The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-28
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ments. It was the shower of broken
glass and falling debris that injured
the greatest number.
Fortunately the explosion occurred
at the noon hour. Not more than a
hundred persons were in the main
waiting room of the Grand Central
station. Some of these were slightly
injured by bits of glass. Four ticket
J sellers were cut about the heads and
( arms with the flying debris.
Dispatches Show Courage.
The clerical force in the executive
| offices of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad, which occupy the
| floors above the first, in the eastern
J wing Of the station, We're thrown about
/ by the shock
| Chief Dispatcher G. H Wilson and
/ his four assistants who were directing
! the trains of the New Haven line, hav-
/ ing several hundred trains to look out
Tor, were scratched with flying glass.
| but did not leave their chairs. even
| When they could not see their instru-
ments because of smoke One man.
roster, who was watching a single
: track strip in Connecticut did not even
get up to look at the ruins after the
smoke cleared away
The station tonight presented some
what the appearance of dismantled
castle, with the big WINDOWS only rag
ged holes.
General alarms brought firemen. no.
lice reserves and every available ambu-
lance to the spot A majority of the
wounded were treated on the SPOT. and
the Whlte-coated ambulance surgeons
worked for an hour in the debris
! StfeWn streets. Police lines wore
thEoWn across either end of Park ave-
nue. ana across the intersecting streets
The Killed and Injured.
The killed were: Cyrus Adams. ciga,
( lLIdH at the Murray Hill hotel: James
arr, % years old, a waiter employed
dI the Murray Hill hotel: - Heine
/ dged %, OF AnsOnia, Conn: ]. Roderick
~ -, NeiSoh' Is. 6, guest at the Murray
/ hllI motel; John II. THOMPSON assist
ant engineer, (aH outside Teports seen
| 10 agree as TO his death. but his body
/ IS not reported by the police or bv the
! hospltals); William Tor Charles) Tubbs
/ master mechanic for Contractor Ira A
/ Shaler. "a -
/ Inc list Of injured is an exceedingly
4 long one, but most of those in il have
/ only cuts caused by flying glass. Tbose
most seriously injured are: Waite,
/ Bristol. aged 50, Murray Hill hotel
/ conclusion of brain, St. Vincent's hos
/ pltal; Charles b. Gaines. New YORK
| City, shoulder dislocated and many
/ bruises; W. J. Nok, aged 81, New York
! City, severe scalp wounds: Mrs. Ben
1 Jamln 3. Moore. aged 50. Madison n
I j., Manhattan hospital, face and hands
( cut; Rev. Father Ryan. New England
( head, face and arms cut: John Weiss
! New York City. scalp wounds. concus-
/ sion of brain. internal injuries: 70. n
] Ferris, Cleveland, cut and bruised: %
2 n. Lewis, Lima, o., badly cut: 7 G
J Gilch~ist, Cleveland, cut: Mrs. Benia-
I min Moore. Madison. n. J., badly chi.
J. Roderick Robertson of Nelson r
/ G.. was killed by debris hurled with
! the force of artillery into his room al
/ the Murray Hill hotel. He was genera
/ manager in Canada for the British Co.
/ lunbia Gold Fields company limited
/ and prominent citizen in the comrnu.
nifty where he lived. He was a Scotch
/ man and leaves a widow and four chill.
/ dren.