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retry Brooklyn hospitals were taxed to thei: capacity to bind up the wounds of the / injured. Most of the hurts were caused by broken glass. In the Communipaw section of Jersey City, fow who were on the streets at’the time of the explosion escaped injury, The medical hospital resources of Jersey City and Bayonne proved entirely inadequate to care for the vi tims. The Chief of Police of Jersey City sent word to Commissioner Crop: sey at 12.45 o'clock that the town was in a condition approximating the| aftermath of an earthquake and asked for medical aid Police surgeons and volunteers from east side hospitals were hurried *» Jersey City by Commissioner Cropsey. Ambulances were also sent over, Scores of persons were lying in the streets of Communipaw unable to help, themselves. One of the innumerable tragic freaks of the disaster occurred to George Wigginton of No. 1169 Fox street, the Bronx, who was getting shaved tn a barber shop at Liberty and West street. The barber was thrown out balance, the razor slipped and the man’s throat was cut from ear to ear. -He was taken to the House of Relief mortally injured Persons sleeping in Harlem were thrown from their beds. In East New York, the congregation of a Catholic church ran, shrieking and praying, to the street. Fulton street, Brooklyn, in the shopping district, was show- ered with broken glass. Ellis Island sustained a damage of $100,000 to buildings, and the immigrants charged to the ferry and tried to throw themselves into the Bay. Manhattan Island, south of Fulton street, was fairly riddled by the cqncussion. Broken glass littered the sidewalks and pavements. Tens of thousands of clerks, men and women, working on the upper floors of sky- fcrapers started for the stairways and elevators. They thought New York had been visited by an earthquake and that !mpression was generally shared. CROWD DOWNTOWN IN GREAT PANIC. Boon after the shock of the explosion passed the streets in downtown Manhattan were swarming with crowds that made locomotion almost im- possible. Business was suspended on the Stock Exchange and in banks. Through the crowds clanged fire engines, water towers and ambulances, looking for the scene of the disaster, for rumors were thick and dropping from every side. > The City Hall was emptied by the shock. It was rumored that some one had thrown a bomb in the Mayor's office. Doubtless it will be fount that walls have been cracked and foundations weakened in many old build. ings in the lower section of Manhattan. The scene of the eryplosion is a little clutter of docks close to the Com- paw Btation of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. It is directly aeross and abcut a quarter of a mile from Elis Island. This spot is the official mooring ground for barges containing explosives and is the only of | paidt of the harbor so recognized. < The barge containing the explosive was at the end of Plier 7, a wooden covered structure, on which a gang of men were at work. At neigh- bofing piers were moored sailing vessels and barges. All the docks in that | wevtion are busy places. The noon whistles were just blowing at the time of the explosion and doekhands were hurrying ashore. The tug William McAllister was floating ~ in, broadside, to tie up to Dock No. 6, about sixty feet toward the mainland from the magazine lighter. y Exactly at noon the barge let go. The time is established by the stopping of clocks all over Bayonne. The big clock on the front of the Central Ratl- rosd of New. Jersey ferry house stopped with the minute and hour hands pointing toward the zenith. a 3 ot yellowish smoke shot up into the air from the acene of 4 's Hospital, Jersey City. % flagman’s and cc's shanty In the yard was wrecke@, r ‘The nd for anrbulauces was #0 great that the injured were Waiting tl and higher it blew, until {t seemed to form into clouds float Jeally ‘Way on the wind. The sun, which had been shining bright: ly, became overcast In a few minutes. When the smoke cleared away not a sign remained of the dynamite craft thet had been moored to the end of the plier. But on the surface of the water floated masses of wreckage, the separate parts of which were not Jarger than a man’s hand. Mutilated bodies floated in the wreckage, and here and there a man vould be seen swimming for safety. The wooden covering of Pier 7 was absolutely razed to the pler level for # few splintered timbers here and there. A floating holst, which deen passing out from the docks and was within 100 feet of the lighter atithe time of the explosion, was crumpled like an opera hat. Three men aboard this hoist. There was no sign of life s\oard as the smoke red away and the wrecked, ungainly craft floated off with the tide. GBOAT AND SHIP WRECKED NEAR BAL GRE. |}, The tugboat William McAllister was wrecked. Harry Ford, the cook, sucked from the deck of the tug by the vacuum following the explosion, eighty feet over the wreckage