The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-20
TEN KILLED IN
GAS EXPLOSION
Nearly 100 Others Injured
Near Power Station.
CAR BLO'YN FROM TRACKS

Whlrlwind Of Conclusions Wrecked
Every Winsow Within Two Squares
OF New York central's station In
Gotham-Disaster Caused by Mo-
torman Sending Car Into Pintsch
Gas standplpe, Breaking It and
Permitting Gas to Escape.
New York, Dec. 20.-Ten persons
were killed and nearly 100 we're in
jured by an explosion OF Pintsch gas,
used FOR lighting railroad cars, which
demolished the transformer house of
the New York Centrals power sta
tion vt Lexington avenue and Fiji
tieth street, wrecked the interior OF
the buildings in the neighborhood
and shook the city for half a mile
around as though by an earthquake.
The dead: Nicola Gallucci, 46, a
porter; Joseph Gauthier, %, electri-
clan; Patrick Jordan, 43, foreman;
Virgil b. Livermore, 5S, operating in
spector of New York Central, Brook
lyn; Charles McMorrow, 2s, third
reilman; Edythe Ohner, 80, stenog
rapher; Mary B. Pope, 30 teacher;
Charles Roberts, 3S, express man;
Thomas Stagg, ca, watchman; un-
identified man, about 20, light com
plexion and hair.
4rp11at. pnr which vsoc nnccinU
the power station at the time of the
explosion was blown from the tracks
and several Of its passengers were
killed. The whirlwind of conclusion
broke every pane of glass in build
ings within two blocks of the explo-
sion, tore the sashes from the case.
ments and tossed the inmates about
amid the wreck Of the furnishings.
Scarcely a pane of glass or a win
dow was left intact along Lexington
avenue from Forty-sixth street to
Fifty-second street and in the side
streets as far east as Third avenue.
To the west the force of the explo-
sion, which seemed TO cover a fan
like area to the east, was less felt,
although Archbishop Farley's resi-
denco at Madison avenue and FIT
tieth street was shaken enough TO
break some of the windows.
The New York nursery and chill.
drens hospital, where $50 children
were being cared for, was SO badly
shaken that plaster fell in the halls
and every pane OF glass and some OF
the sashes on both sides of the build
ing were blown in. No one was seri
ously injured. The Bible training
school, which stands nearly opposite
| the demolished power station, lost
all Of its windows and suffered much
damage to the interior from the
blast.
: Earth tremors following the explo
sion we're felt as far south as Forty
second street, where guests in the
/ Manhattan and the Grand Union
were startled by what they thought
an unusually heavy blast of dynamite
in the Central's yards. The noise OF
the explosion was heard in Brooklyn
and by people on the New Jersey
/ ferries.
The tremendous wrecking power
OF the explosion caused a rumor thai
large quantity of stored dynamite
had been set off, but the investiga
tions of the railroad officials, Com
missioner Waldo of the FIRE depart
ment and the police showed tha
Pintsch gas had exploded.
A n otorman employed to shift
cars to the platform where they tool
on their supply of gas from a cement
standpipe, was unable 10 stop his cal
in time, owing to the slippery condi
tion of the tracks, and bumped into
the standpipe. breaking it off. The
gas escaped for several hours, flow
ing under a freight warehouse, where
It was exploded, probably by sparl
from the third rail of the traction
line running through the yards.