The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1911, Page 3

WHOLE FINANCIAL DISTRICT IN WILDEST EXCITEMENT, DAMAGE IS WIDESPREAD eS Windows Crash Into Streets from Battery to} Harlem, Walls Tremble and Trains on Elevated and setae Ss Feel Shock. TA the city's big buildings the shock of the explosion created the wildest excitement. “A ‘full-sized panic occurred in the home of the Standard Ot! Company at No, 26 Broadway | The first idea that leaped to the minds of the thousands in No. 26 Broad | way was that an effort had been made to assaf! John D. Rockefeller with | bomb, John PD. Archbold was halt-thrown from his chair, and rushed ow with his clerks into the corridors. Shouts rang out from every landing in] way and a pante followed. The same! the building, and a swarm of clerks and| may tbe yecorded of what happened in | stenograph flowed ke a cataract | eve big skyscraper on both sides of | —_ down the staircase and t into | Hroadway. Windows were blown In| the street to join the gddying masses of! throw, ‘ough the west walls of the Bowitnr tear-stricken humanity. Gren Buildihg and sucked out of the nic in Morgan Offic | Broadway walls. The plate-glass win- | ‘There was the wildest sort of downs of the brokerage offices of J. 8. @ panic in the Drexel Building, where J. Pp, | Bache & Co., bankers and brokers Morgan & Co. have their office. The | No. 42 Broadway, were blown tn at upper windows of the bullding fell out | ¢V@T¥ person in the offices was thrown with @ roaring crash, and clerks end! down by the shock members of the firm were thrown from | thelr chains. | The first impression of those in the Drexel Building who felt the shock was that a dynamite bomb had heen ex- J ¥)\ ploded under them. Men with blanched faces ran out Into Che street and a great | After the shock of the explosion had assed the offices of Flower & Co,, at No, ® Broadwa hed as if a terrific! one had visited them. ‘Nhe windows | 1 blown in and the glass of all the tions had been #hattered. Several clerks were cut by fying glass and 60 ,@owd swarmed about the bullding, | badly hurt that they reqtired medical jeome shouting hysterically and others | attention. ; teo frightened to whisper | Probably the worst downtown panic The panic inthe Drexel Bullding was] occurred in the Hudson Terminal Build- @uplicated on the floor of the Stock ings. The huge structures rocked and Exchange and in the Mills Buliding and! swayed and the crash of glass roared Broad Exchange Building. } out on every side. Showers of giass fell down upon the) ‘The shock wae distinotly felt on the curb brokers on Broad street and many'| aifrerent levels of the concourse im the were ‘cut. In running out of the Stock | basement, and a throng of ‘men and Exchange several brokers were cut bY/ women rushed up from the platforms fiying glass. | Of the tube station below. This ex- Mayor Gaynor and Comptroller Pren- | cited throng met another mass of surg- dergast were discussing the matter of/ing, milling humanity coming down depositing $60,000,000 obtained by the city | from the floors above. All were shout- from the recent sale of municipal stock | ing out inquiries, but none could give in the Mayor's office when the shock of an intelligent reply. the explosion almost threw them from To ad to the confusion and hyeterta their chairs. (Mr. Prendergast jumped a fire alarm had been turned tn and up and exclaimed, “My God, what's three pieces of fire apparatus came that?” Mayor Gaynor turned white and | pelting down Church street. was? ‘tiantfestly alarmed. Secretary Adamso: jh if the May Women Fas n rushed in to see ff the Mayor | ane predominant tnpression wethin tas all right and then rushed out again. os the Terminal Buildings was thet the City Hall Shaken. vollere hed blown up or that there hed City Hall had been ehaken to tte| been some sort of @ ontamity in the foundations. ‘The clerks of the Mayor's | tube. Fully two thousand persone poured staff began telephoning industriousty to | out of the great structure in a clamor- find out where the explosion had oc- | ous masse. In two of the entrances the | eurred. They did not learn for half an | revolving doors stuck, and several wo- hour. men fainted before the doors gave way The Stewart Building, comer of Cham-| ana the strugglig press flowed ont into SO een eee : __THE EVENING DAMAGE SPREAD 0 WuSLD, Bi Sith dd habe FOBRU ULAR’ . 