The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-10-18
Men In Pennsylvania Rail
road Excavation Have a
Narrowing Experience.
BURIED BYBLAST'S DEBRIS
Two of Laborers May Die Frem
WOunds..DecfOrs Work Hero.
icalIy in Face of Danger.
Victims Taken Out and
Hurried TO Hospitals.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1s.-Thirteen men
were injured two probably fatally,
when they were buried by a fall of hum
dreds of tons of rock and shale early to-
day in the Pennsylvania Railroad tun-
mel under Sixth avenue and Thirty
second street. which had been loosened
by terrific blast.
Six drillers risked their lives in the
rescue work far under ground, while
physicians were rushed into the tunnel
to care for the injured.
Eleven of the men buried were only
partly covered, and they stood sinking
in the sliding sandstone and directed
the efforts of the men digging for the
two whose bodies were out of sight,
and who were smothering.
Dr. Hasbrouck, of the New York Hos
pital, and Dr. Sayre, of Bellevue, also
played heroic parts, standing in the
dimly lighted narrow tunnel, with
showers of rock falling down on them,
with the possibility of another landslide
that would engulf them all.
After ten minutes of burrowing in the
slippery mica rock the limp body of
Rosario Jenuzzio was taken out, and
few seconds later the body of Antonio
Deneliene was recovered.
Both men were unconscious, and the
small pieces of rock were still shower
ing down, but the doctors went on
with the work of resuscitation, and in
a few minutes had nearly restored
Rosario to consciousness and he was
carried to the surface and hurried to
New York Hospital.
The task with Deneliene was more
difficult. His respiration showed that
he was in no danger of suffocation, but
he continued unconscious, and the doc
tors finally determined that his brain
had been injured and he was taken to
Bellevue Hospital. There it was found
that he had received a compound frac-
ture of the skull and little hope is given
that he will recover.
A third man. Carocat Draco, one of
those only partly buried, sank to the
earth with a groan while the doctors
were working with the unconscious
men who had been engulfed, and again
the other men, cut and bruised and
with the heavy mass of earth pressing
about them, waited while he was dug
out and hurried to the ambulance OF
the New York Hospital. AT the hos
pital it was found that he also had re-
ceived fracture of the skull, but 1t Is
slight, and he will probably recover.
With the most dangerously injured
men out of the way the drillers soon
dug out the remaining ten. Everyone
was cut and bruised.
The blast which. was responsible for
the landslide had taken place several
hours before the gang that was en-
quilted went into the shaft. 1t had been
an extra heavy shock and men were
kept out until it was considered certain
that the rocks had all fallen and settled
The laborers were in direct charge OF
Bernard Connors, of 461 Lexington ave-
nue.. He explored the tunnel for a
short distance, and finding that only
small portions of rock were falling, sent
them in to load the buckets that arc
used to carry the broken rock out OF
the bore. They had not been in the
place long when there was dul
rumble, and the shrieks of the men in
dicated what had happened.