BIG EXPLOSION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 21 December 1910, Page 5

BIG EXPLOSION.

CAiSLE_NEWS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

POWER STATION WRECKED.

THIRTEEN KILLED AND FIFTY INJURED.

Received Last Night, 5.35 o'clock. ' NEW YORK, December 19. Thirteen persons were killed and fifty injured by an explosion at the six-storey power station of the New York Central Railroad Company at New York.

CAUSE OF EXPLOSION. (Received Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.) NEW YORK. December 20. The explosion was caused through the igniting of gas tanks and dynamite. GRAPHIC DETAILS. A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT A QUARTER OF A MILLION. (Received This Morning, 1.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, December 20. One hundred and twenty-five persons wove injured in the explosion, several fatally. Ninety-eight have been admitted to the "hospital. The accident was due to a train of empty cars wrecking the gas-pipe at the rear of the buffer-stop. The gas accumulated, and exploded through its being accidentally ignited by an electric spark.

A trolly-car and automobile were hurled together by tho force of the explosion. Pour of the hitter's passengers were killed instantly. A stenographer was speared through the head by a flying timber joist. ' A policeman, was leading two little girls across the street. One was torn from his hand and. hurled for yards. The other's leg was cut off by flying iron. The tables of a teacher's training school were spotted with blood blown up from the street. Babies were flung out of their baths in a Baby's Home in the vicinity of the explosion. Thousands of windows were wrecked.

The firehouse collapsed, the powerhouse was wrecked, and cars -were smashed. The damage will probably be a quarter of a million' sterling.