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yar F — — 2c UIE CONTE ns Se eed UTR 3 ONS OF DYNAMITE SHAKE THE WHOLE CITY; _- THIRTY ARE KILLED; THOUSANDS ARE HUR WRATHEM—Rain 1 WEATHER-R. To-night and Thersday) warmer FINAL ecoiro “ Circulation Booke Open | to All.”’ PRIOR ONE “OENT, core: Bt Naw NEW ‘YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY BY qo. co “PAGES “PRICE ‘ONE CENT. 4 Diagram Picture Illustrating the Position of the Powder Boat | MMLLIONS FFF SHOCK | 4 And the Pier From Which the Explosive Was Being Taken 3 ~ LIKE EARTHQUAKE AS © DYNAMITE EXPLODES. — Thirty Are Killed and Thousands Injured When Magazine Boat Blows Up on New Jer- sey Shore of Bay. ~ TUGS AND SHIP WRECKED, FERRY-BOAT SHATTERED, Skyscrapers Rock, Buildings Are Cracked, Windows Fall in Fragments and Multitudeé Swarm Streets Wildly for Twenty-Five Mile Radius From Scene of Disaster. «© Die al we % More than thirty men were killed by the explosion of a cargo-of CENE OF EXPLOSION SHOWING WHERE-BOATLE dynamite on board the gasoline tighter Catherine W., moored to the outer jend of pier No. 7 in Communipaw, N. J., south of the Jersey Central | | Depot, on the stroke of noon to-day. Of the dead probably fifteen, RPC STORY (| WRECK F VF IDENTIFIED JEAD, MANY. OVING HUNDREDS HURT who were right at the scene of the explosion, were blown to atoms. | t The explosion was the most terrific ever experienced in this section « | ‘of the country. Its effects were felt for miles in all directions. A tidal } - ee tie es — | J Broken bones and bruises, cuts caused by flying glass and nervous} contusions of chent and abdomen; Huds) old, No. 217 Third atreet, Elizabeth; Wave swept across the upper harbor and up the North River. Thousands ; s ibs | Son Street Hospital. contusions of scalp; Hudson Street ite tn Yaeuay Oa eae ] in j shock sent hundreds to the hospitals in Jersey City and Manhattan in) riNLEy. EDWARD, No. aid Seventy- | Hospital = | were injured in Jersey City, Bayonne, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Acrés ; A ; ia ; nd street, Bay Ridge, contusions; at| LAVIN, MAY, two years old, No. 2 it steserwedesahit dail oat | the hour immediately following the terrific explosion. Many were only | Cty sompital, Jecsey ony Third atreet, Hilsabeth; broken Anger, | °F Panes Of Blass were chattered, and-panic_and hystetla reigned for Kil slightly hurt and after emergency treatment were sent to their homes;| FINLEY, THOMAS, No. 44 forth ae of body; Hudson Street)an hour among a million people. ; ! Abn deo Central avenue, Baltimore, contusions; | Hospital. hack inde % sige | others were put to bed with more serious injuries, of whom a dozen are | at City Hospital, Jersey City. gURHSAN, Sp Neu 8 Brower} te Mt, It is impossible to determine the exact amount of dynamite that @x- i ; ; ; " cent'k Hompital Ped ib te‘ anlt dying, and at least two died in the hospitals besides those who were killed | ,fONP,, HAREY, twenty-nine years |Vinoorcn Yominl. | 1 | loded, for all who knew are dead, but it is estimated that between five old, couk, No. U2 Franklin _ atrest, outright. Greenpoint, scalp wounds, Hudson ay eg phase eethiteastiimitaas and six tons had been placed aboard the lighter. The explosion was i r F s th BURNETT, ROBERT, captain J» to Hudson Street Hospital. Hospital. : they were being lowered. They dropped into the hold from a height e Evening World Reporte ee the of the tug Jolin Twohey, died at THE INJURED. Peers | Eine Ibe he MONANGO, SAMUBL, twenty-six about forty feet and the explosion followed, i i nildi City Hospital. ABRAHAMSON, BRUNO, No. 