of the pier and the barge and dropped the river, where he swam around for fifteen minutes until he was up by che patrol boat of Harbor Squad A of New York. “The McAllister,” said Ford, “was just making fast to the pler, about feet to the westward of the dynamite barge. I was standing in the door ithe galley getting ready to pass a line to a deckhand on the pler. Then It @s though the whole world had hit me on top of the head. “What happened I don't know. I came to in the water paddling. When I Mt in the water I was nearly one hundred feet from the tug. As I look at it pow, it seems that I was sucked from the tug by a back current of air, carried clean over the wreckage and out into the river, Pier No. 6, @ corrugated iron structure, was crumpled like a mi of rv. Small boats and tugs lying alongside this pier were wrecked. The k Ingrid, just in from Buenos Ayres with a cargo of bones, and lying at No. 7, was dismasted by the force of the exploston. The bones from this cargo were blown out of the hatches, which had just been opened, and distributed for miles along the waterfront of Bayonne. After the explosion the hand and arm of a man were found entangled in the rigging of the bark. A longshoreman, standing on the pier alongside the rid and just about to start in with a gang to upload the cargo of bones, his head blown off. His decapitated body was found in the hold of the bark. ” Tugboatmen and others who were in the vicinity of the explosion say thet there were some fifteen men at work on the end of Pier No. 7 and on the dynamite barge, transferring explosive from the freight cars to the barge. None of these was seen after the explosion. It was supposed that an arm and hand blown into the rigging of the Ingrid are all that was left of one of them. The first man found dead in the hold of the Ingrid was identified as Bigano Moro of No. 11 Conover street, Brooklyn, Later the body of his brother, Michaclo, was found in the debris. One of his arms had been torn off and it was supposed that his was the arm which hung in the rigging al of the ship. | JERSEY CFNTRAL DV POT TORN APAPT. wrecked the Jersey Central Rall- ed as if it had been » twisted and the it in reconstruction. 1 Was piled and ‘The shock of the explosion practically road station. The corrugated irog roof was torn and rip tightly stretched cloth, the iron pillars and beams we: framework so bent that it will be impo Every pane of glass was smashed and the IMttered with debris I, train dispatcher stuck to hls job in spite of the i the shock and stopped the ruaning of tralns in or out of With the exception of reporters who went to use the telephone: the only person in the station, The roof of the train shed was torn away In sections sible to use main wating po id great pleces of iron hung in jagged sections from the beams to the ground In their slips the ferryboats Somerville and Plainfield were moored. The Somerville had just discharged her passen when the explosion came. Every windowpane in her was broken and the shower cut the faces of sev- eral of her crew. The Plainfleld had the same experience. A lighter of the Lehigh Valley line was moored a short distance north of the location of the explosion. The pier, undermined, fell, smashing upon the lighter, burying it beneath the water. Two men who were on the lighter sank, but came to the surface and were picked up and sent to St ____THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1911. | Wrecked | | on the plers without attention and three United States Express wagons were pressed Into service and rushed to the hospitals filled with wounded. FERRYBOAT SHATTERED BY BLAST. The ferry-boat La! ‘ood was leaving the Communipaw slip and was swinging to the northward, bound for Manhattan, when the explosion oc- curred, The starboard side of the ferry-boat was crushed in and splintered. | About twenty of the passengers were injured. The captain of the Lake- | wood, seeing the destruction that had been wrought by the explosion to the Communipaw ferry-house, and convinced that his damage was all above the water line, kept right on to the Liberty street slip In New York. The first outside aid to reach Communipaw was furnished by Police Sergeant Bogert and a detail of men from Harbor Squad A. Their boat was alongside Pier A. at the Battery at the time of the explosion. The echo had not died away before the nose of the little craft was pointed toward the | cloud of smoke on the Jersey side of the bay. As the Manhattan police boat approached Communipaw, ploughing through ' the mass of pulverized wreckage, a man was seen swimming aimlessly! toward the shore. He was dragged aboard the police boat and proved to be/ Harry Ford, the cook of the tug William McAllister, He was minus his right ear and had a big cut In his scalp. Manhattan felt the shock plainly. South Brooklyn and Columbia Heights were slammed as though by a terrific blast of alr coming from the wei ward that blew out windows and set solid