The Evening Herald

SAFE BLOWN OPEN.
Burglars Attack the Schuylkill Traction Company's Safe.
Special to Evening Herald.
GIRARDVILLE. Mar. 5.-At about half past two o'clock this morning burglars got into the office of the Schuylkill Traction Company at this place and succeeded in getting $300 in cash by blowing open the safe.

The force of the explosion was so great that it shook the buildings in the neighborhood and greatly alarmed the occupants. The explosive was introduced through two holes drilled in the top of the safe and the charge was such a heavy one that it blew the door of the safe clean from its hinges and across the room, shattering the office door. Every pane of glass in the five windows of the office was shattered and the street was covered with the pieces of the panes.

The money taken represented the railway fares collected by the company on Saturday.

There is no clue to the burglars. A woman residing in the neighborhood said that after the report of the explosion she saw six men make their escape through one of the office windows. but she can give no description of any of the men.

Among those who heard the explosion was John McKernan. who lives near the Traction Company's office. He hurried to the house of Chief Burgess Cress. a few doors above, and was joined by that gentleman and Crawford Benny, an employee of the company, and the trio entered the building at the first floor. They found the office In the condition above described.

There were two holes in the top of the safe which had been made by a 3/4-inch bit. Only one of the holes had been drilled through the safe top. They were about four inches apart. Thirty cents in currency and a lot of old papers were found on the floor of the office.The burglars are supposed to have entered the building through a second story back window and by climbing over a shed.

They made their escape through a back window on the first floor.

The McKernan family and a young lady visitor named McGuire, of Pottsville, were seized with violent vomiting after the robbery and it is supposed they were chloroformed by the burglars before the latter entered the Traction Company's building next door. The shock from the explosion is supposed to have revived them.