172 years, cook on 8.8. Ruth, scalded about Shock in the Pulitzer Building and jemy Gly torn pet, No, 215] Camel etreeu Brooktyns cut about hood | Huston Street Mowpita, © || A a at a, Prancin opie , tied at Jersey and face; at Jersey City Hospital years old, 452 Fifth avenue, Brook- WILIJAM, No. 1% Forty: BLEW LIGHTERS INTO WRECK. a Moment Later Is Hurrying ei t wa Was a passenger ADLERT, ROBERT, Fidelity & Casu-|iyn; cut about face; Hudson Street | eon t; to Hudson Street Hos-| ‘The Catherine W. was owned by Capt. Helling, who was in charge aboard ty ospital, jneamie bell aaah New York; to st. Vincent's | Hospital, [in Epes M, No. 728 Forty.|today. He had a crew of eight men. Besides there were dock hands, alighting from incot pe! GAUCHPNSKY, ALBERT, No. 236 qrat street, Brook Rees se . ? to Cover the Story. |Jersey Central Station; buried un-| ANDERSON, PETER. twenty-seven | park avenue, Hoboken, 1 Ay | ton sirect Hospital bruises; to Hud-|ing to move the dynamite from freight cars on the pler to the lighter, we ‘der tilling glass from skylight. vhs BUA ld Pia concua: | home. erase RA, ANTONIO, fitty years old, |dynamite was intended for shipment to Havana on the liner Santiago,’ /It d " a dl ‘ p GAUSS, JOHN, No. 17 Bay street, : : ; 4 MORO, GANTONO, No. 11] anpeRson, GRISWALD, 198 \yecgar Cita, aarcuey Mees aad tae, tions, Hud-| wag being transferred to the Catherine W. from freight cars, In which it An Evening World reporter was sitting at his desk on the twelfth} Conover street, Brooklyn; railroad |carron street,’ Brooklyn, bruises; City | gt Christ Hospital 5. gu Fourth [had been shipped from the Dupont-De Nemours powder works in New tags + » e Hospital, Jersey City, K * " st at 12 o’clock when there was a sort of aJemployee on schooner. P y sat eos HAMBR, J. F. jr, Midletown, N. J.; t, Hoboken, City Hos- | Jersey. floor of the Pulitzer Building just at 12 o’c MNEIL, CHARLES, engineer of| AUBERSHAMSON, | GREENWALL.| to Jersey City Hospital. pital. The explosion not only destroyed the Catherine W., Pler No. 7 and part Fi i fifty-seven years, No. 172A Carroll street,| HANSEN, H. T., joboken; brutes; ARLES, No. Capt. Landgren, with shaking roar that left him for a moment stunned, It seemed to him—as} i engine in Jersey Central oki, soon baahy one aaa eae | ee eee ened ® i] STRAMMEE, OF, } No. 4) o¢ surrounding piers, but sank the lighter Hustler, Capt. ; an indeed as it seemed to everybody else apparently within the radius of the yards; blown from a os his fa City Hospital, 4 HARRISON, CHARLES, Oran, (Continued on Fourth Page.) on board. It is feared that sense er sit men acre their lives on the Hustler, explosion—that the bowels of the earth had retched and were starting ine; ae ou Bg GON gpa ION ed fy des ay Gh Mpeg ode seriall ime —__—_—>—__— ches Rigel killed on the bark Ingrid, moored across the pier from the upward through the foundations of the building beneath him. 4 MORO, MIKE, fifty years, Ham- SEPA Of Me. dohn Traber, rpcture pid, clerk, No. 47 Ralph avenue, Brook- ‘ARMED WITH KNIFE Fire and police boats from New York were the first to reach the scene This reporter, who is the writer of this account, was half a minute] ilton avenue, near Prospect avenue, | Hoepital; wi die. HEILDS, 3 | of the explosion. Fire Commtsstoner Waldo, Chief Croker and Deputy Police } , he ; rind ‘the pts Brooklyn, an Italian; railroad em-| BODEN, FRANK E,, Beaver, Pa.; la-| Jersey City Hospital | Commisstoner Driscoll, in charge of New York firemen and policemen, did | Jater riding down in the elevator on an assignment to find the place where} 15. 