The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1911, Page 4

: 4 Raper THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Somes OF WILD REPORTS FOLLOW fr + ASH OF BLAST CAPTAIN OF OCEAN TU FINDS TWO ALIVE OF 20 Pulitzer Building Scarcely Stops Shaking Until,Only Splinters of Powder @ Powder Bont Left When Conflicting Stories of Scene of Explosion Begin to Pour In by Telephone. The Home edition of The Evening World was going to press when the thock of the explosion boomed acrosa the North River, ¢ skyscrapers of Manhattan and apprised millions that some remarkable dis- qarbance had taken place. Those on the upper floors of the skyscrapers felt the rocking of the build ings before the sound of the explosion (The stout Pulitzer Building gave a) Pagceptibie heave to the north, then set- tle@ back. For a swond the thought leaped into the minds of those who | had experienced the shock that an earthquake had visited the metropolis. Then the dull boom of the eyplosion | waa heard. The slated window shades at the open windows on the southerly wie of the Evening World editorial rooma were forced inward by the power Of the blast that had travelled over two mites, Phones Ring Excitedly. Almost instantly the telephone bells In the Evening World office began to tinkle. And there followed an aval anche of the most remarkable misin- formation that ever a newspaper of- fee encountered. A breathiess individual declared that one of the big fireworks houses in Park place just off Broadway had blown up. He was in the throes of a harrowing description when another volunteered that anarchists had blown up the office of J. Pierpont Morgan. “The whole side of the building ts lying out in Wall tareet!” shouted this Halt a dozen men called up at once to explicitly state that the explosion wee in Liberty street between Green- ich and Church streets. They were cut into by a man telephoning from the Battery who swore that a tig steam- ship had blown up o the Battery. He had seen the explosion from the sea wail. “Another, telephoning from the Rat- tety, volunteered that a powder maga- reached them wine had blown. up on Governor's Island. This man could see the great cloud of smoke arising from where he stood and | faid that the loss of iife among the | solfiers must have been tremendous, Brooklyn Next. Brooklyn tras next heard from. Vol- unteers of information said there had been a big explosion in the Bush Stores. Another gave the scene of the explosion as the Navy Yard. Hoboken chipped in with tthe news that a ship of the North German Lioyd Iine had blown up At hi dock, People in Jersey City and Hoboken thought the explosion had ov- curred in Manhattan, A volunteer newagatherer telephoned in that a botler had exploded in an apartment how Sixteenth stre and the shook upper part of the city. were between 150 and 175 false alarms. | ‘All this time reporters were trying | Harbor police etation at Pier A. They were Antonio Youngstad, It! appeared to be plain that it happened | their beat to locate the explosion. somewhere along the water front be- low Jersey City. Telephonic commu- nication wai ablished with the Tide- water O11 Company at Bayonne, and it was found that the big plant there wan uninjured Some twenty minutes after the crash a former employee of The Hvening World, now located on Ellis Isiand, information about the disaster, porters of The Evening World wi Communipay gathering the facts rumor | - mongers kept on telegraphing imeginary stories of explosions. PANIC ON BIG FERRYBOATS; SCORES ON BOARD INJURED. Windows and Partitions on the Lakewood and Somer- ville Shattered as Passengers Dash Back and Forth in Wildest Excitement. The ferryboat Lakewood of the Jersey Central Raflroad, which had just etarted out of the Communipaw terminal for Liberty street, Manhattan, when the explosion occurred, had a thrilling trip across the river. There were more than 200 passe: ere on board, all of whom had alighted from a train from Philadelphia and the W ‘The force of the explosion broke every made a rush for the gangplanks, Many window gn the starboard side of the boat, showered the passengers in the starbotnd stateroom with glass and #mashed the partition between the apace