Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — EXPLOSION COSTS SIX LIVES. [ARTICLE]

EXPLOSION COSTS SIX LIVES.

Bad Accident Occur* in the New York Rapid Transit Tunnel. By an explosion of nitrogelatin meant for use iij the rapid transit tunnel at Forty-first street and Park avenue, New York, the hotels, hospitals and other buildings “in the immediate neighborhood were wrecked. Six men were killed and a hundred men, women and children were injured. The loss to property cannot Well amount to less than $1,000,000. Besides the appalling list of those who were attended by physicians and whose names were given to the police, there were hundrds of others, many of whom were slightly cut by fragments of falling glass, and, after attending to their wounds in drug stores, went to their homes. A great many went on trains from the Grand Central station all over the country. The exact number of the hurt will never be known. Fortunately the explosion occurred at the noon hour. Not more than a hundred persons were in the main waiting room of the Grand Central station-. The Grand Union Hotel and the Murray Hill Hotel lost all of their windows and glass partitions, and practically every front window in the Grand Central station was shattered. The great clocks on its front towers were blown from their cases. After the explosion the Grand Central station presented somewhat the appearance of a dismantled castle, with the big windows only ragged holes. Thousands of windows, some of them seven blocks from the shaft, fell in fragments. It was the shower of hpoken glass and falling debris that injured the greatest number.