The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1903, Page 1

WHATHER—Falr to-night) warmer toxmorrew, “— RACING # SPORTS : RnR 'SPORTING NEWS che UW rid, NIGH PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, THURSD: AY, FEBRUARY 19, 1903. PRICE ONE CENT, IEAL, THREE WILL OIE NUM EAPLOGION Awlul Accident in the Government Magazine at Fort Lafayette, in the Narrows, Caused This Afternoon by a Defective Shell, ALL THAT IS LEFT OF THE NEWARK 7ROLLEY-CAR a Aner _ | IN WHICH MANY CHILDREN’S LIVES WERE LOST TO-DAY i ARE | eee ue for abe BE SNORE > World, oe ¢ Little Victims, Jammed in a Mass in Their $ Efforts to Escape, Mashed Into a Ghastly i Lump—Mayor of Newark Had Warned Common Council that Such Tragedy Would Occur. HELP FOR THE INJURED SENT BY BOAT. FROM FORT HAMILTON. Ten Dead and Four Dying as the Result of a Train Tearing Through Their Car on a \ Men Who W Killed W ivili Newark Grade Crossing . To-day---Brakes Tas | sige ik esc ere Civilian oe ) ~, ployees Who Were Supposed to Be Experts: Failed to Stop the Trolley. #\ in the Handling of Dangerous Explosives— eur DEAD. } Victims Were Terribly Mutilated. BAKER, MAUDE, No. 562 High street. g EASTWOOD, EVAN, No. 596 Clinton avenue. paeeeee: 8OS0598 0040904000004 ILL, VIOLA, No. 43 Sterling street. : explosion in Fort Lafayette, the United States Navy explosive am ee hee ne anise snot wereet: WMETROPOLITAN | FO U R H U N 5 R ‘S D TW PLATOONS terial warchouse in the Narrows, this afternoon. Three ofthe LOHENBERG, ALMA, No. 211 Littleton avenue. injured will die before to-morrow. Word of the accident was sent re ara te aoe. calomomys ayonte. MEETS AT ATTAGK. PU P | LS | N PAN IC FOR FIREMEN to Fort Hamilton and from there ambulances were ordered from the hospital: South. Brooklyn, ca peaies of two unidentified girls at Mallen’s Morgue. epee ia Gon inet Fort Lafayette is on an island directly opposite Fort Hamilton, ma, _— bay. The explosion, peculiarly enough, did not arouse the neighborhood, — 09O9LO8OOHHE 2O400606990460OO95 Four men were killed and eleven dangerously injured byyam’ THE DYING. i .| but was none the less destructive. The first information given out led the BRADY, PETER, motorman, 748% Highiand avenue; Treat Ganeay iit decolbns i “ me hospital authorities to believe that the four deaths had been instantaneous, fatally crashed. : leny Reports Concerning Fi- Westerleigh Collegiate Institute Destroyed at PArlMEeAC INO! Vay ANG OMe that cher deaths were expected among’ tie injured) ‘BULL, MENA, No. 41 Austin street. nances and Declare Them) West New Brighton, S &k—Prof. Griffin| Forces, and Limit Continu-| tho fort in which the explosion occurred is an anclent structure, used IDSLEY, FREDERICK, No. 43 Avon avenue. Due to anenoniat Persons. Leaps from Window and Breaks Both Legs,| YS Service to 24 Hours. almost exclusively a8 a storage place for gunpowder and other explosives. CLELLAND, JENNIE, 315 South Orange avenue. | _ Aad At present there are great stores of explosive stuff in the vaults and mag- THE INJURED . |STOCK WAS HAMMERED.| rie in em wonosnen cotonate 1 [of ns room with emoke and the roar]|MEN TO CHANGE ABOUT, | Sines ena lhe olncors are inable to understand way the whole {sand wat a stitute at West New Brigthon, Staten of iown Oo! e surface of e bay. ., On 0 ey a ALSOP, FREDERICK, No. 78 Ridgewood avenue; badly hurt about] ssa, wanen of ute vim nut | MURtH imperiled the tes of WH DUES wooden ialtway. was en fire and that HELP FROM FORT HAMILTON. t b day, but the pecullar construction Bes fe (Special to The Evening World.) * 4 head and body. che Metropolitan Strent Railway Com 1 tAY yullding enabled them to escape | 4 few moments the ames would be] 15 ACY" Se on the Assembly | Communication between Fort Lafayette and the mainland