The evening world., 1911-08-11
DYNAMITE SHAKES
TOWNS
NEAR AQUEDUCT
Explosion Above Shaft at
Cornwall Felt at Newburg,
Seven Miles Away.
N MAN is KILLED.
Windows Smashed Half Mile
Distant-Workers Living
Near Opening Escape.
ONE A is KILLED.

Dynamite stored Al the mouth or
0Aaft No. Z Of the New York AQueduct.
half Q mile from Cornwall. exploded
early to-day with such terrific force
that Il shook Newburs. seven miles
away. smashed windows In the village
Of Cornwall and cut OF telephone com-
m~unication with the shaft. A mounted
messenger was sent from the police
station at Cornwall to md out what
caused the uphcaval that shook the
countryside like an earthquake.
The Mason Hospital at Cornwall pre-
pared for the reception OF whatever
wounded might be brought. But the
police then learned that although the
families OF the foreign workers who
sv employed at the shaft live herded
about the opening. the casualty list was
composed Of one man.
How tho workers dwelling near the
shaft escaped destruction in 80 violent
an explosion was . miracle that the
police ala not pretend to solve.
The building in which the dynamite
W. AgYt nSiu AsiV pDuttob VI tho OApiV-
sivs. II was totally demolished. A
NUMBER Of shanties In the nsighborhood
we're swept away.
Tho explosion occurred Just . few
minutes before sixteen men were due
TO report for work.
Air PIPE TO MEN IN SHAFT Is
BROKEN.
The force OF the explosion broke the
cir pipe that leads from the surface to
the foot Of the shaft. A force was at
work there. SIS feet below the entrance
and nearly . quarter OF . mile from the
bottom Of the shaft. develo ing the tun
mel toward the Hudson River.
When they found that their entire
supply 1t air had been cut on they
Ned through the tunnel to Shaft No, Z.
where they were taken to the surface
IN elevator buckets.
John Sawyer. the engineer Of the
power house. was hurled twenty feet
Nv the explosion. He was found un-
conscious In the w~rsckaGe. His injuries
sre not fatal
For 100 feet In every direction around
the magazine the trees were stripped
Of their branches. The engine house
wao damaged. but the machinery ss-
capped harm. A brief delay In tho CON
struction work will result.
The shock Of tho explosion was felt
at Matteawan. where the keepers a,
the Hospital for the Criminal Insane had
much trouble In ouieting the inmates
They conceived the idea that the vibrs.
ill., Hvotn thu dvn nita'a Wnrk Waa
really an earthquake and exhibited grest
alarm.
THREE MEN MAY HAVE BEEN
IN MAGAZINE.
4 report. which Is not verified by tn
police who Investigated the trouble. say
three unknown Italians were sleeping Il
the magazine where the dynamite wa
stored. II the report had fact behind
there would be no way TO demonstrate II
because the explosion was 80 great tina
no vestlge would have been left Of an.
person who was In the magazine.
Shaft No. 6 IL half a mile from tn,
village OF Cornwall, and 1000 feet iron
the west bank OF the hudson. II drop
ga feet to Moodna Siphon. which he
leads to Shaft No. 5 at Storm Kin
Mountain. where there is another dro
Of l.l65 feet to the tunne under the be
Of the Hudson. connecting at the eas
bank with B~reakneck Mountain shat
Al the top of Shaft No. 8 10 a sma
power house covering the two buckle
elevators which work on q steel cabl'
nv the magazine. The explosives use
In blasting the unnel through soil
granite have been troublesome from n
beginning OF the work. The depth
the workings and the absence OF draugl
prevt ,ted the dissipation OF the smoi
N the tunnels have never been ei
tirely free from IT,
July q. during a heavy thund,
storm. lightning struck the air ar
steam pipes leading into the shaft. "a
down shaft No, 8. then 1900 feet alor
the Moodna Slphon 10 u point whe
David Emery and homas Brown We
preparing to discharge a blast II
lightning exploded their charge
dynamite and killed both men.