New York World (Newspaper) - January 28, 1902, New York, New York PALING his John A section named Todd also found dead near the scene of the An unknown man with the name Hine on his clothing died soon after being taken to Bellevue A laborer earned John Weiss was found In the tunnel dead beside his battered dinner A complete list of the dead and injured is given In another Authorities Act An hour after the explosion the authorities were busy trying to lerret out the cause of the Jerome arrived on the scene with a corps of Inspector of the Bureau of Com followed with Fire Chief Coroner Scholer came along with his Then everybody set to work In an effort to find out what had caused the Somebody had In their minds that was Some body had stored 900 pounds of dynamite within thirty yards of two tip hotels and within twenty feit of the public This taken for Jerome hunted for the He was informed that a negro named Hamilton who lived to tell the had pulled the wire for the explosion of a blast just before the was placed under arrest and locked up in the Tenderloin Police Shortl afterward at the request the police arrested Ira an of 27 Washington Shaier is the subcontractor on this Assistant Foreman of 414 West and Foreman of 218 East Forty seventh were also Making Ready for the Noon At 12 oclock the workman along the from street to scrambled out of the excavation and made their way to various points along the to eat their noonday This has been the signal for the explosion of blasts between and streets for some time The residents in the neighborhood and the guests in tne nearby hotels had become used to these It had been rumored in the Murray Hill Hotel that a large quantity of dyna mite was stored beneath the Ml tie shanty at but at no time did this rumor take the form of protest or serious With all the laborers gone from the preparation was made for the usual In the side of the almost in front of the main door of the Murray Hill a hole had been drilled in the This had been selected as the noint for first A negro named Mole appeared with two cartridges of dynamite in his These he gave to Assistant Foreman One stick of dynamite Is the usual charge lor a blast in this section of the McDonald handed Hamilton a negro one of Che cartridges and Jones rammed it in the drill hole as he Had rammed a hundred A short distance away in two earth pockets at the side of the tunnel and under the little on the pavements lay the 900 pounds of dynamite the of a shook through the solid rock and earth exploding the adjoining cases packed in the earth pockets lily the watching H the Hotel a taking a birdseye view of The cafes and billiard rooms were filled with The usual number of pedestrians were passing by To the langum young man leaning over the railing Hamilton Jones called out Better away from m to touch off a The young man needed no further He hustled for the men under No bodies were found near the firescorched Fifty yards away they found Engineer Assistant Engineer Thompson and almost as far in the opposite direction his friend and Fire lines were drawn and squads of police were placed at every street cross ng and around the Then Sheehan and his men waJ through the ruined entrance of the Murray Hill Panic in the Murray The many of them bleeding and were still down the stairways and elevators and stumbling into the street piles Tof plaster and broken cf A dozen but frightened almost out of their minds by the roar of breaking windows and falling were found lying prostrate in their apartments by the hotel employees and the in their the Doors were blown from I ung Father dead mans of A dozen or charge by the for wounded and dr enZ Killed in Bia a guest of the was killed In his He had ap s on the edge of the bed when the explosion The shock n backward and the heavy plastering fractured his skull haplain of the Fire was the first to reach the He found the body half buried under the heavy avalanche ambulances arrived within a few minutes after the id were down to the first floor they wore taken The parlors were converted into temporary hospitals constant stream of them were soon afterward making 1ILL Conservative Estimate Made for The Word By an Inspector of the Building Department Espe Detailed by Superintendent on Cafe Completely at the of twt caught the full force men tile were thrown In all directions with the According to a conservative estimate of the made for The World by an Inspector of the Building assigned specially to the task by Perez will aggregate over This estimate Is condi tional on the fact that a superficial amination of the buildings most effected by the explosion shows no structural In fact can be found under ground in any of the buildings that felt the force of the explosion so much as a bent column or a girder out of The Investigation a loss to buildings of and an approximate loss of personal of about The World called upon Perez Stewart