is by dost, . + ny this afternoon. Stories conce: D 3 1 ste, Pp ded ie ce ‘ fs BARCLIFF, OSCAR, Gladstone, N, J., engineer of Lackawanna train; |{ty ‘nancial, standing were pod FT Let a if to the root, Ho opened a window and |to-dny two bills were Introduced provid which made the removal of the injured a matter of extreme diffloulty. : tata a the , vadow, breaking | 2mved out, In reality fe ree for the diviale N 7 ni suffering from severe shock. Besla, of nioak 7a8rh eh SHAS ay ae from second-story window, breaking @ VOM Ole in ree nt adda to. the dis set a een ee ne Nee aes When word of the accident reached Fort Hamilton the post surgeon went — 3 12 pol # oth his legs. : heleht of tho bulldin adi t ‘Oils - i y BURRMAN, WALTER, No. 29 Stratford oy ribs broken [Saat oe /ecuemay | Tenant ty Wak) w rembling | MORE Of the Dullding, Tn:aQdlton: 9H icy leare presented Gy MoCarthy: of |e oe ny tne amall boat used fon) transno seer ee Some ol © reports were extremely| three-story frame woture, stood on] yo Geantune S 1 ‘ Weenlca Ne “ lnnce surgeons who responded to the call were aleo taken across CAMP, SUSAN B. \senaationall and affected the intestiy| weetericign Heights, and ts a Staten | ne, twee iniured Interr ay nics the Twent sant New sai Bio ieee a dat cae Hee pipes ™ | of an official of the company Island landmark. It Ie one of the best tht ’ "aber, of the Sixteenth of Kings. chann n is boat and D rrangemen: r the removi COMERFORD, MARGARET, No. 370 South Orange avenue; body| “wmptiatic denial was made to all of|private soavols In C ew /¥ork Peaster eA fe na of either of these | of the wounded. ; | these by Metropolitan oMolals, the/and was attended en of the i ettin ls nt be divided tnto two = =! crushed and internal injuries; probably fatal. Pe coi ces thecoeoany leeilog (eracl tent cation in Vere mario maa went olen tbe ars sy service, from §| The first official returns to the Navy Yard reported that the injured COURSON, ALIZE, No. 149 Roseville avenue; broken leg. Tomine senkteation inn ing AE RuMtcoe aieteae protestors Injad: ched mireets, The | A. M. to 6 P.M. the other for night} men were literally torn apart, and that the mortality among the wounded “There has been no defaication in the tu Presiden 0 the hydrants | Service. from 6 F. to DOLL, FLORENCE, No. 35 Van Ness place; ankle broken and badly | metropolitan Street Railway Company. = Plant. ooh the beat the, Under the Weber: bil the piatoons|is bound to be very heavy. The clothing and shoes were blown off the The stories that such is the case have has been d reached the scene|chenge about weekly, while under Me-} = 7 I Injured about head and shoulders. been circulated for the purpose of sct- Peiatetine ste eating appar-|could do was to stand by and see the | arthy’s they must be reversed at least Injured. who were also badly burned by the flames) tat aocommsnseaiaas 5 : ' y t be ding go up In s i ix months. - | explosion. FOX, EDITH, No. 114 Bank street; scalp wounds. tling for a price several sults Gite and several times it bas been] bullding go up tn smoke na exp “These rumors have been tn clroulation S to close down the scnor al for The exposed covdition of the »chool "4 sy — - - , GERAGHTY, LILLIAN, No. 395 Plane street; fractured hip. tor the past three months, andthe only Peas, Recents the Hea'ing plant ws all along te wortn -| THE VICTIMS WERE CIVILIANS. « lweason that they have recent Shine . ‘and no ot the {sland, and rey 7 a J KNIGHT, EMILY, No. 13 Walnut street; ankle broken and head in-|fractea attention Is that there has been | Ye, ® Lae ee nucipalan: scores of homes The unfoitunates who figured in the accident were civilian employees jured. associated with thtem the name of Dine |e fr In the ton floor oa oF Ghileren tn the of the Navy