Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-12-22
BUILDINGS THROWN OUT OF
PLUMB OVER A WIDE AREA
Damage from So, 100000 to So 900, 600 Christ
mas Shop Displays Ruined Windows Shat
tered Everywhere Pedestrians Hurled
to Pavement Thrilling Experiences.

New YORK, Dec. lo.-The terrific ex-
plosion OF illuminating gas in the auxiliary
power house at the Grand Central sta
ton which sent a trcmor along the en-
tire rocky back bone of Manhattan this
morning. caused the death of 10 persons
two of them women, the injury If 125
other and property damage estimated
tonight at from So 0ol,0O9 to S3,ooooD.
FIRE broke out in the shattered ruins
Of the power house again late tonight.
but the blaze made little Roadway be-
! fore checked.
!; was n weird scene in ana about the
citation as the night wore on. No add-
| tional bodies were found, but in hos
pital. Guthcr Johnstonc, an electrician.
succumbed to terrible injuries received in
the explosion bringing the death list UP
| TO ten.
-Four workmen. who are missing. are
believed to have persisted and ?S of the
Ia injured were removed to hospitals.
or these. eight may die
An investigation by the police, the dis
trict attorneys office and the coroner
office is under way.
Traffic on the New York Central rail
road ceased entirely for some hours and
y.
1 but the new station itself now in pro-
cess of construction. was not damaged
The dead are: Nicolo Galucci. laborer
, Patrick Jordan, lahorer l.. T.. Liver
more, Pullman car inspectors C. McNar-
row laborer; Edith Offner. stenographer:
Mary b. Pope; Charles Roberts, express
man; Frank Staec. Waterman; John
Ryan, laborer; Guthier tombstone. elect
triCian.
CAR HURLED INTO AN AUTO.
The injured include laborers and other
employees of the railroad, pedestrians. by
ISLANDERS and others in the vicinity Of the
accident. a passing surface car. carry
ing seven passengers, was lifted from IT'S
trucks and hurled into an automobile run
ming alongside. Four of the seven pas
eengers were killed outright but the
chauffeur of the motor car was only cut
und bruised
OF the nearly 100 in hospitals. the fol-
lowing are most seriously injured Tn
identified woman. fractured skull; Michael
Ryan, fractured skull and internal in
iuries; Yetta Abrahamson. fractured
skull and internal injuries; Theresa Lott
man, fractured skull and shoulder John
Kelly. policeman. burned and bruised
John Cunningham. burned; unidentified
man, internal injuries.
For some hours it was believed that
dynamite alone could have wrought such
Instantaneous and pulverz.ng havoc. hut
late in the afternoon Fire Chief Croker
said he was convinced that the whole
explosion was due to "A mixture of all
M
! railroad cars. touched off by an electric
spark. The gas had accumulated in tbs
auxiliary power house from a broker
pipe snapped off by "A runa way passenger
car.
DAMAGE GREATER THAN THOUGHT
Hurried estimates during the day
placed the damage at not more than
half million dollars. but q canvas S
OF the neighborhood showed that few
structures had escaped. Windows
were smashed literally by the thous
nnds and " nice problem is raised as
We the liability Of the insurance com
pa MES under the circumstances. HIND
some residence fronts were decorated
with blankets. sheets newspapers
burlap or old rags as the quickest
lo' "lh"'" glass I"
''N'''"''oHS IL inc h'ishpo'hoo" Ia
hPpe@ieu LOT aIu TO cHe't repairs a"o
oroer VIII no. De restored 10y "eehS
Ihe IlnanE studlos ~ a4'h s'ree'
aEp MaHisoh avenue KUN! hhf MN
from the scene OF me ca,astrophe
suffered valuable stained grass VIII
COWS, valued at $4,000 were smashed
one OF the glass windows was me
mortal piece worth $5ooV. announcer
decorative stained glass WINDOW VI
the far side OF the building from 'h'
explosion was bent outward ana thef
broken. II was worth about S2''oo'
Albert Seaeroatt, the engineer o.
the motor car which broke the pipe
line. was released IN parole to-nigh
Mt the instances of District Attorne!
Whitman, who says there iG no eNl
donce to warrant his being held. /
was the coronerr Office when orde'e'
sea %roaltS "'reN''
GLASS LITTERS Paw EM EMS
The force OF the explosion ran mort
and south for two miles along the rock
, ridge that Is the backbone of the islant