New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-25
THINK FOURTEEN DEAD.
TEN STILL BURIED.
-Four Killed H'hen Tons of Rock
Fall IN Subscay.

Fourteen lives. Il is estimated. were lost ,..-
-lght Il 8 cave-in- following series OF blasts
= re section OF the rapid transit tunnel 8,
yo-s-hv~ sred-an6- ninety fifth-xt- and Flsvs,.h
,~s. T-~o italian worknen were taken eror,
.rss- rocks dead: two more lay in plain s,rbt
,,., f-np-isoned. dead. and ten mere uerc s,,-
-ased 10 be living out Of sight under the tons
q stone
his section Of the tunnel is being built by 7,
Z McCahe & Co It's one Of the most Diff
.-p,t il The whole lire Of the subway. heinz
suit through the solid rock All through the
-verrv-1our hours OF the Gay men are working
here. and Advancement is SLOW
Isss- night gang Of men went OF duty AZ 8
O'Clock 1T 10 O'Clock preparations were made
m blasts According TO the story of Charles
7-ocke-. a oolored man. who lives at No. GA
west Observation-Disclosures and Is
enjoyed On the work. Billy Burns. an elec-
--iciar. we-t snto the mouth OF the tunnel IN
s+-.-r wires he vas followed by about ssv-
e--een or eighteen Italians. The men had
s,s-cely set into the tunnel when there was
heard the reports of three blasts followed hv
a -ur5Iing sound, and down on the top OF the
-oer fell tons upon tons Of rocks which had been
loose1e5.
Some q TIE men. who were IN the rear. had
-i-e 20 escape. but the greater number were
csur-- z-S buried before they had time 70 make
q move.
he noise OF TIE blasts alarmed the neiShbor-
hood a-5 brought everybody within blocks on
he scene Among those who -aa 70 the mouth
n she shat which is situated at Tvvo-hun-
6-s5.h-s--. was Patrolnan Dempsey. OF the West
7re-h1-5-e5-a1d-tNeuty station. He
realized tLzt g terrible accident had occurred
er5 called Cd Police Headquarters and all the
hos-. -c-s he could reach In response the re-
serves were sent from the West One-hundred-
s75--u-errv-fftr-s- West one-hundred-and-
1f-v-secc-6-s-. ana High Bridge stations: arnbu-
-a-ces hurried from Fordhsu. Harlem J. Hood
W-gH- Lincoln and Lebanon hospitals. and fire
trucks = and . also responded.
Police. 1reuel. ambulance surgeons and Ia
5o7e-s scrambled 70 where the imprisoned men
we're a-6 sci g work 70 Try 10 release them
2 e little while four badly wounded Italians
were pulled out- and Two dead men. but the
others remained pinned beneath the rocks Some
n these thus pinned were only partly hid by
ire stone that lay on them. and their agonized
.sa-u-es could be seen as they strove vainly 20
release themselves
The cries t-o-, those who we're further II the
working and could not be seen could also be
heard
Two - those who were nearest the rescuers
--s-e SO badly crushed thar IL was evident their
Ives must pay forfeit To relieve their diving
agc-y DTS. Wesccott and Gibbons gave them
injections O morphine. Nothing could be done
= sa~e them and they died before The eyes of
he helpless onlooke-s-
Another pathetic incident vas the anputation
q leg c. sn imprisoned workman Across his
lCHer L1bs rested q huge ROCK. under which ne
lay pinned and entirely unable 10 release him
self TIE mass ~ stone was so heavy that II
could ro- be removed II an effort 20 save his
ne, z was decided 20 amputate the leg that
appeared 70 be most badly crushed. and this
vas 5eue.
Among those attracted 70 The scene was
Flther Lynch. OF s. Elizabelh's Roman Catho-
De Church a. One hundred eighty-second-
s. srd A-,srer6a--ave- Re went into the tun-
~. and administered extreme JUNCTION 10 the
diving
TIE subway a. this point IL deeper than at any
riace l- l-s entire length, the floor being sixty
feet ae.or ne surface. The excavation IS Efty
seet vtle and about fifteen feet in height The
funnel is being bored norrhward and southward
he southern opening being az one-hundred-
srd-e-E1-v-e-St-sr and the northern az Two
hu15-e5-h-s-.
Thar portion which vas started at Two-hun-
o-s1---s-- has proceeded as far as one-hUn-
1-ed-a-t--5-e-y-tfth-S The work was n the
immediate charge OF General Superintendent
HUr- ar5 General Foreman Richard Baers OF
10 5-5 West -snd-sixty-eighth-st
Captain EIz-ri1 CT the West observation-disclosures
1fry-secol6-s-. station, said they would be ar
rested vhe- re work q rescue had proceeded
"a enough % permit OF their being taken away
-f-ho-- Ls-5e-ifE the work
Z was said early this morning that one Of the
cez5 men whose body had been taken from the
debris. was supposed . be Louis PoPpio. OF
lre-r--s cred AZ, ! - -fourth-s1. and Am
ere-1a--ave- Two O. those buried beneath the
-ocks were supposed 20 be Angelo Fabbio, Of
ore-hu-1-es- a-d-eigtty-1fth-st and Amster-
lance and Louis DeIiro Of One-hundreo-
s.c-c -fgurrn-sr. ana Aulsterdam-ave-