A Catastrophe in Hester Street (1904)

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.

• Release Date: 1904-01-12
• Runtime: 0h 2min
• Production Company: American Mutoscope & Biograph
• Production Country: United States of America