exploded
through fire which started among
paper in the shanty just after noon
yesterday with fatal, manning and in
turing results and wide destruction Of
property. Six persons were killed by
the disaster, and more than 125 were
injured, few, however. of them havin;
more serious hurts than cuts inflicted
by glass or wrecl,age.
In the gloom of the dust cloud Great.
ed by the liberation of Titanic energy
the results of the disaster became grad
nally apparent Not Il window remain
cd intact Oh the Park avenue front Of
the Murray Hill hotel, and few win
dows were unhrokcn on its Forty-frst
street front. Farther south the man
sion of William H. Payne, 90 Park av-
enue. had lis windows shattered and
driven in. Opposite the Murray Hill
hotel the Wells and Gerard apartment
house was in equally sorry condition,
the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital
was rendered unfit for the occupancy
of patients. the Grand Union hotel
could not. 80 far as its windows, en-
frances and facade adOrnments We're
concerned, have suffered less from
bombardment and the Forty second
street front Of the Grand Central sta
ton had not only all its windows de
stroyed, but the clocks in its towers
were blown into them.
There We're other and farreaching /
results Of the explosion Windows were
broken in Thirty sixth street as far
east as Third avenue and west in Mad |
ison avenue and in East Forty seventh
street. The wonder of the day was the
east wall of the Lincoln Safe Deposit
company and National bank. Ii stood
the shock so well that not brick was
displaced, and in the entire building
not more than Il score of windows were
broken. Substantial damage was done
to dozen houses in East Forty second
street The total of property loss is
about $2SO,00o. The damage to subway
was comparatively slight and
may be repaired within week.
Every drug store in the ncighhorhood
was turned into temporary hospital.
Those capable Of giving first aid to the
injured were in great demand Many
men and women seriously injured. un-
Of their hurts. went about
giving assistance to others, to be re-
minded later of their own wounds.
Responsibility for the terrible acct
tent has not yet been placed, although
I've arrests have been made. The a,l
Ih"rities were prompt in acting and
positive in their assertions that those
ipon whom guilt rests will be brought
q account
Instead of offering such assistance as
hey might in clearing up the response"
Jility fer the explosion all connected
With the construction Of the subway,
rom the principal contractor to the
in charge of the division
nd down to the mercst laborer in the
Itch, kept their own counsel and re-
used to answer questions. Fire Of
lcials do not hesitate to say that eXplo-
ives far in excess of the amount per-
nltted by law were stored for use in
he tunnel.
Despite the terrible results of the ey-
'loslOn reasons are found for public
generalization that it was not worse.
t occurred few moments after noon.
lad il been just a bit earlier scores of
vorkmcn would have been swept to
cath by the blast. A little later and
he dining room of the Murray Hill no,
81. th"1 Was literally riddled, would
ave been filed.
That 10 ear was near the immediate
c'i'c If III" disaster is considered al
l"st miraculous. At that time of the
~ ears ordinarily run on Il hcndway
T thirty seconds. and although, the
that exploded WAS stored in
iiim*y sNHntr standing less than ten
ret from III" HnUthHr,nd track, no ear
ias near enough in Park avenue TO
,lstnin material damage. !