Teserved for pansengers and that re- served for horses on the lower deck. Many whglows on the port side of the | boat were broken too. ant Aemeseeen HA Boat for Manhat- tan anf hold to his course There was the wildest kind of a pa among the pasengers. Some men ti to get to the upper deck, with the ob- fect of forcing the captain to turn back, ‘They were pushed down the companton ways by deckhands. Women screamed rushed from end to end of the boat. Home fifteen er twenty were Mead from cuts inflicted by broken glass and splintered timbers. The screaming and tumult on the ferryboat was heard on shore long be- fore the slip was reached. As the Lake- * wood was made fast the passengers to were knocked down and trampied on, Dozens of velis, pairs of gloves and handbags w. abandoned. Dr, Herrman Muller of the Jersey City Hospital was the first surgeon to reach the scene As he began hts work the worst injured many people nim, that oo after being blown from pore and “igs “They told me of men Jumping over- board from ferrybonts after it was all over,” Dr, Muller said, men I was working on sad that he saw eight or ten men, some of them with cut faces, struggling in the water within fory feet of where he himself lay help- 8 “The big steel pier was badiy dam- aged. There were fifty men at work there I heard and there was none of Patients them left when I got there. told me that they thought many if not al lof them must have been blown into the water.” Find Headless Body, Also a Head Quarter of Mile From Accident. Two Men Blown From Tug as They Turned to Shout Warning of Danger of Explosion. ‘The headiess body of a man was dis- covred at a little after 3 o'clock on the rot of coal pier No, 9, quarter of a mile from the pier where the Catharine W. was moored, On pler No. 7 were also the head and shoulder of another man. John McVickar and Tom Toole, of the crew of the lighter McAllister, were blown from the deck into the water They hed seen the cases of dynamite Sip from the hoisting sling of the crane plates from a freight car to a lighter, Waa blown out of the car, across th: deck of his Mghter and thrown into th water, Robert Burnett, captain of the McAl- was blown from his pilothouse to the deck and | He was fished out by men of his own crew and sent Aster tug, John Tuohy jr., then rolled overboard. to New York for treatment. A force of firemen and Building De- began digging at the partment laborers rromed among the men in possession of his eenses to reach the scene of disaster. “One of the He Arrived—A Score of Men Blown to Bits Unloading Bone. Capt. W. A. Rex of the ocean tug Fred B. Dalzell was one of the first He was be- haves Ellis Island and Communipaw when the crash came. Hoe had just turned over the wheel to his mate, William Barth, to go down to lunch. At the foot of the companionway he was thrown to the deck by the up- heaval of the bow of the boat, which whirled about for a moment like @ top. | Capt. Rex clambered back to the pilot house and found Mate Barth halt | junned in @ corner. The Captain took the wheel and headed straight for | the bofling funnel of smoke which was shooting up from the Communipaw pier. ‘When he reached the pier he found the Katharine W., the powder boat, was | merety & bed of floating splinters. There was no living thing in the floating | wreckage. | Om the other side of the plor was the wreck'of the bark Ingrid, just in from Buenos Ayres with a cargo of hones. A crew of twenty-five laborers had been Working in the hold untosding the bones when the explosion happened. | “When we got there,” said Capt. Rex, “we could only find two of them. The rest must have been blown to bits or else had run away before we Teached them, There was dead man in the fore hold and there were arms and legs and things hanging in the rigging.” Capt. Rex brought the two Injured men, who wore unconscious, to the the steward of the Ingrid, and Peter Anderson, the mate, ——--—_+¢< CRASH SHAKES BROOKLYN, CAUSING PANIC IN CHURCH Entire Borough Feels the Shock—Supreme Court Justice and Police Officials Startled — Windows Shattered as Far Out as Hempstead. The force of the explosion was felt in Brooklyn nearly as much as on the sheltered side of Manhattan. The