New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-26
FIVE MEN SOUGHT
In SUBWAY BLAST
Car Union Denies Part in
Bomb Plot That Wrecks
Station

OHcial. Of the Amalgamated Union
Of Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes were emphatic last night in
denying any responsibility by the strik-
ing car men in the bomb explosion in
the 10th Street station Of tbs LenoI
Avenue subway early in the day.
A high power dynamite bomb. tucked
under the edge Of the platform beside
one OF the rails Of the southbound
track, exploded at 4:l a. m. 1t
gouged hole in the solid concrete and
steel platform and the roadbcd, shat
tered every pane OF glass In the sta
ton and many in its vicinity. Four
persons were injured, though not seri-
ously. Traffic was halted an hour. The
bomb went of two minutes after a
train had passed.
l. r. T. Accuses Union
Interborough officials stated It wa,
deliberate effort on the part OF
strikers or their sympathizers TO wreck
a train and tie up the Lenox Avenue
division indefinitely.
William B. Fitzgerald, general or
ganizer of the Amalgamsted and chic!
spokesman for the strikers, character
lied the incident as deplorable and re-
scented the charges Of the traction men
He pointed out that ne had been a foe
OF violence throughout the strike.
The police investigation centres on
the finding Of FIVE men whom John Nit
tledauf, an ice man, of lis Manhattan
Street, asserts he saw dash from the
southern exit of the station and fee
into Central Park few minutes before
the detonation shook the neighborhood
The bomb was placed at the downtown
end of the station. Police note also
has been taken of the presence of sew
eral I. w. ". leaders in New York
who arrived recently from the West
The remaining theory is that the ex
plosion is the work OF a fanatic who
dropped the bomb from the rear OF
train.
Charles Eckart, OF ST. Cortland
Avenue, The Bronx, the ticket agent
was hurled through the door OF his
booth and landed ten feet away be
meath a pile of glass and plaster Louis
Lefari. Of % West 1llth Street. the
ticket chopper. was knocked down.
Messenger Hurled to Rails
Gelsey Garvey, Western Unior
messenger, of 11S East 1920 Street
apparently was the only person IN the
station at the time. He was thrown
from a bench on to the track. Otls
Williams, of 1888 Madison Avenue. was
going down the steps Of the llOtf
Street kiosk when the blast came. lie
received a wound on the knee.
when that bum went oil, he said
az led the procession out"
Several persons were hurt in the az
ternoon, when two men. believed 70 be
strikers, leaped aboard a Lexington
Avenue trolley, and jerked the con
troller into full speed as the car was
going down the hill between Seventy
fifth and Seventy-sixth streets. The
car collided with another trolley al
the bottom Of the hill.
Two persons were injured when
Twenty-third Street crosstown car and
a Fourth and Madison Avenue trolley
collided at Twenty third Street and
Fourth Avenue. Martin Risnik, mo-
torman of the Twenty-third Street car
who was injured seriously, was served
with a summons while In Bellevue for
disregarding traffic regulations. He Is
alleged TO have started the car after
the other car had been given the sig
nal to proceed.
Mary Graft, a dressmaker. Of 232
East Fifty-sixth Street, sustained in
ternal injuries.