The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-03
GAS FILLS A SHAFT HOUSE.
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~ the to- s'lry s'rI. iI.. and .t0Ir. v'fNl
q ahlft " eighteen tunnel s0fhHss Chr
wUfe vaiftHa 20 81 ..yf ini. '"r I'f's
Nine pars token o.. - tB0,H iHd Pho
city hospitals The unsf we're cont tn 'loir
hornes. Al trrc uut r dlNgnr ua' ulEhi
The ma ufitv ~ tha np1 sef' nD inc
sncond alor II mo al1.i n'uso theu the
aaa rnshed In without warming ono
man threw he hands ur and feli fnfsard
on hN face Oihrra puzzled toward him.
and thew. 100. caught the fun force ~ the
eae. There ga = r,.H ~ tho ioof 1nf
several tumtled -urtvIIuE IN th" ur'n mr.
A number II mon entered tho ntIil1g
holding their no.'rls and dragged nut
their unconscious fellow hhprers vhtn
othere directed streams II water into mo
structure 10 drive hack th' unNt1ria 'arnrs
A telephone m"s-age brought amhu.
lancea NJ thrre hospl'1ls and N" ro-"r'"a
from A. many prrcuo'- vtr hustled -
the tunnel shaft. IN 4 ! looms. the
tunnel physician. and ha assistant. pr:
l.. NJ RYAN. ct ~ the scene early ana
administered oNvRen ~ the RlsplnF men
Supt. Courtney wns m Nav YORK when
he received a message ~ hurry to Jersey
City, and he los; no time gntting there.
Fe don't wait Ia catch = surface cnr, but
sprinted 10 the ferry. reaching the mouth
OF the tunnel hores A. some ot the men
were being aiken away
Two hours and a half after the gas made
all the trouble a fire started in one corner
OF the shaft house not far from the magazine
containing some st'ck- ~ dv1Smlle lhls
caused . lot more excitement Men made
a rush for the magazine and began the task
Of removing the explosive 70 an Isolated
building. The crowd fell back a. q n as
IL was realized what was going on. The
blaze was put out 10y the TUNE company
volunteer firemen and -cm6 Lackawanna
railroad hands.
The men who we're 90 badly overcome
by the gas that it was necessary 10 remove
them to the hospitals We're John Huder I,
l2i McDonouRh street, Brooklyn; James
CaIbone, 6l4 Henderson street, jersey City;
John Maloney, $40 Henderson street. Jersey
City; John Hinse, 603 Grove street. jersey
City; Michael Derrick, 305 Monroe street,
Hoboken: John Heslin. SO Grove street,
Jersey City; Gus Lehman. 232 Adams street,
Hoboken. all to st. Francis Hospital; James
Carbinio, O. Jefferson street. Hohoken, and
Antonio Tabaski, pos Thirteenth street.
Jersey City, City Hospital.
W. G. McAdoo, president Of the New York
and Jersey Railroad Company, thus eH-
planned the accident yesterday afternoon:
Some poisonous fumes from a sewer
underneath the ground escaped and air
pressure from below percolating through
the soil drove these poisonous fumes 10 the
surface. At the @ane time spontaneous
combustion seems TO nave occurred in some
OF the cinders with which the ground az
that point is made. causing smoke to come
up through the surface. and this, added TO
the poisonous sewer gas. almost asphyXiated
the men before they could be pulled out Of
the danger zone. IL was a most eNtraor-
binary occurrence and ono which no human
foresight could nave anticipated"
All the injured men except one we're
DISCHARGED from the hOsnitAl last night.