buildings trembling. The sensation in the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan was one that! those who went through the experience will remember to tneir dying day The great structures of steel quivered and rocked from eide to side. There 1s no more substantial building in the city than the Pulitzer Building. ! The rocking senga:ion was plainly felt by those sitting in their chairs in the editorial rooms of The World on the twelfth fluor and in the tower. i Within ten seconds after the shock thousands of windows 1n the sky-| scrapers were opened and tens of thousands of heads popped out into the chilly alr, With one accord those who sought to find whac had happened turned their gaze to the southward or the southwest. the shock came from that direction. GLASS SHOWERED IN CITY STREETS. | In Manhattan the brunt of the shock was felt below Fulton street. | Acres of glass were blown out of windows and skylights. were blown from the windows of stores aud distributed along the sidewalks. | In all the streets in the financial districts the sidewalks and pavements were littered with broken glass. In some places the debris was ankle deep Horses showered with glass ran away and thousands of pedestrians were injured more or tsa severely. The women operators on the upper floors of the Western Union Building at Broadway and Dey streets became panic stricken and ran for the win- dows. That old structure fairly jumped from the effect of the shock. Chairs | and desks leaped from the floor, All along Broadway, from the Post-Office down, the fronts of stores anu the pla‘e-glass windows of banks on both sides of the street, were pulle! out of their frames by the suction after the blast. The buildings emptied of their tenants in @ stream, and Broadway was densely packed with a panic-s.ricken crowd, A battalion of fire apparatus plunged through the mob to Wall street and Broadway, followed by ambalancés, and hung about until the real loca- tion of the blast was found, A peculiar freak of the suction was that no two adjoining windows were broken In the high buildings which had windows overlooking the harbor all the glass was smashed and many clerks and other occupants were cut by broken glass. 650 IMMIGRANTS TOSSED BY SHOCK. Ellis Island caught nearly the whole blast of the explosion. Fifty of the officials were in the restaurant at the west end of the main bullding at luncheon and 650 of the 1,000 immigrants on the island were in the main dining room, The floor heaved as though with an earthquake and then the win dows were driven in, Waitresses were knocked down by flying sheets o glass. Many of the diners were blown from their chairs and hurled against the walls. Every plate of glass on the island was shattered, from their hinges, Government property. All the medical Inspectors of the Immigration Bureau were set to work Jaressing the wounds of the scores of men and women who were cut and | bruised. The whole Institution was like a hospital. A little tug called the Dewey, puMng and straining to get a coal barge away from Pier No, 7, was almost blown out of the water by the force of It appeared as though | Stocks of goods | Doors were torn The damage wus roughly estimated at $100,000 to the concussion ‘The captain of the Dewey was found unconsclous in the pilot house, He was hurried to New York on another tug. Apparently his injuries were mortal. The a involved in the destructive effect of the explosion extends for vlong the Communipaw waterfront. Fully a dozen tugs and as iy more barges and lighters were utterly wrecked. Several larger ves- are wrecked so far as their upper works were concerned. ‘actories and warehouses along the water front were so shaken and ed that many were condemned soon after the explosion, ployees were jost getting ready to go out to lunch stairways were thrown down and injured, y ambulance In City and Bayonne was started for the Communtpaw docks as soon as the scene of the accident was located, The ‘explosion occurred at a remote point and it was hard to reach it from the land side. The general impression in lower Jersey City was that the Stand- ard Ol] plant at Constable Hook had blown up. The City Hall at Jersey City, at Grove and Montgomery streets, seemed to crack and rend in the concussion of the explosion. It was found that the main supporting pillar had cracked, Inspectors of the Building De- partment were summoned to see if the structure was liable to fall down. No one will be permitted in the buliding until! an examination has been made, wrene The em- Those who were on Hl Jersey 1) HUNDREDS HURT; PANICS IN 5 BOROUGHS\§ GRAPHICSTC STORY OF WRECK, OF SURGING CITY CROWDS AND RUIN CAUSED BY GRASH (Continued from First Page.) xcept toothlike ends of these er next above it on the north was a perm: ructure with metal sides and lots of glass windows in Its sides. From the lower wall the strips of corrugated fron sheathing were torn oft and, stacked up on the deck ike huge playing