Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-12-19
street CAR
HURLED IN AIR
Drops on Automobile Killing
or Injuring All of Its
Occupants
4 TERRIFIC GAS EXPLOSION
Thirteen Killed, Thousand IN.
jured in Dramatic Catastrophe
in New York City

! New York, Dec. 19.-TwelYe per
/ sons were killed. TWO of them women,
and thirty were injured in double
/ explosion of gas and dynamite in the
new electric power house of the New
York Central railroad this morning.
( The explosion shattered hundreds of
windows in the big hotels and apart.
ment houses of the neighborhOod of
/ the railroad terminal A dynamite
blast picked up the north bound troll
! ley car lifted it in the air and sent
it crashing down upon an automo-
bile which was passing. on the other
side Of the street Four of the pass
engers were killed and every other
person in the car injured The sub
station where the explosion occurred
is located on Fiftieth street and Lex
ington avenue. The explosion part
ly wrecked the fire engine house near
by and prevented the fremen from
getting the apparatus into the street.
MOnsignOrs Lapette and Hayes and
tN'A''lo " Nbil4iDAy -fIlSSudGt, EOluuOBL
and Byrnes of St. Patrick's cathedral,
hurried to the scene and administered
the last rites Of the chagch to the
more seriously injured. At the post.
office substation on Fortieth street
and Madison avenue the explosion
slightly injured several clerks and
threw the mail in all directions. In
the New York nursery and Childs hos
pital, the ceilings We're partly shaken
down and the windows broken but
fortunately none of the three hun.
dred children there were badly hurt
The powerhouse took fire after the ex.
plosion and the interior burned out
Just what caused the explosion prob
ably never will be known. 1t is said
that there were many workmen in
the building at the time and few Of
these have been accounted for.
Hundred Teachers Hurled to Floor
New York, Dec. 19.-In the Bible
teachers training school on Lexington
avenue, directly opposite the power
house, one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
men and women who were on their
way to breakfast, were hurled TO the
floor. Many were injured and then
taken to the hospitals. All windows
were blown in and the ceilings fell.
The damage by the explosion prob
ably will reach half million.
Nine Bodies Recovered.
New York, Dec. 19.-Nine bodies
have been recovered and four work.
men are believed to be buried in the
ruins. At least two of the injured
taken to the hospital will die.
Patrolmen Toomey was on Lexing.
ton avenue when the explosion oc
CURED. Just ahead of him. girl was
Killed, one Of her legs being blown
OF, while Toomey himself was blown
clear across the street and his uni.
form nearly torn from him. He was
padly hurt. A gang of fifty bricklay-
ers, sixty feet in the air, on a big DOW.
ef building near the scene of the ex-
plosion had narrow escape The OK.
plosion hoisted the big scaffold on
which they were working. and tossed
the men over the wall onto another
scaitolding on the inside Only one
man of the gang was injured,
Hurled Through Plate Glass Door.
New York, Dec. 19.-The police are
OF the opinion that the explosion oc-
CURED in some gas tanks which COM
municated it. it is reported to the dv-
Mantle, which one of the officials of
the New York Central said he under.
stood was stored near the power
house. A little girl was about to en-
ter candy store on Fifty-frst street
when the explosion occurred, She
was picked up bodily and hurled
through plate glass door of the store
and dropped in front of the candy
counter. There was not a scratch on
her.
More Than Thousand Hurt.
New York. Dec. 19.-Thirteen per
sons lost their lives, fifty were m.
Jured and a thousand persons badly
shaken up in the explosion of the car
lighting gas tanks and dynamite in
the new six story power station of
the New York Central under course
of construction.
Gas and Dynamite.
New York, Dec. 19.-Fire Chief
Croker says that he believes that the
hrst explosion was that of lighting
gas and a second explosion of hun.
dreds Of pounds of dynamite which
lay within fifty feet of the gas tank.
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