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i. THE WORLD: TUESDAY BVENING, JULY 96, 1909. Meee en snd TERRIFIES WOVEN REVERENT THRONGSKNEELINSTREET ICEPRFT AGENTS — —— "| @reat Demonstration of Ales i als Over Death of Old ra { AND PLOT AND Josephs, Head of Orihodox Jews of the World. |Captain Vredenburgh Declares Murderers Executed Conspiracy of Sicilian Society. Cabman in Front of the| Grand Central Station Hurled from His Seat —Laborers in Exeay tion Knocked Off a Ledge. ' Patrons of the Murray Hill and Grand Union Again Panic Stricken When Stones Crashed ‘ Through Their Win- ‘ dows. | was cutand his shoulder was brul Dr. Hogan, of the w York H | pita!, attended to several women who fainted in the Grand Central jon. #4 ‘Another accident was added to-! i “day to the series resulting from Ey. the rapid transit tunnel work in} the neighborhood of Forty-see- 8: HIS SON IS THREATENED. Wo In Car Pa ¢ Stricken, Dr. Doremus, of Flower Hospital, had his hands full taking care of a/ Madison avenue carful of hysterical | women, The car was turning the curve into Forty-second strect at! the moment of the explosion, and! the motorman was so frightened | Scene of the Explosion at 4ist 6¢./ that he turned off the power and = =e — | jumped. | 603 West Fifty-fifth street, were at] scenes in the Murray Hill and work in the southwest corner of the |Grand Union Hotels were reminiscent excavation, a full block away from] of that awful morning early in the the blast. year when the mid-section of the city Banana Peddler’s Cart Re- garded as Important Clue, but Italians Are Afraid to Talk for Fear of Vengeance, ond street and Park avenue. | Five men were injured by the | premature explosion of a blast in _ the excavation at the southwest corger of the thorougifares men- “The investigations I have made so far lead me » the velief that Catania was ‘illed for a purpose, the his “ayers were tne instruments of & eecret society and that if the murderers are ever found it will be the unfclding of a consp!racy, deep laid and well execu.” tioned, and everybody in the sur- rounding territory was panie- stricken. | THE INJURED. | FORBES, HARRY, cabman. head From the best information pro-|was rocked by a powerful explosion 5 , C&t and shoulder braised. curable it is supposed that the dozeo|o¢ dynamite at Park avenue and That was the way “-nt. Vreden- i GUITAENI, | )>0PH, laborer, cuts} men under Rot.. were on thelr way} Forty-first street. Guests piled down | burgh expressed himself on the case i? and bruises. Bellevue Hospital | to the street when the man in charge} the stairs and ran into the streets) of the Italian groce. of Columbia ; ROTH, FRANK, head d . set it off, and employees fled from their posts. ! street, whose mutilated boty was found sewn in a zack on the shores \ ‘At any rate they were on a ledge} Byerybody who was able to run fled from the Grand Central Station, ; and restaurants along Fort bottom of the hole and some of them | fot Wore emptied of patrons before were climbing a ladder, the echo of the blast had died away. ‘The force of the explosion threw] ‘The reserves from the West Thir- four of the men from the ledge. They | tieth and Bast Thirty-fifth tre | sail who) sustalned’ ‘a trace | tons were ordered to the|scene)to were: ELOtn) GwO) Bis C handle the great crowd attracted by tured skull; an unidentified negro] the noise. and two Italian laborer taent and Joseph Vouci was injured internally and Voucat’s| tains Delan| head was smashed. It is feared that | they were un 603 West Fifty-fifth s: fracture of the Bellevue vspi VOULAT, 4 Mulberry street Bellevue Hos UNIDE NEGRO LABOR: | » SR, revere internal injuries, Belle- e | vu: Hospital. | j The excavation in which the } sion accurred is reventy-five de eet, depressed skull, probabiy fatal. of Bay Ridge last week. Capt. Vredenburgh is commander of the district in which Catania lived and in which a large Italian settle- ment makes its home. But the head- quarters detectives have not con- sulted Capt. Vredenburgh, and the re- ‘ sult is that the poice are divided with a numbc- of different bodies worki.g on the case. Each is work- of rock about twenty feet from the laborer, No. 240 rises, head