| Show n BIG DYNAMITE EXPLOSION f Now York Jon Jan 27 A quantity of ot dynamite d toted stated In a I temporary structure trl ture ut Fortieth street and lArk avo nue nU Ild and used Ise by b contractors on the rapid transit ll tunnel l exploded today For hours after the lon much contusion existed and c re reports report ports port made HH ilK to thO number I killed The gave out I the of ot J toilet ick Roberts or ur Robinson of Nelson H 11 t C and Jame Carr these It wa Will reported that William Todd a I foreman and an un engineer named Thompson l d been killed and thai onu oM qt thc thu Injured name unknown had died dlen In J Jho hospital ho M her housekeeper of at cJ LO c I lt l li Who was n II guest of ot the tho Hurray Hili hotel was in his lils room loOI when lIon nc lie wa WIH killed A quantity of ot Iron Iton CUlM through the tho window and struck him ue Ill ha hI sat In a n chair At 3 the police pollee department I out a n statement pla ng the number of ot dead by tho explosion at live Ie Of ot those toUt four wore killed Instantly und and one unu man died In III hospital after con COli consultation with Chief Grower Mid ald the tho i explosion was wa duo to tJ tho shook shock of ot a blast on tho tunnel level 1011 This he h said probably produced enough concussion to set lIet oft dynamite lying near the tho com combustible storehouse on the tho street Tho shock of ot tho explosion was tell felt feltIn i iIII In III all 1111 the large arlt buildings In the neigh neighborhood All 11 thi thu windows wind OilS on the south southside side of or the Oran Grand Central station broken as M were Mono tholo In III tho Iho Grand Union hotel the Murray Hill Hili hotel die Manhattan e Ear hospital the hospital for tOl ruptured arid and crippled chil children dren nil all of ot which arc aro near tile the plat the dynamite was stored Every private house In the neighbor nel felt t the shock Lamp posts w ro knocked down pedestrians wore cut by lW falling glass cabmen awl cab horses were er thrown to the tho ground The Murray Hill hotel suffer most of ot nil all the neighboring building Through the windows huge hu e pieces ot timber known knowlI as na beams were sent In as nil If It they the 00 arrows All of ot the workman within several blocks of ot Fortieth street were we hurt Ono One man Hamilton JoneK WM nearly feet tet but was I not killed hut but was badly halIY cut and a few tew of ot the Injured were wc c bad badly badly ly cut cui They were cut ut by b Ila s and wore able to goto 0 to their af nf after nn tel ter their wounds had by lIy sh Jilt to Sell tile IT i 11 nn i f tho Times from Nelson Nehon Il m C CI saya SUH J Roderick Robertson of ot Nelson N U n C who was 18 killed by Ly tiro explosion In New York this morning was the gen Iten general eral In Canada for tor the t U Gold old Fields limited one ot the largest mining companies operating has hns hold held ing in I Columbia M lit In mining and won 00 the prime i In the or org of or the d Ward h ot of g of ot southern rn rl Columbia HL Hi na a Scotchman and 11 a 0 wire ana four children He lIe r cry ery wealthy i |
