The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-19
Buildings in Vicinity of New
York CentraIS New Pow
der House We're Shattered,
While Windows for a Wide
Distance We're Smashed
and People Were Hurt.

New York, Dee. l9.The magnificent
new powerhouse of the New York Cen
tral Railway company at the corner Of
9Th street and Lexington avenue was
completely wrecked by an explosion this
morning, and the number Of killed is
estimated by the police to be at least
% and perhaps as high as so. In addi-
ton, $50 people We're injured, according
to the information now available.
The estimate of the dead made by the
police is thought by many to be exag-
gerated At any rate, nine persons are
known to be dead and many more are
missing. The explosion occurred at s:l5
o'clock just at the outset of busy day
when the buildings were occupied by
many people and there were crowds in
the vicinity.
1t was the most terrific explosion in
the history of New York, and the con-
cussion broke windows within radius
of a. dozen blocks, whole buildings sur
rounding the wrecked structure were
shattered. The explosion actually oc-
CURED in the milk depot and carpenter
shop OF the New York Central Rail-
way company, but the force was so ter
rife as to practically demolish the New
York, New Haven & Hartford's new
,,axvsrhotsa aIao
Electric Car Blown Off Track.
The force of the explosion was so
great that an electric car which was run
ming on Lenox avenue, block away
from the center Of the disturbance, was
blown Off the track and onto a passing
automobile. The automobilist was hurt
in the collision The st. Patrick's
cathedral paroehial school was nearly de-
molished, and several children in the
school were hurt. The building of the
Bible Training school was damaged, and
all the windows in the structure were
broken The foundations of these build
ings were damaged, and the city build
ing department sent an extra force of
men to reinforce the buildings so that
the magnitude Of the catastrophe would
not be increased.
Every Ambulance In City Called.
Every ambulance in the city was
called to the scene of the disaster, and
the injured were hurried to the hospitals
throughout the city. While a great
many people we're injured, hundreds
more had miraculous escapes from death
or injury The Children's Mercy hos
pital was damaged, and the flying glass
cut as many as fifty of the children in
the building. Cool nurses prevented the
children from rushing into a panic. A
public school nearby was in line of the
force Of the explosion, but as few of
the scholars had arrived, a panic here
was averted. If the accident had hap
pened a few minutes later l,500 Cath
ollie school children would have been in
the parochal school, and hundreds of
them would undoubtedly have been
killed. As it was. several boys who
We're standing in front of the building
were knocked down,
So great was the shower Of glass from
the buildings in the vicinity that a po-
liceman by the name of Kelly was killed
by the flying pieces.
Jersey City, Dec. l0.--The fire in the
Hudson and Manhattan tunnel railway
powerhouse stopped the entire tunnel
system Of New York and New Jersey
to-day, There was the fiercest crush in
the history of the city and the police
were called to check violence.