cards, All the windows were gone and you could look through from side to side. tween the destreyed pier and the badly damaged one a four-masted brig was moored. She had been four-masted—/ she wasn't any more. Two of Ler masts stood yet, toppling crazily with their rigging hanging on them in a night- marish tangle of broken spars and tangled ropes, One mast was broken— blown short off—and its sp intered stump sticking up like a huge frowsy whisk broom, ‘The fourth was gone entirely, It had been lifted out of its step like @ tooth out of its socket, All a Wierd Jumble. All about and in the shadow of these central objects there was a wierd Jumble of lighters and tugboats, all showing signs of damage in scarred sides and the empty sockets of portholes where glass had been. The water was covered for an eighth of a mile out with a thick, greasy scum. This was shredded debris, | broken up so fine that one might have skimmed It off the surface with a 5) almost. In this coating on the were such things as a mattress, a hat and scraps of what loo men's drill jumpers, but which might have been bits of sail cloth. The river Was brown with this stuff. A tug came puffing out of the he |of the ruck, convoying » little steam | hotster that had been vight some- where in the zone «the smash. Th wooden deckhouse on this hoister was flattened down on its float into a wierd likeness to @ crushed by Somebody called out that two men had been killed on board this holst. In the presence of a disaster which we knew must be so | ws spread the death of only two seemed a mere incident. Like Sweep of a Typhoon. Men were getting up steam on two mauled and blistered tugboats. They ooked as if they had been through a typhoon by way of a blast furnace and out again, Their paint was scorched and thelr cabin windows were gaping soles, ‘The smokestack of one of them Was skewed to one side, drunkenly. 1 read thelr name in a passing glim the Commodore and the D. B, Hard- wick, Later 1 heard that they had been saved by the happy circumstance that they were sheltered behind a row o loaded freight cars that stretched be tween them and the dynamite ligh As Sergeant Dobert shot the nose of} the police launch right into the little ‘ove where lighter Catharine W, had once been, some men on a tugboat yelled to us and began pointing at something inder the side of thelr own boat, We urned and ran up to them, They were rying to drag out of the water a young! ellow, half conscious, who hung to a in The policemen hauled him aboard the aunch, He was Harry Ford, cook of the owsoat Wiliam McAllister, and the mly man who went Into the water to ye saved alive. He had been standing nthe galley door of his tug Just back Mf the place where the men were load- ng the lighter, passing out a hand «1 then he found } in the wa- 100 feet from shore Was Remarkably Calm, For a man who had been blown elghty c and forty feet up and had one ear cut off and his se t out p split open he was a remarkably calm young man. He said he didn't see or hear anything snusual—just found himself swim) The writer left the policemen minister Ing to this victim and by way of two smashed up zs he climbed aboard the long caved-in metal-walled pier, A group « tugboat hands 1 there s pidly and doing nothing, T like men in a daze. “How many are dead?" echoed a man} who had the look about him of «| mate, “God knows! Everybody aboard that pler I guess is gone. One of my men gays he saw two ‘bodies drift by a bit ago, but I've seen nothing.” There a line of freight cars be- tween me and the shore, The sides were shucked off these o hunks off ears of corn and some of the cars weer shifted from thelr trucks. You could look in dnywhere as you ng stu ney seemed In the litttle pocket be- | _| cooks on the company’s iboats. .| Were loaded on an express wagon and premen and sailors and | ¢ ra like the! Jersey Central Pier at the Scene of the Dynamite Explosion | Carrying Out the Wcunded Men to the Ambulances in Waiting __ WRECKED FREIGHT CAR. PIER 6 passed and see their jumbled together | contents, A man staggering shoreward alongside these cars a few paces ahead me. His face was cut by broken | glass out of semblance to a face. He dropped on the earth on the end of the p just as’ an ambulance surgeon | reached him. In half a minute with of temporary banaage swathing wa ards is head he was in an ambulance on his | way to St. Francis'’s Hospital in Jersey ¥. The surgeon paused in his work of binding up the man long enough to tell me that two express wagons loaded with injured had already been taken away, “And I guess there are plenty more waiting for us," he added, as he knot- ted the bandages into a grotesque tur- ban effect around the victims skull. Windrow of Wreckage. To get around to the pier where the dynamite went off I was forced to make a wide detour because there rose in the path a sort of windrow of wreck- | age as high a8 a man’s head. My route orought me in line with the Central of New Jersey's