Department supposed to be experts in the handling of dyma- trict-Attorney Jerome, which name h he hour for noo For iT 0 i . j Bye n¢ wr hig Y LITTELL, MARGERY, No. 73 Plane street; skull fractured. been brought into tho business. by tne |t2-aay JR Mr it wae dincovered| For @. lene uns removes « | mite, guncotton and other igh explosives used in the loeding of shells, LULAND, ARTHUR, No. 81 Avon avenue, parties promoting the civil Hugation.” |Derore it had gained any headway wid HT PROUAR ONE, GEAR SIIARAL FaRk Res againet any maruer of the de- As soon as the news of the accident reached the Navy-Yard a tug have M’CORD, HELEN, No. 17 Burnet street scalp wounds smomine thie, c Hales F Saree an alarm was Lipetis hit os ee Here te served jing on board a corps of doctors and nurses and a committee of naval off- , i 5 4 . cretary and Treasurer, and one of the} On account of the inflammable nature ‘ sted for Fort Lafayette. direct ff the Metropolitan Bt ing fire drills had been neld ————= | cers started for p NEVINS, FRANCES, No. 445 Broad street; scalp wounds. Raflway, canneas: a fepcee ais poe we eae eatin alarm was id It is the Understanding of the officials that the loss of life was caused PRICE, MARION N.; body bruises and scalp wounds, “It 1s a malicious made out of| sounded to-day the teachers instructed by the explosion of a shell upon which a gang of workmen were engaged. RICH, PAULINE. whole cloth,” he said. Wie-atieh ty to the pupils te migeh 10 Wie; aba eaL ant It is probable tha: the sheil was defective. ROQUETS, CARL, No. 37 Waverly place. Sire irs Peter erie LACE ain em al ‘The dead men were unrecognizable, having been literally torn to pieces, ‘SMITH, MABEL, No. 57 Elizabeth avenue; head injured, the author of it if we can learn who] ne giris in the school were in @ pani> Other employees, hearing the noise of the explosion, rashed to the ald SMITH, GEORGE, No. 78 Monmouth street; left leg fractured and] ‘he"stcgetutn or a foundation Without! of fear, for the halls were filling with of the Injured, and by prompt work prevented the spread of the fire that sag the suggestion of a foundation.” amoke, but tho teachers by their vonl- FORT LAFAYETTE EXPL | resulted, pther injuries. Patria age eee Berar ee aie B THAD AAS ae Seer If the great quantity of explosives stored there had gone off all at once — ‘ay ‘01 v e1 ry '. vhen he VAN VALEN, MAUDE, No. 87 Hillside avenue; bruised about head] fis own investigation he was satistied|uviig hea aasombled in. the aymnasium mente | {t is Mkely that destruction would have been scattered all through the Fort. 7) ‘and arms. that most of the stories about the|they were marched to an adjoining coat- | Hamiiton region, ak toe Metropolitan had been circulated by|room, where all the wraps were kent, a mi iw WALLACK, JACOB, No. 23 Ninth avenue; injured about the head Beraons who want to knock down the|and from there were allowed to leave Following Is a list of the dead and injured in the explosion | CHIEF SURGEON AIDED INJURED Khe stoc and body. OR ta ln tie market, however, had | ‘he srounds. this afternoon at Fort Lafayette so tar a3 known: Major Powell, Chief Surgeon at Fort Hamilton, heard the noise of the profited by the stories, and Metropolitan | 4¥ thie Lime the lower part of the main Fy 3 He Biock led ‘the decline ina dull bullding wee in flames Prot umn | The dead—Gustav Dozer, Ninety-third street and Third ave- |explosion, saw the balloon-like smoke column that floated from the seeme Ten pupils of the Clifton High School, in Newark, N. J.,| The denials of te amelals of the com-| who waa in the mustc room on the eee-/nue, Brooklyn; John Mason, No, 353 Court street, Brooklyn’ |and, calling his assitants together, started at once for Fort Lafayette. a 4 d floor, did