1011, ae e eee Two Ferryboats That Were in the Zone of the 1" Explosion’s Terrific Force---How They Were Battered OO sate 1a] > Lar stent aes nani Cee AT Pan. OF THLE MERRY BOAT SOMFRV/L 4 ‘FIRE GONGS RING ALARM | FROM OVER ENTIRE CITY: Conflicting Reports Send Engines Racing About and! GROKEN R7/N DOW Firemen Find Many Injured in Streets—Police | Ls! Stations Shaken. | Fire Headquarters became a scene of the utmost confu atter the! explosion, for none of those in charge could get any Mne on what had hap. pened, and alarms from many quarters were fairly tearing the gongs out | from the walls, Deputy Fire Commissioner Johnson got a dozen conflicting reports ot} where the disaster was located, but could not learn for half an hour just | what had happened. | The firemen who went out with the ywn in and the diners at ) apparatus gided many of the inj ired ples showered with glass | who were “hurt on the streets and a a8 Eecy ut. Many persons wero | sisted in getting ambulances for those Peet thelr chairs and a pante| ollower who were badly hurt. The explosion broke windows tn all | the police stations south of Canal street | ‘Tho hysteria of fear caused by this unparalleled hatec spread even to the | politemen on patrol. Seeing the dust FERRY BOA and in several of the station houses fur-jand powdered gl ; T LAKEWOOD AT HER PIER AT ther uptown. Two windows cracked in | butlaings, jean Sune THER: __ COMMUNIPAW A the Blizabet street station. ‘The re- eserves were hustled out from all these stations, and they had not gone @ dozen yarde beyond their thresholds before they found some injured person to min- ister to. In five minutes the police of the Mitza- beth street station, a precinct far re- moved from the scene of worst disaster, found @ dozen men and women who had | been hurt. Hurled fro: Scats. In ecoves of restaurants that were! beginning to Ml up diners were thrown | from their seats a the plate glass windows blew out. In the big Childs! restaurant on Broadway near Liberty | BOILER EXPLOSION CAUSE, IS COMPANY’S EXPLANATION Railroad Officials Say That Blow Up Was Responsible’ for Igniting eionter Loon With Dynamite. the fire box call at the corner of West Broadway and Chamhers street It ts believed that many of the multt- | tude of fire alarms turned in were sere ! ' ' | | by policemen or other oMciais, There Was a frenzied rush of city employees from the City Hall and many of them were seen to sprint toward fire boxes. There was a big display of rubber | coats tn windows of the building at No. 182 Broadway. | the ground floor the The windows on were blown out and a score of rubber coats floated out and shoulders of passers-\ <1 pedestrians fled fro ne the gar | The fol 1! sued ments ius owing statement has been ts- | the ratiroa From the be ured, by bestowed upon be se bers street and Broadway, where the! the atreet street the plate glass windows were Jewelry on: Streets, Were direc oncerned ‘having t Comptrolier and City Chamberlain have} From the dig barber shop on the Cort-| smashed and three butter on | The piate-elass windows of J. M1. | Jured and removed to | , their offices, was seriously damaged by | jandt street side of the buildings e dozen | Working in the window badly cut, There Carey's Wally MOTO WENO. Uh twas | ings ietun othe the explosion and the Broadway wall| men rusied out in thelr shirt steeves, | Was a Wild seramble of the diners ty vay Wele wicked out and fell In aplin- + appears eracked in two places. By a strange| helt shaved and dripping lather. ret out, (candeaw outa dowahttese ot isenes |« was tra freak no windows were broken, but! eral had deen etightly cut as they ‘This acene wan duplicated tna dozen | sna fountain pent, ut the werk wean dynamite at the oute orks were thrown from their stvola!caped from the razors held by the bar- | other restaurants of the Kind along) aged to rescue them from under Jersey City, and the entire bufding rocloed and | pers. Broadway, and there was a panic 1M/ tee. of the throng that soon was ru “No one who was o nthe job has bee trembled. Directly efter the explosion w7was| the Childs, Dennet's and Dolay’s res-| ing alout blindly in the | 0 nid aes bet Ae ‘The emeniy wat! of the building was| reported that the top floora of the|teurants on Park Row, all of\whtch /eycitemont that followed t Jwhat took place, ris removed whtle the Immigrant | United States Express Company's build. | suffered some damage Reed Poniervilie of tha Naw! dares of the Ma 1 { Teaversial Savings Bank's new building! ing at No. 1 Rector etreet had been | Al! of tho sront windows of the Royal ae ee a eaie | wan an a Pleas es ‘~\ was going up. A wooden wall was aub-| thrown out of plumb. ‘This was dented | 'YPewriter Company, at Franklin street the Somerville hid stopped **%® et of his kno aituted, whereby the building waa made| by the officers of the company. They | #4 Broadway, were blown out and a) am to allow another craft to| #4 bellet upon the } vulnerable to sich @ terrific shaking. | eamitted, however, that hundreds of | &reat showe: