Show JUST LIKE AX AN earthquake long idland city badly Sli shaken alien by da D lo 10 LOG G ISLAND CITY L I 1 dec 28 just in rear of the row of tenements numbered from froin 21 to 29 jackson avenue is the entrance to the tunnel that the now york city long IE ib ladd tunnel company is putting under east river lae between tween the c city ty and the new york central depot the dynamite used in blasting froze last night llight and when the moil men started to this morning they tried to thaw the dynamite out taking three barrels of dynamite they placed it behind ono one of the tenements and built a roaring fire beside it and tho the fire and dynamite were left alone while the men went down the tunnel shaft the file me burned nearer t the he dynamite than had been supposed it would and at 8 there was a terrible explosion that scattered death ana nd destruction aroun around dit it Th the shock was like an earthquake the men in the tunnel were not hurt but persons living in tho the tenements made up tho the list of killed and in injured t I 1 s tho the explosion ion was so terrific th that it nearly avery every building on jackson evenio from fifth street to barden avenue wa des destroyed troyed or badly dam damaged age d the structures include the postoffice post office and sylvesta Syl veska cos factory A fire immediately 4 st a abd 4 in the 14 jd f F W p w many of choso in injured bied t V AS I 1 if hurts by rushing out of tho houses whon when tile tho explosion occurred and boing being struck by falling timbers and other debris tho the shock of tho ox was like nn an earthquake and to add to tho the excitement the aroc took goolt tiro firo and quickly began blazing fiercely the tone monta 21 to 29 jackson avenue are shattered with stores and offices below the lico was in ill no 27 the mails are buried beneath tons of ruins and are corti ail to bo be ruined by water vator if not burned when the ox explosion occurred the letter cases were knocked into strips and the clerks hurled reeling into tho the debris A wave navo of flame to swoop through the lower part of tho the tenements immediately after the explosion plo gion some stunned and blondin blo bleeding odin tenants managed to crawl to the lower windows and make their escape tho the killed wore all in ill their homos near the point of the explosion the fire fireman nian carried out those too badly hurt or too badly scared to move tho the explosion was nas caused by the attempt of work workmen nion to thaw out three barrels of dynamite cartridges with a bonfire in ill lie rear of tile the tenements it i is said the postmaster saved all the valuable letters in the office directly opposite the scene of the explosion Plo siou was a low of tenements occupied by fifteen f families arni lies every apartment was wrecked and the dobris debris immediately caught fire the scene following was terr terrible itle partially clad men iio woman niall and children rushed wildly from every possible exit screaming loudly it is one of the most thickly settled districts in the city for half a mile on jackson and vernon avenues there is scarcely a pane of unbroken glass grays G rays refrigerator friger ator factory on foults street opposite allo scone scene was completely wrecked and a number of employees injured at noon tho the fire was still raging ging in the ruins tile the fire department being totally unable to cope wl with th it five dead bodies anere ere taken from the ruins ruing about fifty persons anere ere wounded many many of them seriously salt lake lahe herald |