Superintendent of the at the tables literally burled under the beyond the Union Lexington Qo back Go back he they axe going to explode a Wast I dont replied Het them In deference to the young mans he stepped into the hotel In the mean Assistant Foreman had SSto a Place of So had the negro Thomas Tubbs the tunnel I on the wooden shanty directly above store of The assistant was sitting a short distance away eating with the section Palled the Blast Ten seconds of silence Then thinking something vaa came out Trom his place of concealment and approached the Wast hole that Waa begin to run down the tunnel toward his biding Before he could get there the cartridge exploded Then as though waiting for this the entire huge store of dynamite flashed out with a rumble that the out Those on the streets who were not knocked saw a plume of smoke and flame shoot high above the roofs of the lofty and then a noise as of falling A hundred feet In the air sailed heavy planks and timber Flying of window glass hissed and rattled The ground rocked as shaken toy an Hurled to the Men and were hurled to the In all and many of them lay where they had fallen under a rain of broken sand and stones On the side of the tunnel opening in Park between and there was a big pile of This was blown away In every direction like One piece of scantling some ten yards long and four Inches thick hit the cornice of the Grand Union Hotel and stuck there like a great spear until dls lodged by the stick of timber hurtled over the roof of the Eye and Ear Hos and stuck upright into the roof of No 112 East street Two with their drivers dozing on the yards away were At Fortieth street a Sanders was along the pavement tor twenty feet And there were scores of Incidents as striking and unusual From the dismantled from the nearby hospital and along the streets came pries of pain and fright Police and Firemen Rush to the Four fire alaima brought Chief and his and the reserves of the and East Street Police Stations arrived soon after t WE main In the subway was broken and the was 4 f H TJf fireman n s plunged into the t tft i i Panic in Eye and Mar At the Bye and Ear Infirmary the patients were In a panic floor severely One of the He assisted the hotel employees to carry out a dozen morn wounded persons before he would consent to have his hurts dressed General Call for so A y the away before a man ran down toward Third avenue and sent a hurry call to the Flower minute afterward two ambulances standing ready and equipped were clang Many Wounded mate of the losses Stew art at assigned Inspector Nicholas to this Prior to that Stewart had himself visited the scene of the disaster and had personally seen that Unsafe signs had been affixed to rooms where the ceilings were In danger of tumbling Acts Ten minutes after the said Stewart yesterday one of our emergency wagons was on the scene and Inspectors John Peek and Henry Cole had taken charge of affairs so far as this department was After a careful survey of the fleld we failed to find that called for Interference on of the members of this and we have simply left two Inspectors on the ground to report Immediately should there be any signs In any of the build ings affected of weakness qr So far have found nor do we expect Reville went about work for The World In a methodical He started in with the Marray Hill walked from the garret to the waded rivulets of cham pagne and whiskey fn the and then said he was ready to A sim ilar thorough inspection was made of every building In the and his report follows Murray Hill Lasi Murray Hill window cell side marble fixtures and ornaments Grand Union Hotel sashes and Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital practically the only damage Apartment house of Benjamin Fortieth street and Park windows Grand Central blown out and clocks John 7 avenue Windows blown out Charles 9 derbilt de Hoyt real 5 dows Cleaning and Dyeing 8 dows blown James COMPLETE LIST OF THE DEAD AND Continued from First shock and slight of New cut head and ticket Grand Central badly cut by chambermaid Murray Hill cut head and station Grand Central painfully station Grand Central shock and Flower in ticket office Grand Central lace and hands in charge Murray Hlll letter cut face and head cut at Murray Hill JOHN 1 blown across Grand Union 350 a banker and Park thrown the 350 350 350 street Windows blown out damage to store 2000 Mendel Candy 61 Hast dows blown out New York Medical 49 East street Windows blown Childs 47 East Forty second win dows destroyed Office bundling 45 East Forty second Windows broken in 3Z7 and 329 Madison 27 Hotel Windows Twentyseven windows broken in Hotel Windows broken in Lincoln Na tional 40 Easit street Windows 42 Bast Forty second Rossman Ncs 182 East 182 East Jaeger Third avenue and street r Windows smashed and tile pavement up seven ceilings ruined and worth of whiskey James 687 Third glass amd