cut, Joseph Gul- Blast Not Blanketedt The negro} No arrests were made. Police Cap- | y and Sheehan said that) He to fix the blame as| RABBI JACOB JOSEPHS AND THOSE WHO ARE PAYING HIM A LAST HOMAGE. |ing Independently and the same 4 that the blast was not properly blan- keted—that Is, sufficient weight was|of the Ortho hotels and fright-| not put on the surface to prevent the| werld lay dead. propulsion of stones by the force of| fon stood ~“ith their hats on and ; anc to this is due the fact that the Peter Fol the foreman in Beemer cone) (Wes) mot rabre, wide: Roth's injuries will prove fatal. All| charge of the work for the Degnon-| Great crowd: —blo-ked —ssenry on in his euro in r ground has beou covered over and | spread. The heavy siones thrown | of the men were taken to Bellevue] Mejean Construction Company, said| geet to-day in front of the resi: /Yed um aml over « 5 * out by t’> blast did not reach the! Hospital. that the accident was unevoidable, |" ” a . paras * 2 i The men from headquarters are Merri of the etrect, and-the small Employees of the company who had dence of Dr. Sthults, where the body bis of trying to fusten the crime on Vin- i \ Shook T Dig Hotels, en at wor e excava aid Orthod | hoo wo Dig Hotels been at work in the excavation said) 46 @yinp Ravl Jac pphs, head ' fh cenzo Trica, who was arrested soon fragments that showered on pedes telans did little dama, Two windows in the ¢ after the bedy was found, and who was known to have made threats owly even | ag.inst Catania, £9 far =» evidence hook the Grand Union Hebrews of ervives will ty cir fathers The binant the body wi and Murray fering fr xth floor of h the Murray Hi Hotel were broken into hysteria women guests Picesxplodion AEB FERN SiRee by stones. So far as is known this and pedestrians. Coming on the heels of the acci- Bibles in ; their hands chanting Siceiled HUrD)S has been found against Trica, ‘A nurse who was w. :eling a baby|dent that caused the death of Major) prayers. Wor Drought their lit- loss Was ad among Clue in a Peddler’s Cart. the east side, and so Capt. Vredenburgh'’s men have found oy Shaler, the contractor who Was} tle ones to show them the body of 0 er t 3 carriage up the hill in front of (he) suiiding the rapid transit tunn'l) iyo qead rabbi, and they crooned a Me St" « Murray Hill fainted from fright. \through Park avenue, the explcsion | Dias i Hardly ha munded by a crowd the men who stood by the | { outside of the excavation, ‘ the pray>| traces of a peddler's cart, which was ie eet | taken from an Italian banana vender 4 i is the only damage done to property Men Orde to Sort The blast had been prepared @ur- Left alone the baby carriage start-| to-day has terrorized the nelghbor- peculiar song of eens ne netalde taken up the bady bear it words will go UD. of Columbia street the afternoon of the % ves able car! do stairs en the o i Sth Pi v] ing the night. it was in solid rock ed down the iucline and was stopped | hood. sidewalk wes impassable and cA wnstairs when tho th int wast murder, and which was returned late eS TOGK| . ee ft For-|, Business men are talking of apply-| of all de eriptio’s blocked the thor-| gather outside Tt was a weird, sad ery that night, It is now known positively, at the exireme northwest corner of ‘There were fifty men at work in| PY & passer-by at the corner © ing for an injunction restraining the | ougntare, while whe drivers passed {i {De « according to Catp .Vredenburgh, that Ours ons Catania’s body was not taken to the | home he was mia dlox Chur: } © the excavation, which extends! the hole whe ty-first street on the very edge of the | plasting at the corner of Forty-sec- ney Gayl alvisit of se the hole when word was passed that | ora satteet and Park evenue unless it|imto the house to pay a visit of te yor iis soul through from Forty-first to Forty-|a blast was to be fired. Of these ail | deep exeavatic . fe “aone under the supervision of a| spect and praise for the dead ry Y they cried over and over place where it was found in a wagon, but in a banana peddler’s cart, and | r second street, and will be occupied| wen! to the surface but about a| Henry Forbes, a cabman, Wwa8/man appoi-ted by the city to see | is that