HUGS DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 7 May 1907, Page 4

HUGS DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

MiBXKiIJT PANIC IX XEW YOSK. 100 TONS 01.' EXPLOSIVE FJKED. New fork, Jfireh .1. Tlie entire area of greater New York iiiml the adjacent towns within a radius of twenty miles were violently shaken shortly after midnight this by a dynamite explosion which occurred at the mouth of the Pennsylvania Railway's tunnel at Home-lead, \ew Jersey. So alarming,' was vile, shock Unit, tinest in the Uniadwny restaurants left (he snpp-r tables in a panic, and rushed into the s'.reet, while in the Riverside Oriic. as well as in the lower sections of the town, scores of people hurried in their ni K ht attire into the open, believing tha; the productions ot the seismo. Ki'iiphers were fnlliiied, and that th" fate of San Francisco ami Kimrslonhid overtaken New York.

On I heolher side of the Hudson a terrible state of alarm prevailed, in Hobokcn and Nek Jersey City the streets were thronged with' panic-trick-on people, whom the shock had aroused from slumber. Manv of them were (brown out of their 'beds by the force of flic concussion, which broke thousands of windows in botli (owns. .Meanwhile the ambuliincs and police reserves were hastening (~ the small town of Homestead, the actual scene ,;;' file explosion.

It was discovered that an Italian workingman had dropped hot ashes on « c.ise of dynamite, igniting the entire magazine of over a hundred tons which he railway company had established at the mouth of tin; uimiel for Ida-tin" purposes.

the Italian was blown to atoms and lour others were dangerously injured !'•'<■' K»ng of a hundred „„.„ irking m the tunnel escaped as by n iniricl- '>'''« explosion tore an enormous hole in* iHe ground and completed wrecked the power station and dozens 0 f business structures in the vicinity of the tunnel