New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-03
EXPLOSION HURTS FORTY.
MOUNT VERNON SHAKEN.
TSco Cases of Dynamite Bloso Up
MAJ Be Three Deaths.

Two cases of dynamite used in connection
9Th The New-York, New-Raven and Hartford
Railroad Company's improvements in Mount
Vernon, exploded soon after o'clock yesterday
afternoon injuring about forty persons, shaking
up hundreds more and doing $4,000 worth OF
damage to property. About twenty-five hun
bred panes of glass were broken by the explo-
SION. which was felt throughout radius OF ten
miles
Hundreds OF residents thought the city had
been visited by an earthquake. When they
learned the truth they rushed to the scene Of the
disaster. Chief OF Police Foley sent out a gem
eral alarm 70 the entire Police Department and
every physician who could respond cared for the
injured. Many were panio-stricken. TWO are
likely 10 Gle as a result Of the accident They
are Robert Mears four months old, and Mrs.
Frederick stubings Both are in the Mount
Vernon Hospital
Among the seriously injured are: Fred sille-
man. q railroad employee, left hand. face and eye
cut; Abrarn Friedman. butcher. of No. 50 South
Bleecker-st. head hurt by beam; Mrs. Abram
friedman, head cut by plaster and glass; Mrs.
Mary lilly, Of Beecker-st shocked, removed to
hospital; Robert Mears. Of South Bleecker-st.,
head hurt; MISC Mary Mears, face cut and head
scratched: Mrs. Martinnengo. No. 81 South
Beecker-st. shocked; Mrs. George A. Harlow,
No % South Bond-st. head hurt by falling
shocked. taken 10 hospital; Mrs Archibald
Hutchinson. No. 20 South Bond-st.. head badly
cut; Mrs. Anna F1rman. No. 439 West Lincoln
ave- cut on head: Mrs. Wild. No 439 West Lin
coln-ave.. slightly cut; George Ffrman, No. 439
West LincoIn-ave., cut hand; Pietro Labasco.
shoemaker. West Lincon-ave. and Thirteenth
ave, face cut.
The spot where the explosion occurred is under
the Bond-st. bridge enc OF the most densely
tad IN he ciYv Ifebf All oie
cigarette dropped from the bridge is supposed
70 have been responsible for the explosion. 1t is
thought that the dynamite stored in the sinai.
magazine caught fire. and when the blaze
reached the ''exploders' in the same magazine
they set off the dynamite William F. Ryan,
Daniel King both foremen. and James f.
Bundga, a contractor. of Flushing, Long Island,
were arrested by Chief Foley, charged with
violating the Penal code. They were admitted
10 bail
An Italian employed by the contractors to
watch the dynamite magazines has not been
since the explosion. It is not known
whether he blown 10 atoms ran away
from fright. Had the accident occurred three
minutes before it did the Boston express, bound
for New-York, might have been blown TO pieces
The area in which the damage was done ex-
tends from South-st. south to South and
North Tenth ayes. the north. and from
West Third-st to beyond Mount Vernon, In the
other direction In the grocery store Of Joseph
3 Koke, Of West Lincoln-ave., two blocks away,
canned goods ana other things on the shelves
were thrown to the floor. In the houses in
Pearl-st windows broken, and in in
stance q young girl badly cut with broken
glass. In Courtland-st windows were broken
things thrown % the floor and pieces of plaster
from the ceiling thrown down. Women tainted
The heavy plate glass in the store windows alonS
the street from Thirteenth-ave. were shattered
so that ia some cases not a piece OF glass was
left III window. RouI4dsnsn Fstriok Gilroy.
who lives in Short-st. abed at the time and
was thrown TO the floor by the explosion His
wife who was in the kitchen, knocked
down.
William A. Miles, Commissioner OF Public
Works issued a permit May % TO the Eglee-
Bunting Construction Company, Of Boston to
store dynamite, subject to the city ordinance,
along the tracks. The coptractors filed a bond
OF 5000 as & guarantee Of good faith. Commits
sioner Miles says that according to his agree
three boxes Of dynamite OF the work at
time on occasion he found about four
teen boxes. he says, and made superintendent
Malcolm remove them to lille Square YOnkers
According TO the city ordinance it is the duty Of
the police to see that the explosive ordinance is
enforced and not that of the Department of
Public Works After to-day accident ii is
said. fourteen cases of dynamite were found In
magazine within two hundred feet Of where
made this discovery and ordered the explosives
removed. Miles says that If the second maga-
zine had exploded the loss of life in the vicinity
would have been terrible