Ker and thicker grew the throngs, | ago, hy that it was covered with a dirty canvas t __. by a rapld-transit station and a big|dozen, ho, under the orders of| thrown from his vehicle in front of)that the limits of safety are not| he died absolutely fr y fours outside was clogged with} so as to resemble a load of bananas. i ote). Chief Driller Frank Roch, of No./ the Grand Central Station. His head | passed. teen years he held the st posl- ing. All could not get within it is a common thing for the banana = = = = ee Saar % peddlers to take the shore roed for | MANY PECULIAR FEATURES ABOUT THE ELECTRIC STORM __ “IF MY HAIR IS AN IMPROPER RED, WORRY er THAT DEALT DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN NEW YORK.| OVER MY HUSBAND’S CONDUCT IS TO BLAME.” isa Bot ft a cama for tem i, ea —MRS. CORA BRONNER. | 00), /shtr out inte Wesnentny tie a Cloudburst Followed |6-Point Drop in Temperature—Wind Blew 46 Miles an Hour—Light- = + noon and shat is supposed to be the one a ning Struck Many Persons, Killing Some, but Only Stunning Others. | Pretty Young Matron Says Bronner Himself Raved About It Until She | _ ony one man wos pushing cote § ee ne = : t ; was havin "Conant { Refused to Lend Him $4,000 to Start in the Clothing Business. weighed 20 pounds. Following this cart. and in locating the place in which it belonged, the Amity street police assert that Catania was Killed very close to his home. Nelghbors Alfraid to Talk. Here are some of the things which the great electric storm did, and) Seventy-second street for a while after the cloudburst, and all trains were gome of the results of Nature's tantrum with Jupiter Pluvius, Old bo! yed twenty miputes | and the elements: Pascengers on the Elevated refused to leave the cars in the storm, and —<——$— The temperature dropped sixteen points In an hour thosn on the stations could not board the trains, so that for an hour the Pps BRONNER’S MAXIMS. |! ae there was a cloud-burst stations were jammed. — h rT ill tell us nothing,’ as m the first five minutes .21 in { water fe Fisltors a dark ta “fuge . Are! altar 5 , phere, people iw ; ae j i uch of water fell Visitors to Central Park te ok refuge under the nearest shelter. | A honest way of making a said Capt. Vredenburgh, “and therefore F he next five minutes .24 inch. Mrs, Radford, of No, 1883 Third avenue, ran under a low bridge with Fn cod form the work i# difficult, To every quem ' In the thir” five minutes, 42—the greatest amount of that ever her baby in her arms. As she stood in four feet of water holding the baby Vi ae ieee mers (HI licen ton they simply answer that they de : fell upon the city in five minutes during the thirty-two years’ hetory of over her head Policeman John Kelly waded in to her rescue Goo i fh os car i not know. If you ask them If it Is day- | the Weather Bureau, except on one occasion Much damage was done to the tunnel work by the flood. est inthe long run home at || light they will say they do not know. ( In twenty-five mputes .88 inch of rain fell, the greatet in the history At One Hundred and Third street, where the trench is fifty-eight feet When a man comes home a One woman, whom 1 know. could tell of the city. Y deep, the water Was fifty feet deep at one time, and logs and a tool-house||5 o'clock in the morning it | ts mulch about Hila: Seaaedy, tale rue A, Fee floated down on the tide. Jon’t make much difference || }* Would also find her dead body and The wind blew forty-six miles an hour yee > donit i | would have another murder to solve. Ezra Engel, an eight-year-old boy, of No. 1251 Columbus avenue PARK SUR MERGED, where he sleeps. | “They are afraid for themselves. te .. oe lenrani i Thomas Jefferson Park was completely submerged, and children floated — ne one of them was caught giving Informa~ Seana Wpeshiudecn diner of (Grauys: Darky sea Ned by TBH ID NE: ay ARE a Patt iat yy tonan pea aad pie Wheth not the tint of Mrs. | Neeuees Oe wae ea cies r ir oulder, ro ed i n . ss 7, ether or ie Mrs. pe secretly ne a 4 is ih 1iMiam Gibbons, a Brooklyn iron moulder, was drowned in th \ the flagpole at the Waldorf-Astoria and gave the hether or ‘not vi | be acer nave a wondertul system of i because the storm confused