of glass fell on the heads! The shock seemed to or tuboat in After Comptrolier Prendergast had in-| windows had been broken and that! Of those walking on the pavement be- from the ladies’ must have set e vestigated the damage to the building|thore had been a hyeterical panic|!0W. Five persons were cut, but after of the windows tn that “Portunately t ee es aid he feared that {t would be dan- i having their injurtes attended to went Were sinasiied lida tepouted Aecsertes err {> rociaiatn tas sttlone Ho is | PapRenaNs We, stra ctiTe . |to their homes without giving their) ‘Tue alr trembled for several mon ployeca A conali eH Have you tried it? ere. An! Onty one wietow sbove the seven, and then @ great yettlow cloud seemed It’s Good for Hot & Cold Meats. levator in the building was eo shaken | teenth story was shattered, but all of | UENO SL to rise up from the water and bring (°V. “ere out Soy uying . thet & etuck between the fourth and|tne windows” on the @tteenth, etx-| FOr @ mile along West street there] with it a stinging acrid, odor. "The “its the da fined vers It makes a Fine Salad Dressing fifth “floors. teenth end seventeenth stories were, YA* em uninterrupted vista of havoc) frightened women rushed out of the|!'*¥ely to brelken glis Lo andy oat Tish Bowes hy Aeding RAERE: ‘There’ was e panic on practically| blown in or eucked out, and in many [caused by the explosion. Thousands of cabin to the decks and the deckhands ': this. T 1 at 1, 10 CENTH. bpoon with Bottle, every floor of the Singer and City In-| omces where the windows fell in clerks windows were broken and some front | Thven just as alarmed and confused, where the explosion took pla valis of 4 brick structures were! n the pilot thought for ent y dam < ‘he 2 vestment ulldings ani many plateland stenographers were out by splin-|WAll 4% 0 oy the dotle Ree peae pagtene | UaGle Rameged glass Windows were blown out on the/ tere of glass. eked. Whereree. ne: staan Ontee eat eae ie ed the dynamite was 1s - lower floors, The huge plate gines win- quire he heard of persons thrown from | M0 SAL Cr sna Ws ne | oor and trucks remaining, Other ca Tt at tho Waurane Gato to te Ow Hare's Narrow Escape. thelr feet, of persons bruised and of per Dslot onan was sintered the vi snore or jens damm, WE UPHOLSTER YOUR James Hare, photographer for Col- Ner's Weekly, who has Kodaked queer and unusual objects afl over the world and who mwas in the midst of the most Gepperate batties in the Russo-Japanese war and never got « ecratch, narrowly missed death while trying to get & photograph of to-day's disaster. He fell from a pier butthead at Com munipaw tnto the river and had gone | down for the second time when I’atrol- | man Burns of the Jersey City force jumped in and rescued him. The Weet Street Butlding on the cor- ner of Liberty street was in the path of the most powerful reverberration of the explosion. Every ground floor plate glass window én the two lower floors of the butlding were demolished and not @ story above escaped tome damage. shower of glass reined down | erty and Went streets and several pa tng truckmen were cut. Investment Builldi:: ‘ell out with » roaring crash, and three men standing @ the bar were thrown down. Cries of Alarm. ‘The orles of frightened stenographers and the shouts of alarm.” olerke ran; through every high building. In the Singer and City Investment buildings there was a 6 ..npede ‘or the elevators and @ rush down the stairways. The old buliding that houses the Con- solidated Exchange seemed to rook back and forth with the impact of the explosion and the brokers darted to the { street in panic. An Immense mob soon filled Broadway and wherever one looked he saw some man or woman cut and bleeding from the showers of glass that continued to fall for severa! min- after the shook. In the Building. =’ Windows cracked on every floor in the | tall Columbia Butiding at No. 29 Broad. | iat EES | a | HARBURGER MAKES R RECORD. | fa Turns In ixth Report on| Its Progression or' oe Deputy State Comptroller Harburger | whore deparrment handles the transter tnx reports, stated to-day that hie of | | Retrogression made a record during the mont! Tt Is a well known fact that enterprises January in making appraisals, Hl either prosper or fall, © wpprateal of the estate of Chartes | ‘They seldom, If ever, stand still, |S. Ward, who died July 10, 1910, waa the | Last year The World printed 107,369 | ritty-sixth report filed by Mr, Harbur- | “Real Estate” advertisements—a GAIN of wer Mr. Ward mac any onaéite | nequies oh went to the institutions 10,866 over 1909, Junder control of the Dutch Reformed ‘These facts make It quite clear that | '! 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