A Catastrophe in Hester Street (1903)
A Catastrophe in Hester Street (1903) - Comedy Movies 2 minutes. . 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 vendors arm. A policeman shows up to the carnage and tries to replace the vendors arm with a severed leg. new york city, dynamite, explosion, drunk, severed leg, industrial accident, downtown, severed arm, lower east side, practical special effects, lower manhattan, maimed