him so he could not swim » same flash frightened the women at the Imperial, Cora Brovne var is “improper | information and protection. They strike suddenly and desperately and then they 4 i Dut they were soon calmed sat aa he “and, Henry, alleges 1 ‘ KILLED BY LIGHTING. Mave than a thousand aparrows were killed by lightning in Hoboken, |Tet” 8 her : em BIW 10) CONRE ENG CONR a ante a A flash of lightning killed Dennis Cash. sixty years old, as he s | Two big pieces were smashed out of the cornice at the Barrington in his answer to her su.t for paras | ardest son. pas, even told me that M4 bY meting tnalaisen terrain initont cehip nties rae Kast One tan.| #Partment house by the lightning on. ts a question that the Supreme | dare not tell al nows. He is in A ard Ae entrar ore be sn trontiof Bis house, No, 288 Hast One Hun Ingram Dy» Works, in Long Island City, were struck by lightning, "00" '* Oda te toy THOM ORLATY eine ai Eagate hed oa 4a lenth'atreat | the factory set afire and the whole plant destroyed. Loss $15,000. Court must decide. s 1 what he has already told. He has been 1 Michael Howard was knocked down by a bolt of lightning in his door, | An iron railing was struck by lightning and driven through a plate | say that Mr. Bronner is the only man) have learned very little, & ig PD “Even those who know all the facts “at No, 69 East One Hundred and Twenty-third window at Poud's grocery, Columbus avenue and Sixty-second street. | in New York who would say it is not Lightning shattered one of the 200-pound stone cro; ‘alee wo men and a woman were killed by the storm In Pittsburg hecomin, | PONRE One: RE Bud sept tt Was great damage wrought at Newark, Montclair, Jersey City DCCom'ne Th erashing down in tiny fragments from the corner of the Chureh of St. Paul Was 5 v a Ar oi ; the Apostle. tl and the Westchester eitle of Yonkers, Mount Vernon and New Rochele, | ee ee she confessed to an E ng World reporter to-day at “1 | —— ——_—-— — : Lightning smashed the glass out of the window Roundsman Beattie, of | |ingchouse whe conducts, at No. the Tenderloin station, was closing, and nearly knocked him senselos | Madison avenue, that she will be twen- | It split the 150-foot flag pole at Columbus avenue and One Hundred and | ty-three years old on Nov. 7 next, Twenty-fourth street for thirty feet. “Refore telling you the story ef my > It sent in four false alarms over the fire-alari wires gets gree Baenend public yay 4u0Ke Two children were struck by lightning in the lower east side and ren | stateme regarding me," sald) Mrs. Bronner, “I want to explain about my | — cannot be induced to tell because they fear death themselves, If one of them should tel! all he knows we would have to lock him up in a cell to keep from being a nated. reet | glas: Mrs. Bronner Js an anusua JAMES McGREERY & CO. Ladies’ Suit Dept, 3d floor: dered unconscious for hours, Lightning set fire to Public School No. 186, It was extinguished. Fifty passengers on a Third avenue trol rhaps T should not say it, but 1] halr before worry over my George Sommer and the Au- Louis Sternberger Applies for) Lee onduct caused It to fall out y car were shocked by a shaft} of lightning. | a ahaa | thoritiesof St.Peter'sSchool| Writ of Habeas Corpus to ana decome gray ae was dark, almost | The remaining stock of aa - fe. An 1 . ac and I thin 1 was justified in a is Wife Kidnapped Her| Compel Wife to Surrender) ck and Hye) . ‘ ates Lightaing caused an explosion of sewer gas which tore up the rari Gay hed isidnape re Pa Ho aera shirtwaist dresses in dimity, tm the Ninety-sixth street hollow and damaged the New York Ceatral track,| Daughters j a iesulted @ cooler he chambray and organdie,—| ’ throwing it out of gauge along the Hudson side | “This was down in the country, The A y | Water filled the streets and avenues of Harlem Iterally 10 the height of| 1.4 Auguma Sommer, ving wit, hor| Lule Sternberer, a stock broker, of| dootor prescribed a hilr tone of ile Sty OORT various models and colors,— ’ sie Augusta ¢ ne i | own Inventic ‘ou shoule ewe ania dee curbstones, and from curb to curb, for a space of five minutes during! father, Feederlek, Hailen, at, Wyekott {Wall street, living at Babylon, L. 