GREAT EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1005, 21 December 1910, Page 5

GREAT EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK.

THIRTEEN KILLED OUTRIGHT PEOPLE AND VEHICLES HURLED ABOUT IN STREETS. BUILDINGS COLLAPSE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

New York, December 19. Thirteen men were killed and. fifty injured through an explosion igniting the gas tanks and dynamite in the six-story power-station of the New York Central Railroad at New York. (Rec. December 21, 1.5 a.m.) New York, December 20. One hundred and twenty-five persons were injured by the explosion, several fatally, and, 98 were admitted to tlio hospitals. The accident was due to a train, ol empty, cars wrecking a gaspipe at the rear of a buffer-stop. The gas accumulated and was exploded by an accidental electric spark. A trolly car and an automobile were hurled together by the force of the explosion, and four of the letter's passengers were killed instantly. A stenographer was speared through the head by a flying timber-joist. A policeman, leading two little gills across a street, had one torn from his hand, and hurled some yards away. The other child's leg was "cut off by a piece of "flying iron. 'The tables of a teachers' training school in the vicinity were spotted with blood blown up from the street. Babies were flung out of the baths in the Babies' Home in the vicinity of the explosion, and thousands of windows were wrecked. The fire-house collapsed, and the powerhouse was wrecked. .Many cars were also smashed, and the damage will probably amount to a quarter of a. million sterling.