hear th i 7 " "eight of them girly were inwtantly killed to-day in a trolley car,|PaMi,gui? P14 paints, MP | ite tent moti of tho fre waa the niing| JON Rather; Martin Thorgeson, No.2 Second place, Brooklyn, |. “When I kot there aad Maier Eee Bresiae Ware ee 4 ‘which was struck by a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western train at jown the fort, Four of these men were dead, One of them had his head 0! / Ohifton avenue crossing. Nearly a score of others were injured, Injured—Frederick Mungen, Leng Island City: Edward Mo- egnP pent) ‘and so far as 1 know, the head has not been found yet. : and of these five will die. Millan, No. 120 East One Hundred ana Nineteenth sireet, Man- “Having satisfied myself that the four were dead I tara my seni ‘The fact that nearly all of the killed and injureg, were school hattan} Charles Lohmiller. No. 249 Sockholm street, Brooklyn, |* the emaining (our cae Raed scones ann pape bodies rls made the wreck all the more pitiful. The tender bodies wore | N A I RAI N W R EC »K. and William H, Van Gorp, Fifth avenue, South Brooklyn. lg of one of the deed Wing aarows Gi body, eee eo ‘ ground under the wheels of the locomotive and scattered along the op tenany ‘Another bad his arm blown off, ‘The bodies of all the eight were #09 track for one hundred feet. So badly were the victims mangled LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, and seared by the flames that had followed the explosion. “that identification wae difficult, and five hours after the accident] tonoyvo, re. 12—Twenty ee where their wounds were areasea.| ‘Fifth Race—~Sweet Alice 1, Birch Broom 2, Musical Slipper. |ZN 4 SHRIOUS CONDITION. “two of the dead, a girl and a young man, remained unknown. Were injured in the wreck of the Mon-|Most of them were bound for Chicago, Sixth Race—Burgoyne 1, Ed L. 2, The Caxton 3 “1 directed that the corpses should be taken care of, and then be : treal express at Whitby Junction this|and continued on thelr Journey this dC danied sd ot J for the transportation of the injured across the channel to the It was a grade-crossing tragedy, due to the weather conditions | atternoon. afterioon. ‘The poor fellows are in @ bad way. Of those I left at the Fort, I do and the natural conformation of the locality. From the south | None were fatally hurt, although the) The train was west-bound on the main DR. SUTORIUS DISCHARGED. bel eve that any is badly enough injured to warrant belief in death.’ injuries of some are serious. system of the Grand Trunk road. when, game the trolley car on 2 down grade that culminated at the rail-| Among the Americ while passing Whitby Junction, it Dr. Francis Sutorius, who was charged with being con William Van Gurt was the first of the injured brought to the mata board th ins , Ded ck, ? 5 arged Ww g con- ie 1 to thomas Food track. From the west came the railroad train on a down |/2ovut ‘waitham, Mas, ip ainocato WAI the oars lett the ralle, th cerned in frauds on the Trust Company of the Republic, was |¢2 regain consclousness. | His @rst, words were an sbnes fhim to break the news gently to his wife, /; “Tell her I'm hurt a little,” said Van Gurt, “but don't say matter with me,” ws etree 6 re oh the sone pi, ‘The crossing, in other |J. H. Lanaitt, injurt qulnh (lan aoe discharged by Justice Mayer in the Court of Special Sessions this afternoon. Assistant District-Attorney Garvin deslared thrown in heaps in the various cogchos -| and cut by fying giags. The engineer, Wiliam Ghewer. haa bie lng veer | that there was no evidence against the aooused, Veo Gurk said that billy at work with three other eke Bb, Alle AN adjoining thet in which t psa 5 plea, ae Fo ott + ° WILLIAM. EFFT.IS DEAD. > a abe wan eH tH eal enown Sy oods firm of Tefft, Aaa Pe ae