station, and I ran through it. It, too, was @ wreck ine side, The walls, of course, had stood, but the huge skylights in the top of the train shed and in the waiting room were all blown out and the fragments of glass from above still dropped in Jagged showers. The barber shop and the restauran: opening off the waiting room were gutted and what had been inside them— food and barbers’ tools and tableware— strewed the floors as if a smail cyelone had been swirling mside the building. The tcket booths were all smasued and men S.o0d guard over the money and the tickets inside them, Everything was | covered deep with a film of light dust like powdered pumice, A lone telephone who had stuck to ner post and | vending in call lodked as if she dipped head first in a barrel of wood ashes. The Crowd Kept Back. On what was left of Pler 7 1 found a ‘dozen or more Jersey policemen charg- Ing about a) y and giving orders to which paid any heed what- |soever, They had lost their heads too, or else there we: hot enough of them to spread a fire line. Depot hands their roofs were lifted off the sides, but, helped them to hod the crowds oack. miracle as it seemed, the boxed-up ex- A stream of officials, fir , surgeons which ran up into the tons, nd newspaper men were filtering past nset ff. It we the biggest them and running down tne pier It of all, that wonderful picture was hard to pick your way along. The dock was piled up with wreckage, most | One Man Remembers. of it broken fine but some in big pie And yet the forward car of the string It was silppery and wet from the} Wasn't a hun Catherine W one man wh: sucked out of of the explosion water which had bee: the river by the fore had been moored, could remember just how I found and sprayed over it, And everywhere | things looke. on the lighter a minute there were clots of red and m | before the crash came. This man was bones of beef cattle. I knew where the| one Dillon, a Brooklyn Irishman who red clots had come from, and in a min-| wa was aboard the Sigrid to check out the cargo for the consignee, “Phere were about fifteen men et work on the lighter at the end of the ute I to know the place came to be covered with th odorous ribs and shoulder blames how who.e | 0 | d horns of cows, | pier," said illon, “It was just 12 Just an hour before the crash came | o'clock and the hands in another min- the dingy four-master Sigrid, a Nor-| ute would have knocked off for lunch, wegian bark, had landed on the lower side of Pier 7 to disvharge a cargo of future glue and buttons. A gang of Itallan ‘longsaoremen had swarmed xboard her and rigged slings and had siarted to heave out her smelly freight The explosion, would seem, liited vodily into the sundry tons of the bones and horns and scattered them everywhere, on the water, on her decks and even on the iand, a Worst Horror of Ail, SEAN Here the worst horror of all was to} be found. The crowd of light haired | Scandinavians who made up her crew | gNDON PLuMes unap reached in bo irri nro in pop . from Deal to wu 10% profit Then something let go and I found my- self buried under half a ton of smashed stuff. I dug my way out and looked ward the pler end. “It wasn't there-pier, Mghter, the fifteen men and a freight car—they were all_gone.”” it ntful mess that covered thelr ship. | his wasn't the worst thing, Down | hold, on the bones, you! could see two bodies, one of them head- | less and in what was left of the freight | sling thirty feet aloft dangled a human arm still in its burnt sleeve, caught fast in a knot where two lines crossed. The fireboat New Yorker and two po- lce boats from Manhattan had landed | alongside the Sigrid and Chief Croker, | Fire Commissioner Waldo and other New York officials were on the wrecked pier, doing what they could to help. It was Waldo who found a long string of FEATHER C0. CAPT. LAMB’S EXPERIENCES, | Capt. John T. Lamb, the pler captain of the Jersey Central, was in his office on Pier 5 with two of his assistants, he | sald, taking applications from two young men who wanted to go to work as| Capt. Lamb was taking down thetr names when the side of the office blew non all of them, The whole party of five crawled out from the wreck and |taken to @ tug, which carried them to |New York. Jersey Central oMclals | | went to the hospital and took Capt |Lamb and his assistants away, but William Netlson and Frederickson, the two boys who were hunting for jobs, were turned loose in the street in bheir bandages to make room for people more badly cut, Robert Abelard, 000 Myrtle avenue, a surveyor, of No. was in the station, | he said, when a skimming sheet of glass j cut off the top of ny hat, It went mand nearly cut in half a man who was ten fect away from him, Abelard fainted and became conscious again on a ferry-boat sing to New York, Hurled Against Wall Isaac Lehman of Newark, was in near the ferry slips, He was thrown asainst ‘the outerwall of the @hed. 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