Gas Explosion Tears Through City Power House
A railway yard blast caused by a gas leak from a broken 2 inch main followed a runaway car crash. The explosion ripped a two mile path, killed several, injured many, and damaged power facilities. Fire Chief Croker and officials traced the cause to air mixed with illuminating gas, ignited by an electric spark.
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Croker
Island
John J. Quinn
Lexington Avenue
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Waldo
Multiple Dead and Wounded in City Car Crash
Four of seven passengers died in the crash while the chauffeur escaped with cuts and bruises. About 100 people were hospitalized with severe injuries including two with fractured skulls, others with head and internal injuries, burns, and bruises. Named injured include Michael Ryan Yetta Abrahamson Theresa Lottman Francis Kelly and John Cunningham.
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Michael Ryan
Yetta Abrahamson
Theresa Lottman
John Smith
Francis Kelly
John Cunningham
Mary B Pope Killed in Lexing ton Trolley Explosion
Miss Mary B Pope 38, a private kindergarten teacher in New York City, died yesterday in the Lexing ton trolley car explosion that wrecked the New York Central power house. She was en route to Ashmont to join her mother for Christmas dinner at 1147 Adams street. Her mother Mrs Caroline D Pope and sister Mrs Hedges of Weymouth survive. Pope previously lived in Dorchester and was well known in Ashmont.
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Providence
Mary Pope
Edith Ostner
Toomey
Mary Gilman
Lexington Avenue Station
Mary B. Pope
Lexington Avenue
New York
New York Central
Adams Street
Ashmont
New York City
Caroline D. Pope
Miss Pope
Hedges
Weymouth
Dorchester
Henry Pope
Pickpocket Nathan Sugarman Sentenced to Two Years
Nathan Sugarman, 26, was yesterday sentenced to two years in the House of Correction for pocketing $175 from Stephen L. Price on the Dover Street elevated platform.
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Nathan Sugarman
House of Correction
Stephen L. Price
Dover Street
Sugarman
Explosion terror hits New York power house area
After a devastating blast the cathedral district felt the shake from a power plant explosion. Children from St Patrick's school and 150 babies and 50 maternity patients faced danger, with injuries including a girl losing a leg. Fire crews and police rescued workers while clergy aided the injured.
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Albert
Seagroatt
Frank Smith
Duffy
Bible Teachers’ Training School
Helen Gould
Babies’ Hospital
59Th Street
Albert Seagroatt
George Lavelle
Guy W. Culgin
Forty-ninth Street
William A. Withall
Railroad
Withall
Power House
Pictorial News
Ireland
Coats
Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W. L. Douglas
Unitetates
W.t
Mother
Chase & Sanborn
Seal Brand
St. Patrick’s Cathedral School
Cathedral
New York Day Nursery
Children's Hospital
Fifty-first Street
Brooklyn
Fiftieth Street
Father Brown
St. Monica’s
East Forty Seventh Street
Cece
Victor II
Victrola
Victor
Victrolas
Talking Machine CO
Tremont St
Boston
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