The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
DEATH TOLL is
6; INJURED IN
HOSPITAL ARE I
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missing was one of the workers
whose lives were snuffed or crushed
out last night as the "sandhogs'
worked in their compressed air
chamber beneath the river bed,
Garvey Escapes Death.
Another of the men of the Gals
son job, originally listed as missing
James Garvey, of Jersey City-re-
ported to the foreman.
Two bodies were brought out of
the execution department today, D.
Mulloy of Newark, and John Gal
lagher of Brooklyn, and the latter
was so crushed and mangled that
only his brass check, No. 645 told
rescuers who he was.
The Air Line Explodes.
The men were the victims of an
exploded air pressure line. 1t was
only the air pressure which had held
the massive steel box up giving them
an eight-foot clearance to work in.
Only the pressure had kept the ooze
and muck from sucking in from the
bottom. When the pressure failed,
they were caught in brutal vice. At
midnight, the weight of the caisson
had carried the dead men, engineers
reckoned, twenty feet further down
through solid mud.
The list of dead and injured work
ers follows:
The Dead.
BYRNE, John, SO East Fifty-sixth
Street, Bayonne.
HADLEY, Jack, 116 Tonnelle Ave,
Jersey City.
MULLOY, D., SIS Bridge Street,
Newark.
GALLAGHER, JOHN, so Berkeley
Place, Brooklyn.
GALLAGHER, PATRICK E., 934
Third Avenue, New York.
One more, unidentified.
The Missing.
TRACY, W., IA West Eighty-ninth
Street, New York.
HART, JAMES, 400 Communipaw
Avenue, Jersey City.
In Jersey City Hospital.
JONES, PATRICK, foreman, 371
East 204th Street, shock.
BRESLIN, JOHN, Sc West Fifty
second Street, Bayonne, severe
bruises and internal injuries.
DOHERTY, PATRICK, 80 East
Ninety-sixth Street, New York,
fracture of the right leg, internal
injuries and possible fracture of
the skull.
WARNER, FRANK, e33 Ocean Ave,
Jersey City, fracture of right leg
and internal injuries.
MORLEY, DAN, 18 Pearson Place,
Long Island City, Queens, fracture
of bones of right foot.
CARNEY, JAMES, CAT Pavonia
Avenue, Jersey City; internal in
juries and fractured leg.
MULCAHY, JOHN, 443 East 138th
Street, the Bronx; shock and bruises.
Three more men later were re-
moved and the four were taken to
the Jersey City Hospital.
Jersey City police declared that
the rest of the men had drowned.
The negligence of the contractors
stood out as the blame for the
deaths of these workers. In the
hurry to complete the job in quick
time, precautions were simply
ignored, the "sandhogs" said, and
the air pressure line exploded as a
result.
A "sandhog" on the Hackensack
River job, in a letter to the Daily
Worker last week pointed out the
danger of death for these under
ground "sandhogs," as workers who
work in compressed air, in building
tunnels are called. The dangers of
this work were exposed in this let
ter, yet despite the fact that the let
ter was written over a week ago,
conditions remained the same, up to
the very time of the disaster which
killed the six workers.
The letter of the "sandhog" fol-
lows in part:
The "sandhogs" work at building
tunnels, and in all underground and
underwater construction. 1t is very
risky work, as you will soon see.
ITO begin with--let me tell what
happened the other day to a couple
of 'sandhogs" over in Jersey. Two
men employed as "sandhogs" by the
McMullen Construction Co., at work
at Newark Ave. and the Hackensack
River were stricken with the ter
rible "bends" last week. One was
William Lovelace, of Brooklyn, and
the other, Negro "sandhog," Rich
ard Jones. l will tell of this disease.
"Let me describe the work, for in
stance that we did on the new sub
way tunnel under the East River, be-
tween Fulton St., Manhattan, and
Cranberry St., Brooklyn, a job we
finished last Wednesday.
Going Under.
Each morning, when we come to