The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-01-30
A DYNAMITE HORROR
Six Killed and One Hundred
Injured In New York.
EXPLOSION IN RAPID TRANSIT TUNNEL
nts Hotels, Private Residences ana
Hospitals Wrecked In the MUIR
ray Hill SectiOn--Grand Gem
tral station Also suffers.


NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-Dynamite car
tridges In frail shanty on platform
over the west shaft of section of
'he subway tunnel in Park avenue just
,outh of Forty-first street exploded
through a fire which started among
'aper in the shanty just after noon
eeterday with fatal, manning and in
.uring results and wide destruction of
'roperty. Six persons were killed by
he disaster, and more than 125 were
Injured, few, however, of them having
more serious hurts than cuts inflicted
by glass or wreckage.
In the gloom of the dust cloud Great
ed by the liberation of Titanic energy
the results of the disaster became grad
ually apparent. Not a window remain
cd intact on the Park avenue front of
the Murray Hill hotel, and few win
dows were unbroken on its Forty-first
street front. Farther south the man.
sion of William II. Payne, 9S Park av-
epue, had its 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, so far as it's windows, en-
frances and facade adornments were
concerned, have suffered less from
bombardment. and the Forty-second
street front Of the Grand Central sta
tion had not only all it's windows de-
stroyed, but the clocks in its towers
were blown into them.
There were other and farreaching
results of the explosion. Windows were
broken in Thirty sixth street as far
east as Third avenue and west in Mad
Sson 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. 1t stood
the shock so well that not brick was
displaced, and in the entire building
not more than a score Of windows were
broken. Substantial damage was done
70 a dozen houses in East Forty-secOnd
street.
Every drug store in the neighborhood
was turned into temporary hospital.
AhoSC SdpuDic VI SlNius W tuc
injured were in great demand. Many
Apen and women seriously injured, I'M
conscious Of their hurts, went about
giving assistance to others, to be re-
minded later of their own wounds.
Responsibility for the terrible acci-
dent has not yet been placed, although
Ave arrests have been made. The au-
thorities were prompt in acting and
positive in their assertions that those
upon whom guilt rests will be brought
TO account.
Despite the terrible results Of the ex-
piosion reasons are found for public
cDngratulation that it was not worse.
1t occurred few moments after noon.
Had it been just a bit earlier scores of
workmen would have been swept to
death by the blast. A little later and
the dining room of the Murray Hill ho-
tel, that was literally riddled, would
have been filled.
The explosion was one Of the worst
catastrOphes that has ever visited the
city and will be put down as one Of
the calamities foremost in the destruc-
t1On Of property. Conservative est-
mates place the damage to property in
the neighborhood of $1,000,000.