06° on schooner. |cerations from wrist to elbow; injured] HIGGINS, ANNIE, fifty-six years praiseworthy work in caring for the injured and rescuing the bodies of ccurred and cover the story. pore on the ferryboat Wilkes-Barre; New| old, No, 25 rk place, Elizabeth; | ; ) the crash had occurred and cover the story, ; 7 | York Hospital and sent home. scalp wounds; Hudson Street Hospital, the dead ‘At the door of the building a watchman yelled out to him that some-| FATAL! Y | ie The Tarrant expfosion had been’ conisidensd” thie :axeuk sana | BURNS, AND! o | HILLARY, THOMAS, deck han: BURNS, PATRICK, thirty-two years, ANDREW, captain of David igh oot > NS, ’ Yearborn, blow ws 1 North Centra! avenue, Baltimore, | i] aster of the kind in the history of the city. The Tarrant explosion was as { ‘ t Park place and Broadway, two blocks away. But the} waste eames Hadhinesck, fred | > rn, blown aga: boiler. | . i thing had blown up at Park p yh gl ggg a pa 1 Win}, BURNS, PATRICK, Hackensack, | Ut @bout body. City Hospital | the report of a popgun to to-day’s tremendous release of the pent-up force excavations for a new building at the corner there yawned peaceful 91d aku! + ° | bruises; St. Francis Hospital. JABACHEIMER, J. T. JR, Middle. | ite die, 4 te town, J of tons of dynam! undisturbed. So the reporter joined the growing multitude that poure? sutl Gpror well-dressed young _PeMARE r, samt Hil Nos 101 ions JAMELKOWSKT, SOLOMON, No an ‘The explosive was being taken from the end car of a string of twenty 7 ne seriously out. 7 D ‘ a _-_ ¥ vhich’ w of every side street and streamed southward on the up-and-down af ceries | mi ddress unknown, seri mst. | mtrest Hospital, Park avenue, Plainfield, N. J | cars, all loaded with dynamite, which’ were on plier 7. This end car was i At St. Francis Hospital. Will die. JOHNSON, WILLIAM H., aixty-one | | 7 p island. } i " ‘o. 3 ve 9ENBERT, JOHN W., thirty-elght! \ Ms a Sas i ‘I " blown from its tracks and slewed sidewise on the pier. meer omers ihe S aoa sree can tmciorracuee awl tras ah ao A, Bevonne; |Zeu8 he Ny if ct tee | Saya:rle Was Sent by God to Wonderfully, this great mass of explosive did not go off from the con? STREETS QUICKLY FILLED. | tured Frances Hospital |RenRRAIeBR GF BeAlp ANS thee; HUGKER | Street: Hoepital, "See Gaynor—ls Sent to | cussion caused by the explosicn on the barge. If {t had, in the opinton bf It was just at the noon hour and thousands of clerks and women from | OWS" LTR AMi WFEHRIAN 76 Pe hy EY A RAISER, WILLIAM, No, 46 Hudson | ‘ Fire Commisstoner Waldo and Chief Croker, who inspected it thin the office buildings joined the hurrying m Church street, Broadway, | i yro4 siull. At St, Francis Hospital, | years, laborer, lacerations, to Hudson |” KoginskY, J “ik fete ish gp Bellevue. it might have blown the lower end of Manhattan off the map, and ‘vou! and West street were all congested. The crowd would split down the middle | \yii1 ate Street Hospital, City; blown into river; dying in st | certainly have wiped out the Communipaw section of Jersey City, like a wave to let a shrieking, smoking banshee of a fire engine through or | OKSKEY, ISIDORE, seriously | DILLER, policeman, Traffic A, jola Hospital ‘The concussion attending the explosion was felt throughout the masto: a galloping squad of mounted policemen and then come together again |crusied and cut. St, Francis Hospital. | thrown f horse; to Hudson Steet MB, JOHN 116 Rolly atrest, | Just &* Mayor Gaynor arrived at the politan district. From Elizabeth and the Oranges in New Jersey on the Will die Hospital , bruises; City Hospital, Jer- a man who was acting ’ i rm solidly. SID 2, S., no address, at St. Fran-| FARINO, ROGER, forty-three yeara| sey City broke into the Mayor’a| West, the boundaries of the Bronx on the north, Nassau County om the east Instinctively everybody headed toward the Battery. But when you Bot) cix Hospital; will die. | old, laborer, Canal and Sullivan street LAVIN, MARIE, twenty-eight years ared he was sent by God} 4nd Atlantic Highlands on the south reports poured into Manhattan of the Be tte ese the) Maas rocking of bulldings, the shattering of glass and the fright of millions of there you found confusion worse confounded, In the tiny park space) — , " Ps y serried skysc: e s Detectives & oC and Floyd hounded on two sides by water and on two sides by serried skyserapers the | s1yer and done #0 much damage on another shore—but, just the same, the] wiped It out. At the far end there|qrotan, who have the detail te follow | People i es and fire patrol wagons and the policemen ran from point to point : th stood up a shattered, snaggled row of q og The greatest severity was felt of course in the Communtpaw and Ray.» _ engin reporter ran for the sea wall jthe Mayor to and from the office, trying to locate the spot where the explosion had occurred, with the multi- le SMa uy air Rake pbulais a8 Cia Wablacaittenore unk: | Pre Biles, Lich hee been the sup-| grabbed the man, , and when they | onne sections ot New Jersey and on Ellis Island. But the most spectacular tude following them like sheep. Under foot the pavement was strewn deep} poy. yaunch was just pulling out[ There has be pier—No. 7 of the ot Te ee aon alee apie dele 4 ae searched him found an open knife| and remarkable demonstrations of the power of the exploston occurred in © -{nehes deep in spots—-with shattred glass that had been burst from show]... rarvor Squad A and the writer eee o ew dutting out tor |) nn td railroad trecks. Bur wane ae pocket ee, Ae lower Manhattan and tn the business*section and in the Red Hook and Bay! 7 from aFnO: a . 5 e ward the h por outh elahth of a ” ‘The man was .urried downstairs to windows and office fronts. The serunching of this glass under countless heels | ¢ his fire badge and jumped] mug pelow the Central's eauat eration | thing Wax Kone from the water line up, tno city tail station and arraigned be. | Ridge districts In Brooklyn Pose above the rest of the tumult yoard as the poticemen- cast off] but it wasn't @ pler any more. It “ oe fore Lieut. Walsh of the TraMe Squad , 4 i : Then somehow, somewherc—just how he'll never be able to tell—the re-| and sped for the opposite shore. A five-| wasn't much of anything, It was as (Continued on Second Page.) | station. ‘There Ne sald he was Charles THROAT CUT BY SHAKEN BARBER, J porter learnefl that the explosion had occurred in Communtpaw, across a|minute run, and then as we swung tn} nearly nothing as anything built by | zale ot ‘ast hit ond street, ‘The sumber of injured will run into the thousands, Hudson ; Jose to the Jersey side, the completest| human hands could be. An unchained jayonn ttan was overwhelmed w! \ alle or mor of sea water, It didn’t seem possible that anything less vio- Bien <4 dedcladbn and wack. Wak 1 ‘area’ fad! aimoie Sie (bat) sacanneara urwe “Soe, Hee. eee ath Mie nin aiins eangiaadidhe wan wan Hospital . a an ms hipaa belie fi. Jeng an the ‘grack of doom could have carried its force eo far under the evgr saw unfolied itself from behind a] wooden pier @ broadside swipe and fe crank and sent bim to Bellevue, to thednetitution in express wagons, p , a