New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1926, Page 14

- EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1926. ted 20 P—In- the | Lvery kind and varicty of song med to be on the program, and iy it became a matter of in: terest to note which particular sort went over hest. Right here comes "ot ckier: The two ultra-moderns “% —Richard Strauss and Claude De- —landed the blue ribhons. The aendehen,” with a vitri- animent in the finest of t Danbury, Conn., De tigation into the oauses Of ck of a freight train on the c\,n-‘ tral New England raliroad at Town- ., N. Y. 15 miles west of mui 18 INJURED WHEN POWDER BLOWS UP Train Load Explodes—Two. i " Houses Demolished 5" Wik v i o {the fire that spread to a car | powder in the huge heap of wrecked | West Paterson, N. Y., Dee. 20 (P— | cars, is definitely known yet. | Eighteen person wera injured, two | Reports from the hospital in this houses demolished and several dam- |city and from Towners todgy in- aged, an! portions of freight caps |dicate that mono of the persons in- 3 g {jured tn the explosion was seriously | and their contents hurled a QUAarter |y . mpginmaster H. A. Christinger, | the explosion of 300 |6t Hopewell Junction. Y. who | kegs of black powder in one of 25 |was believed to have received seri- York, New Haven |ous internal Injuries, is said today to ilroad frelght train |be recovering. His chief injury is| sterday on the Cen- |the fracture of two ribs. nd. The three patients in the Danbury : injured were train- | hospital are doing well. The ma- here residents of this | jority of the other persons injured o scvere was the explosion 1o shock of the exploslon or | that the shock was distinctly felt at | ficeing debris are belng treated at, Danbury, ¢ 18 ‘miles from here, | (heir homes, in Towners, for cuts, while at Bri port, Conn., and at i concussion and nervous Poughkeepsie a trace of the resulting | ghoo 1. Lundie, a railroad tremor was reported. ho is at his home in this Raymond Rogers, ttered ear drum. Rundell, 67, and C. It Lundie, con- | \yrecking crews from Danbury, ductor o th L train, were taken to New Haven and Maybrook, N. Y., Danbury hospital for treatment. The lept at the work of clearing the ing"” from. ishgck and wrecked cars from the tracks! tions, were given treat- |y Loy enout the night, huge bonfires ! ra'in he middle of tne |KINAlCd from plies of wreckage eiv- | Gorailed shortly _after |INE the workers a measure of relfef | in such a manner that abour [1OM the (ol i) o coull not he removed shen SOFM during the night hampered | broke out an.hour later. The 'h® operations somewhat. | of linsoed oil, The wreckers eucceeding In eut- ter provented the two [Ing a path throngh the wreckage rtments from subdu. about 2 o'clock this morning and s. Eleven ¢ at the trains are moving past the scene of | and 13 at the rear ok today. A huge mass of e \ led out danger before the ed steel. scorched by fire and | may be | Y : ; | fire reached that in which was the cxplosion. a patch of woods at the | powder One of those which could west of the track, torn and twisted not be mo- d contained gasoline, but |a« from the effects of a raking gun- | this was drained before the flames | fire, and farmhouses with chimneys reached it one, roofs smashed and windows Conducior Lundie injured and doors missing mark the scene of n the top floor of the farm house 'the explosior m which he was telephoning col- as the powder exploded. A stove in one of the demolished hous FOR YOUR WANTS | 2 window | it in the vard, i still burning. X 500-p of a steel car was hurled 1. H n a quarter of with debris. At MISS LEWIS SINGS IN COLD THEY But Audience Is Warm to Metropolitan Star's Program city yesterday, and the explosion that injured 18 persons and damaged fon houses within & radius of a half | olic accomy ed by Lester Hodges ist, got stirring w: Debussy’'s “Fantoe same scintillant p ree harmon the accompan- s of applanse; was of the the tatto uating the Straussian idioms, wonderfully p!a)’-‘ | in mink, bare to would have print upon Capltol thea afternoon She went no { cuse herselt 1 shaw of no s from ke ma act, a little of sct and provoca- A Metro Leve ability as a s well as a sing- he dwset » an encore, weaquty do but ichorean | nd thus, . win an of a mile by e waltz \earg on a New jand Hartford chilly audience and rigors re Aluska befo; 1 to tha blasts § waltz apart on the i ‘twere a ps it was in a way— music. regardless of ¢ too famillar or | fiss Lewis did high D, or E long as does — in overcoat m Jortc In the basement—or wherever it is that they t for the the -working but he 13 and 8 B.| s hadn't started time the concert waves were pouring torium. Except for this little di oncert, which was 1 ®eason's artists series the New Britain M fairly successful. 1T not pa the first floor; and tak sideration that a Christmas is not ideal for co giving, the result was hearten the club—une: it »dded, as the advance had been slim, pursuant to New Britain's custom of not getting s in advance if it appears possible to &=t them at the door. The singing of Mary Lew a fov. For most of the afternoon she held herself in restraint, displaving & masterly legato rather than color- ature calisthenics. She could croon a soft web of tune into a lullaby that made her listeners feel as hap- py as when they sat on mama's knee and listened in rapture Gradually, however, she scaled loftier heights, and those who like the top notes got a few before the concert was over. Her finest treasure Hes in her middle register, however— and that is superb. was over v nto the Twelve ¢ train were companime Easthop. 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