The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-28
Grand Central Station, and Many
Other buildings Partly wrecked
or Their Windows Smashed.
GUEST IN A HOTEL MANGLED
DEBRIS HURLED INTO HIS ROOM AS
If SHOT FROM CANNON.
Due to Blowing Up of High Explosives
Attorney jerome Assaulted.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-The reserve supply
of high explosives stored at the Park-ave-
nue. shaft Of the Rapid Transit tunnel, now
in course of construction, blew up shortly
after noon to-day. The giant blast killed
six persons injured a hundred others
and seriously damaged all the property
reached by the flying debris and the vibra-
tion of the shock.
The irregular square formed by the Muir
ray Hill Hotel on the west. the Manhattan
Eye and Ear Hospital and the Grand Union
Hotel on the east, and the Grand Central
Railroad Station on the north was the scene
of the explosion The buildings named suf-
fered the greatest damage. but the area
affected extended for several blocks in the
four directions from the center.
The Killed.
CYRUS ADAMS. cigar man at the Murray
Hill Hotel.
JAMES CARR, thirty-two years, a waiter
employed at the Murray Hill Hotel
LAWRENCE HINE. twenty-eight, Of An
sonia. Conn.
J. RODERICK ROBERTSON, of Nelson.
B. c., guest at the Murray Hill Hotel.
RALPH THOMPSON. assistant engineer.
All outside reports seem to agree as to his
death, but his body is not reported by the
police or by the hospitals.
THOMAS TUBES, master mechanic for
Contractor j. A. Shaler.
The list Of injured is an exceedingly long
one, but most of those in it have only
cuts caused by flying glass. Those more
seriously hurt and those from places other
than New York city are:
MISS BEST. aged eighteen. Newport, r.
l.. Murray Hill Hotel, face and head cut.
MRS BEST aged forty, Newport, r.
/ Murray Hill Hotel. face and head cut.
WILLIAM r. BRISTOL aged thirty-ive,
Meridian, Conn, Murray Hill Hotel, face
and head cut
WALTER r. BRISTOL. aged fifty. Muir
ray Hill Hotel. concussion of brain, St.
Vincents Hospital.
MRS. JAMES E. BUNTING. Boston. face
and hands cut.
MR.. CUMMINGS. Troy, N. Y. hands.
face and neck cut
MRS. CUMMINGS. Troy. N. Y. face and
hands cut.
GEORGE CHAPLIN. Stamford. Conn.
cuts.
CHARLES B. GAINES. New York city,
shoulder dislocated and many bruises.
J. C. GILCHRIST. aged forty-1ve. Co
head cut.
EDWARD JUHDE, 10 South Third
street. Philadelphia, cut about head.
E. NJ. LEWIS. Lima. o.. head and face
cut.
w. j. NOK, aged thirty-one. New York
city. severe scalp wounds.
MRS. BENJAMIN MOORE, aged thirty
five, Madison, n. J., Manhattan Hospital.
face and hands cut.
THEtREV. FATHER RYAN. New Eng
land, head face and arms cut.
MRS H c. SCOTT. aged forty, Kingston
N Y, face and head cut
JEFFERSON STANTON. Bridgeport,
Conn, shock and slight cuts on face.
JOHN WEISS, New York city. scalp
wounds, concussion of brain. internal in
turies.
]. Roderick Robertson, of Nelson British
Columbia was killed by debris hurled with
the force of artillery into mis- room at the
Murray Hill Hotel. He was general man
ager in Canada for the British Columbia
Gold Fields Company. limited. and prom
inent citizen in the community where he
lived He is said TO have been quite wealthy
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
The sunken approach 10 the street-rail-
way tunnel used by the Madison-avenue
line cuts through Park avenue and the
shaft for the Rapid Transit subway was
run down beside il a the intersection of
East Forty-frst street. The street-railway
approaches were housed over with a super
structure used for the operating plant of
the Rapid Transit contractors. Temporary
buildings for storage purposes were thrown
up against the superstructure a the mouth
of the shaft and there the explosion oc-
Cured. IL tore great gorge In the street,
demolished the temporary buildings and
part of the superstructure and sent mass
OF earth. splintered timber and twisted iron
high in the air. Much of it went battering
against the front OF the Murray Hill Hotel
and although the walls and main structure
of that building stood the shock. nearly
every room In the front of the house was
wrecked
The Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital on
the east side OF the avenue Jared nearly as
badly and had to be abandoned by the man
agement. The Grand Union Hotel lost all
OF its windows and glass partitions and
practically every front window in the
Grand Central Station was shattered. The
great clocks on its front towers were blown
from their cases. Thousands of windows.
some OF them seven blocks from the tunnel
shaft. fell In fragments 1t was the shower
OF broken glass and falling debris that in
jured the greatest number
Fortunately the explosion occurred at the
noon hour. Not more than a hundred per-
SONS were In the main waiting room Of the
Grand Central station. though In the srnok-
ing room at the southwest corner a number
Of men were lounging Some OF these were
slightly injured by bits OF glass. Four ticket
sellers were injured. They stood in the