The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-20
his EXPLOSION
||lCKS NEW YORK
|Isrt Of Manhattan Island
|a,ksn by Catastrophe Which
Brings Death to Ten.
|pRIS CAR ONTO AN AUTO;
1 SpEARS GIRL WITH J0IST
ag City Streets Transformed
n a Twinkling Into Scene
of Suffering.

|UW YORK, Dec. l9.-The terrific
|,,eacn of illuminating gas in the
hillary power house at the Grand
|r,sl station. which sent tremor
L. tbe entire rock backbone Of
|5.nifan this morning, caused the
|rk of ten persons, two of them
|usn. the injury of l25 others and
rsrty damage estimated tonight at
=. s9.OOO.00O to $4,000. 900.
| 6y broke ont in the shattered ruins
\ a. power house again late tonight.
. With corps of police, searchers
N flremcu on the scene. the blaze
kh little headway before being
Eficd.
/ sss a weird scene in and about
y asiion as the night wore on.
In additional bodies were found, but
4 |, hospital Guthier Johnston. an elec-
su succumbed 80 terrible injuries
|s7sd ia the explosion, bringing the
M list up to ten.
Tear women, who are missing. are
Eksd 10 have perished, and of l25
-rsd. es were removed TO hospitals
! .i@c eight may die. An investi.
"a by the police is under way.
|lh n technical charge of homicide,
police late today took into custody
si Sesarrat. motornau Of train
f,A bumped into and broke one of
rs pines near the sub b-station. Sc
rs said he tried to stop the tram,
J nuld not do so. He said the col
n With the buffer and gas pipes
lirsd a; 1853. and that h. notified
pnpany at that time of the acci-
The explosion came exactly
sir minutes later.
4 iEffir on the New York Central
rad eeascd entirely for some hours
as disorgsnized for the rest of
day. but the new station itself.
ID process OF construction, was not
ag1.
Names Of the Dead.
Es dead; Nicoli Galucci. faborer;
rrtk Jordan, laborer: T.. r. Liver
p Pullman ear inspector; G. Me
i57F. laborer: Guthier Johnston,
relan; Edith Offner, steuogra
5fNSIy 3. Pope of Boston; Charles
1s. eIDressman; Frank Stagg,
az1n; John RYAN. laborer.
y injured include laborers and
g EMPLOYEES of the railroad, pedes-
y bystandcrs and others in the
rfy Of the accident.
pessing surface ear carrying seven
,feTs was lifted from its tracks
sufled onto an automobile run
anngslde. Four of the seven pas
90 we're killed outright, but the
nsur Of the motor car was only
ra bruised. This spot was the
= locus Of death. The seven pas
s Cere dumped TO the underside
ear IN langle Of ironwork.
"a ingments Of rlass and broken
% Mary Pope was caught by the
ce'weeD stanchion and the
Hned automobile and crushed TO
lhree other passengers. all men
gseEwheImed with wreckage. and
@'o'e help could reach them.
Girl Sp ED TO Death.
.saty feet away, Miss Edith Otfner,
an Old steuographer in a mag
Gfues, on her way to work, was
~ through the head by a dying
n policeman Toomey had just
ta' 10 the trolley car TO stop and
I9ug two little girls across the
'Ar% the hand. One was torn from
= ~ BY the first blast of air and
saH BY the rebound.
z ,sse9nd girl, Mary Gilman. II
N.Y. "a, had her right leg torn of by
& M iIagment Of the iron railing
,s'Iounded the station.
4 s'aNen men in fire hose company
2 ,s, we're shaken from their beds.
ssT Shief Duffy was sitting at
~ ~ wnen the windows fell about
s,N % IRON girder burst through
4 ~ ~ shocking him down and badly
u'm' lie got the men to ban.
!. T anu went 10 work imme.
, ~ h' o,o,e ne teachers training school
y s., oy Miss Helen Gould on Lex.
~ ,eaue' fifty young men and
q \. g. ,ele eating breakfast. Those
49, side of the room first real.
N :, ,,ocre mad been serious ac.
z tha' tunsn' on looking toward tbe
n b ue,,e Jaw the napery on the
q bnos the windows dabbIcd
I II, MINI fuliy half the students
r. tls bDl cut by flying glass.
y, And J'es T hospital at Fifty.nintl
.jXs,r. lexington avenue, The in
~ Nm, being given their morpina
81 sb5;a,ses were thrown to the 400,
~ hpueJ ~ ,heir arms, other babio,
y ,stapeo, w. oi their cribS. aud IL
- sat of :. Danies were popped up
- dawn oc,r .ac,r tubs as if they ha,
s forcs "S' oy powerful suction
I satb vi 'he explosion ran nor.l
~. ety ,;5 ono to two miles alon,
tMe i.I,nasc that is the backbon,
ior rSnu, and east and wcsf l.t
Z oUi Yns >, were jarrcd, walls wer,
- 10 by 'lu'nb, windows wcr
~ ~ srashino 'ne thousands. ceiling
"a tsne,tLn u'Wn on the heads o
,s,i 81 siib' and the pavomcnts wcr
~ pr, Wv pu'verized glass,
!, w. s''p'rty Loss Heavy.
x I eomD.ahe ahe New York Centra
y * done ~ includes the physics
ia 'snpIetol,o 70 the power house whic
y siion s ~! wrecked. the dclav +
= E standT10oar, dT1orS and the damage dom
~ n, n2 near ihr nnr-, -
q H Ii the ~ ~ Keepers and propcrt
. suee ~ Vicinity will spread Owe
displays were blown bach