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Catastrophe in Hester Street  (1904)


6.0|12 Jan, 1904|2 min
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Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro powder, causing an explosion that wrecks the block and blows off the vendor’s arm. A policeman shows up to the carnage and tries to replace the vendor’s arm with a severed leg.
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Keywords
new york city
dynamite
explosion
drunk
severed leg
industrial accident
downtown
severed arm
lower east side
practical special effects
lower manhattan
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