Show NY TUNNEL explosion CAUSES DAMAGES SIX LIVES LOST BY THE DISASTER AND A HUNDRED PEOPLE INJURED murray hill hotel wrecked by ton of flynne dearle and ie abandoned explosives at the month of tunnel cause the disaster ration will be held to responsibility for the the reserve supply of high ex P 1 orives stored at the park avenue 0 the rapid transit tunnel anew york city now in course of construction st blow up shortly after noon monday the g ant blast killed six persons injured a hundred others and seriously damaged all the property reached by the flying debris and the vibration of the shock the irregular square formed by the murray hill hotel on tl e west the manhatten eye and ear hospital and the grand union hotel on the east and the grand central stat on on the north was the scene of the on the buildings named austn ned the great et damage but the area extended for several blocks in the four directions from the center the killed are avrus adams gar man at the murray aill hotel james carr 32 years old a waiter employed at the murray hill hotel lawrence hine 20 years old of auson a conn J roderick robertson of nelson a guest at the murray fiill hotel john ralph as slant engineer J roderick Rober lson of nelson was killed by debris hurled with the force of artillery into his room at the murray hill hotel he was gen oral manager in canada for the british columbia gold fields company limited and a prominent citizen in the corn where he lived he was a Sc othman and leaves a widow and four children the sunken approach to the street railway tunnel used by the madison lines cuts through park alenne and the shaft of 11 e rapid arans t subway was run down bes de it at the inter faction of east bourth street the street rail vay ap was housed over w th a lupei structure used for the nc plant of the rapid tran sit contractors buildings for storage purposes were thrown up against the superstructure at the mouth of the shaft and there the ex on occurred it tore a great gorge in the street demolish demo lisl ed the temporary b gidings and part of the superstructure and sent a mass of earth splintered kioa hers and t aisted iron high in the air much of it went battering against the front of the murray fiill hotel and although tl P walls ai d main structure of that bu id ng blood tl e shock near ly overy 1 oom in tl e front of the house wa wrecked the damage may exceed 81 the farst estimate of the damage to th murray fiill hotel places tl e loss at but later tie hotel was abandoned as unsafe if the building i i condemned tl e loss on it alone will approximate 1 ahe cause of the explosion is un known |