A Catastrophe in Hester Street
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.
- Genre: Comedy, Action, Horror
- Studio: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- Keyword: new york city, dynamite, explosion, drunk, severed leg, industrial accident, manhattan, new york city, downtown, severed arm, lower east side, practical special effects, maimed
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