1] 0%" Men Thea a pletiald head. [Iutely dgnorant of the ways of the/1 am proud of the fuct that my boarders | 3+5 7-50, 10,00 and 15,00 Hke me and th f n successful, filed in the Supreme Court of Brooklyn | yty ¢riends sald 1 looked Ike a circus |world, But I had sense enough to hold “As to his ance, When I had my hat off my hair}on to my money, and when the thy the first cloudburat, lwtreet and Putnam avenue, Brooklyn came for me to get it I invested some|ytaye only to say that if 1 bought ex-|Coat Suits of mercerized Phe flood caused a thirty-lnch main in the subway in Broadway at) 844 #!rested Unis afternoon on @ char today an application for a writ of} pony wr 5 kidvapping o da e “00! effe Ope Hundred and Tenth street to burst, turning the tunnel into a canal ere two daughters £09) 1. Lean corpus to compel hin wife, “Bers| presented a terracco!ta off FMS TORR ARI ‘ DA ball of fire ‘about a big as a man’s fist” rolled into the grocery of H . tle." to turn over to him thelr two ehité| Die aante RE RIM RMRD MARERYAD TOPS Wh ba AMNeo cavaral vearas adalat ian ruta ag Doles pee fOr tna chambray,—various models , s, A ay paves 5 | 1 wen # Mved he ‘or several years, My! with my own am con-|¢ ’ man, at No. 106 West Sixty-third street, cavorted down the tloor Sommer and hey husband, ¢ jdren, Marion, 4 thirteen years, and] “Upon my return to city I con-! hu 1 hud a salary of $3,000 a year| vineed that it ts true nomy to buy d col @ to a kas pipe, hit the telephone box and disappeared. according to SMe! A bureher at No. @ Washlis: | Roport eleven years old. sulted my own physician, He sald that) end commissions. He played the dude ne can afford tne way {and colors,—— 4 rated D ro 1 would have to dye my hair and that/and I put up the money for the houre “Every w 1 ’ avery Woman ikea to look freah and 10,00 a 15,00 armful preparation I could} hold expenses. Never since our baby, | Well groomed and stylish. Tt ni” fine AE 7G Tuned it and dt had! gia, wax born, four years aso, has ho| Possible to do It with dowdy sarmente, My tuair became thick |Hougnt her a gown OF & hat or a t Goud clothes are the cheapest in the is now 1 bought everything oxen witnesses it With the application were Med a num- Wgbtning struck Third avenue car No. 2,194, bound south and full of gers. near Ninety-ninth strect, shocking Uv passengers and setting either: had. beet, Visiting. tie | hwich are maid to contain many sensi- the floor of the car, No one was hurt, though there was @ panic. h June 18 in Bt. Peter's Sehool rh 4 Feet abe tock the veiitine | anal statements which would prove! 1am not amed of Mt Mightning struck the structure at Highth avenue and One Hundred attorney, Otis |that he should have the custady of the| “AS! of tay boarders said jt was most| "Hinally, when saw that 7 was eat Mh lenty-sixth street and Terhune's dry goods store a block further up. shildren Were | rarer becoming and my husband fairly rayed|/M& too fur into the prineipal of my | (ab over It until he wanted to borrow #4,0m)Hitle fortune, 1 stunted a boarding: | the least vor of affidavits, which were sealed, and| use was pe & benetich and strong to, oat me. He White pique skirts, ny, Lace, with Biippel eat Hin wiih , 375 rs would Be struck the house of Dr, Seifert at City Island and destro: Q a estroyed | Sternderger and his wife separated house, y y he led me | from me te eet bim up In the clothing | house This offended my husband's ry i 0 . Ughting system of the island. | a, strate |in 18, and since then, Ne asserts, he| business, wense of dignity. ar ing nthe enor dye Twenty-third Strect, ng Mt) | has been unable to sec tis children.| “When I wae seventeen he took me| “He considered tt bad form to keep a | Hot cause me any worry. Ip m opinion Dp A man COmMes ort o * athe hearing iid |The matter will be called for wrgument| out of the convent and married me. I! boarding-house, I iconalder any honest | Moo i thy morning It fleyence whore he" ie FLOOD STOPS THALYS. Amer War In ¢ : : "ants ith one of the Fan twenty Inches deep in the New York Coutral tunnel at) ailoged ine *Wdfe ntiempied (okt >> \o-morrow morning. Was inexperienced} might say absy- way of making # living good form, and ~ much’ dl