perfumery case Loss on forty private houses be tween and For tieth streets on Park avenue Broken lights and damage to cornices and 300 426 60 175 250 200 760 400 110 CO 155 Total Loss on personal property amid miscellaneous f tal floor while working at desk and cut by hall man Mur ray Hill head and shoulders badly MAX 5 East One Hundred and cuts on head and cut head and face and arms cut hands and of at Grand face hands BENJAMIN Jersey at Grand Union right arm cut by HERMAN East One Hundred and street right arm cut to the 86 Park cut and hotel employee head and face telephone operator at Grand Union head and face may lose cabman hurt about head and at Grand Union face and hands clerk in Grand Central thrown from chair hands It doubtful if the entire number of those injured will ever be many were so slightly cut and bruised that they were not even listed Only those who were turned to the hospitals as seriously hurt are included In Surgeons from the the Mount and the Hahnemann hospital also appeared upon the scene a few minutes after the It was regarded as extremely fortunate that the Madison avenue trolley which passed within a tew feet of the spot where the dynamite was not injured by the One had passed only a minute before and was coming through the tunnel at about street It was that the negro blasters had particular orders to look out cars and see that they were nowhere near when a Wast took place The damage to the the Grand Central the and the private dwellings will probably run the total much above John 8ald ferta he bad not the cause of the and would statement wore ot ft toe yw w STOREHOUSE A GREAT Contractors Ex plosives in Shanties to Raze x To locate the danger points along the tunnel a number of World yesterday the entire City Park to One Hundred and afreet and where the now under way They found that dyna mite In stored to the one the explosion occurred up every part qf the It was of the was lij re fused rta all but one H any being In the hands of the foreman or other trustworthy This contract has been violated Large enough according to the to do weeks blast have been stored at perhaps forty places along the line of h two years Hill Depi TWO MOORE ANT MAID badly out toy They occupied room 337 West Thirtieth Union clerk blown wall and received bad scalp station Grand Central Depot painfully 77 Centre skinned by pieces of 292 East Houston car conductor wrist stenographer at Grand Union Hotel cut on may bellman Murray Hill arms and head out and J Grand Central cut iff and CHARLES S 330 West outs on hands lie UL the largest independent fleet of vessels on the He Is president of the and Iron National Bank and of the Federal Trust and has con with other financial Troys Architect nnd Bis Wife Were Special to Tho and are resi dents of this Mr Is the leading architect of Troy ana has many of the Important buildings They are well known in social Looking for His Brother When Special to Tlhe who was injured inthe New York IB a travelling sales man for a He is a brother of ithe theatrical of this and at the time of the accident was looking his brother In the Grand Shea lives in eight miles from Springfield Jefferson Stanton lived In He a Ibor maker and has a He Is about yeans But has been be low Fourteenth as the rock in the district has been loosened in laying the foundations to large At Four street ana Fourth dynamite Is The out them deep land has ro a amount of but the work has so far that the part Wasting and only small amounts of aire kept In An employee fold re porter of heen there tor the Twent The in of to i done at in the under n car green Just supply I t skull fractured condition WELLKNOWN PERSONS KILLED OR i i Robertson n Oper ator of British Special to Bod killed today in the in Was pne of known He was years old loaves a of the companies in which he was In In despatches received here It Is understood that he planned to leave New York tonight for home and returned to his hotel to pack his lug Bests Widow IB Among the Special to Tho Best Is widow of Clermont and a sister of Mead Tooker a New archi Best is prominently Identified with all the material New and owns a fine at the cor n f avenue and Bellevue resides here at least months In and is a resident of ui One of Clevelands Lending Business n Special to The Jan 27 Gll business s the owner of Christ is one of the men of It BIG HOTEL Benson Brown Thought Would Topple Benson agent for the Acme White Lead Company of ln rock H though e he was going ito topple any room were went When I recovered the rom the found myself entangled in tge tains amd there was vtA apross my riat wla out ln two pieces by a flying piece of I fled from the out in I found dozens of all Two very small with aces all covered with were I helped and several ladies down IN People Out and Women The threw residents in the lower section of Long Island City Into a HOCK SPOILED THE TOAST K on however and frUnS i
