Show H HEAVY r EXPLOSION IN su w r TUN TUNNEL fL fLIt I I It Took Toole Placenta Place at at a Point Beyond Which Trains Trins Arc Are Run Hun 0 FEET FEE BELOW THE SURFACE Train TrIn Took rook Firemen Unable to Get at et the thc Burning Cars Cars New Now York March 29 There w sn s a 0 heavy lavy explosion In the lie subway tunnel nt itt t One Hundred and street reet and Broadway today where tie the tunnel Is feet feel below tIme the surface of at the th street Tire Fire FirE apparatus anti extra police were summoned Tho The explosion took tool place at a I pOint beyond that to which the tle trains are run nt at t present and tear near the th American League Len uc baseball park An uptown subway train which hind had h l been emptied empted of passengers t at One and nl 1 street and nn was wan 11 run Iun to One Hundred and Sixty eighth street Direct to t be Ie switched s across to the tho down town tracks gut got beyond the control of at the motorman and Ind run ran Into a I pile of ot construction material In the Iho theOno theOne Ono One Hundred and amid street station staton The Tho cars ears jumped tho the track tr ck anti and allt caught lo itte It I was I reported that some solos lOo powder POder which thich sus to be used usel In digging the tho tunnel was IS Ignited and ex cx exploded For I or ono come time It was W not known whether or not the train crew had escaped e An attempt was made to operate an sin n elevator running from Crom the tho ho tunnel to tho the street hut but It could coull cou not be moved movel Some of the he em In the tunnel ran through the tube tuba to 10 tho the One OneHundred Onehundred Hundred Hunde amid street sta Ma station tion ton and reached tho the at that point paint The Tho firemen passed pu el hose down town Into the tunnel and Ind fought tho the blaze blazo ot of tho the burning cars i Two hours after ter the th accident the mo mu motorman torman of tho the rubw train had not nt been found It was W S reported that he h hh hail had h I been be n pinned In his hil compartment In Inthe Inthe Inthe the first car r and amid ud Ither died dl by luy I tho the eol col collision lalon or was burned lo 10 o death It I was WB reported that the conductor anti guards Ju rdA of ot the train tr ln and ani a gang of 25 laborers I hoen employed In iii the tunnel hint hod escaped by byway byway byway way of ot the time shaft h tl at It the One anI I street station staton The rite made desperate efforts to get et at nt the burning ears cars at hut wore wera un unable Unable able ablo to do lo so iso 8 as M tho lie tunnel was filled with wih smoke on both sides Ahles of at the sin sta Inn tion where the accident occurred and andall nil all I they could do was M to pour water wal r In Indiscriminately Into tho ho tunnel In tho hope of flooding the tie tire lire lre It wal was ascertained that bitt the train had hall run ran r a heavy helvy bulkhead of ot pine which had been heen built buit across tho the tunnel and that hut the lie wood was wn set on tire atter ater the c lAlan n There wore were two explosions said laid to have been of dynamite le cartridges dJu used u ed In blasting Subsequently It was wal ascertained Mc that tile the mortorman n escaped uninjured I |