Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. [ARTICLE]

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION.

At 8 o'clock Wednesday morning dynamite exploded in the yards of the New York Tunnel Company, on Fourth streot, between Vernon and Jackson avenues' Long Island City, L. I. So far as learned three persons were killed outright and a score of persons injured. The people living near where the explosion occurred wero startled shortly after 8 o'clock by the noise of falling timbers and tho cracking of glass. For a squaro around the ground quivered, buildings swayed to and fro, and the terrified people rushed out of tlieir houses, fearing tlieir homes wore about to collapse. The houses adjoining the tunnel company’s yard caught fire, and the entiro fire department was soon upon the scone. Those in tho vicinity at tho timo of tho explosion say the shock which followed was like an oarthquake. Directly opposite the scene was a row of tenements, occupied by fifteen families. Every apartment was wrecked and the dobris caught lire from the overturned stoves. The seene following the explosion was terrible. When tho oxplosion occurred all tho workman wero in the tunnel except an Italian who was placed iu charge of the dynamite a tho head of the tuunc]. It is believed lie was blown to pieces None of the man in the tunnel was injured.