Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-12-22

IN NEW YORK POWER HOUSE.
Several Passengers Lose Lives and
Others Are Hurt.-Many Miracul-
ously Escape In the Nearby
Buildings.

New York, Dec. 21-Thirteen per-
hGt their lives, at least 1875 were
6jured and fully 1000 badly shaken
up In an explosion Of car lighting gas
tanks and dynamite in the new six
story power station Of the New York
Central railroad, under course Of con-
0truction. The scene ID near the heart
Ct the city. Nine bodies have been
recovered and the bodies of four work
men are in the wreckage.
- trolley car filled with high school
students was blown from the tracks
a Lexington avenue Four passengers
we're killed and the others were in
tured. The car foil on on an automo-
bile which had been hurled before it
by the force Of the explosion. Fl
se Panic az Buildings Totter.
1sa Fire Chief Croker says that in his
opinion the first explosion was that
OF lighting gas and the second explo-
sion that of 100 pounds Of dynamite
which lay within so feet Of the gas
tank. The force of the explosion shat
tered hundreds Of windows in the biz
hotels and apartment houses in the
neighborhood of the big railroad term
inal, causing alarm among the guests.
Walls, in many cases, were cracked.
A cloud Of smoke hung over the scene
and bodies were scattered here and
there. The Grand Central cut, where
new track levels are being excavated,
looked as II battle had been fought
In it.
lire Engine House Wrecked.
The shock, which could be felt for
many blocks, partly wrecked the fire
engine house nearby and prevented
the hremen from getting their appa-
ratus into the street. Monsignors
Lapette and Hayes and Fathers O'Con-
nor, McQuade, Sinnott and Byrnes, Of
st. Patrick's cathedral hurried to the
scene and administered the last, rites
Of the church to many. Of the injured.
At the postoffice substation, Fortieth
street and Madison avenue, the explo-
sion slightly injured several clerks
and scattered the mail over the floor.
In the New York Nursery and Child's
hospital ceilings were partly shaken
down and the windows broken. but
none of the 300 children was badly
hurt. 5s
The powerhouse. which is of stone
and brick, and six stories high, caught
dre after the explosions and the in
terror was practically burned out.
Just what caused the double explosion
probably may be never known.
Scores Thrown to Floor.
In the Bible teachers training
school on Lexington avenue, directly
opposite the power house, 1876 men
and women who were on their way to
breakfast were thrown to the floor by
the blast Many Of the men and
women were injured and several Of
them were taken to hospitals. All the
windows in the building were blown
In and the ceilings fell.
The damage to the power house and
other buildings has not been estimat-
Cd, but it was stated that it will likely.
coed s2,0OO,OOO.
Of the II firemen in the fire house
opposite only one was injured. "A lit
tie school girl was about to enter a.
candy store on Fifty-frst street when
the blast came. She was picked up
bodily and carried through the plate
glass door of the store and dropped
uninjured in front of the candy coun-
ter. # 3 .5.ss
District Attorney Whitman visited
the scene of the disaster and conferred
with number Of officials Of the New
York Central. He said, the explosion
was caused by Illuminating gas Cor
nelius Vanderbilt also made an in
YeStiPati0n Esa. $3.50 $50