TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIII, Issue 14380, 21 December 1910, Page 5

TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.

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MANY KILLED. GRUKX AIE INCIDENTS. Press Association—By Tel. —Copyright. NEW" YORK. D.v. 1!>. Thirteen. persons wer-e killed an-.l fifty injured by an explosion of gas tanks and dynamite in the six-stor.-y power Station of the New York Central ■ Railroad at New York. Received 1.5 a.m., Dec. 21st. NEW YORK, Dec. "20 By the explosion. 123 were injur d, several fatally: 9.S were admitted to tie hospital. Tho ace.deiit was due to train ol empty cars wrecking a gaspipe. Tl:-e gas accumulated and was explode;! j by an accidental electric spark. I A trolly car and an automobile were hurled together by the force ol' the tspiosiou and tour of the laiters passengers were killed instantly. - A stenographer was speartd through j the head by a living timber joist-. • 'A P-il'.ecr.tan was "leading two lif.Te I girls across the street. One was torn I from his ha-nd and hurled yards, the other had a leg cut off l>y (lying iron. The tables of the Teachers' Trainine: School were spotted with blood bloivn tip from the street. Babies were flung out of their barbs in the liabios' Home, in the vicinity of the explosion. thousands oi windows were wrecked. I [ the iiro-honse rollan-ed and the power I house was wrerked and cars smashed. j Ihe damage is probably a quarter of j a. million sterling.