Supreme Court Building rocked with such violence that judges left the bench and with lawyers and witneses ran into the corridos in the belief thet the explosion had occurred in the bullding Iteelf. At Brooklyn police headquarters, | persons, fearing an earthquake, rushed where Commiastoner Cropsey was hold-| from their houses, ing trials, there was another scare of Felt on Brooklyn Bridge. the same sort, and Inspector Dillon,! The shock of the explosion was felt Inspector Russet! and the Commissioner | distinctly by persons crossing the Brook- Were among the first to reach the street. |Iyn hie Many windows were blown Glass was broken in store windows | out alc n street, Brooklyn, and a1 along Fulton, Smith, Livingston, | Sime of the ite demectoen: cement in Columbia and State streets, and At-| In Arvuckle’s barrel factory, at War- lantic, Flatbush and Myrtle avenues. ren and Hicks street, there was a shock Big sheets of lass suffered more| ‘hat rocked the buliding, having force than smaller panes cause of the pur- enough to set off the automatic fire chase which they gave the suction. macny Police reserves and a relay of ¢ apparatus responded to the cal Nearly all the windows of the Brook- all lyn Polytechnic Institute were shat- The shock was felt in the neighbor- tered, hood of Prospect Park, and there was A cornice of the National Casket! Breat excitement in the Itallan colony on Columbia street. Windows were |Company's building at Myrtle avenue and Pearl atreet was loosened so that broken in the tenements on Columbia street, and women and children rushed the police roped off the street and sent for the Building Department. out in to the street in a panic, The Plate glass window of the store of 8. As far east as Pacific and Sackman streets, w York, a panlc fal: Brook domiroxed,,. ne ae A L, Lowrle, at No. 427 Seventh avenue, ard aie ‘exp that corner there is the Church of Our Lady of Loretto, of which the Rev. 1. Sorrengino is rector, ‘Lhe neighbor- hood is thickly peopled with Itallans. Recently there has been trouble be- tween the parishioners, One faction sent several Black Hand letters to Father Sorrengino, threatening to blow up the church and the parochial resi- dence, Just as soon as the tremendous force of the explosion wa heard some one raised the cry that the church had been blown up. A wilu rush was made tn the direction of the structure, and the excitable people we! in @ condl- tion of extreme panic. Word reached the Liberty avenue police station, and Bergt Fink, who was in charge, hur+.d out with the reserves, It took fully half an hour to disperse the people. The shock was felt far out on Long Iriand. In the Hempstead Bank Butld- ing doors were shaken open and books knocked from shelves, County Court House was shaken and half-open windows were closed, Many VOTE IN ALBANY ON 13TH BALLOT ON SENATORSHIP. (Special to The Brening World.) ALBANY, “ ae injuries at street ferry 5 the West Twenty-second y Dr, Armstrong e four years cot, Westfleld, . Cut about face and hands, BRILLER, HOWARD, thirty-seven years, No, 21 street, Westfleld, N.'J, Cut about face, COALE, SAMUEL ©, years, Westflek’, N. J. DONOHUB, JO! Hancock etreet, thirty-two | Cut about face. twenty-two, No, ng Island City ds Right Living One of the essentials is over the Catharine W., and had turned | outer end of the wrecked pler late in Cut about face and hi to one another to shout a warning when] the afternoon, They said that the force of the detonation hit then Capt. Robert McAllister, who was on ten pler south of the Catharine W., su- perimtending the unloading of some steel THE DEAD AND INJURED (Continued from First Page.) pier shed had fallen. Tein aireet to Hudion Street Hore] WOOD, MARRIGON D. forty tive |“YAUNDERS, RILAZARBTH, forty. |] equalled for pouabing aad years old, Germantown, Pa., cut about * el ¥ y : segs. SUTTER, L. R., twenty-five years. |face, Hudson Street Hospital. oss reat Rhinebeck, N. ¥, cutadout!] pyilding up body’and brain Vigilane Hotel, Jersey City, fractured] WIGGINTON, George, No. 11@ Pox | Ce arate i i arma and legs; at St. Francis Hospital, | street, Bronx, throat’ cut; Hudson | SAUNDERS, Rev, ERNEST, fitty-two]] to highest efficiency. SWALLOW, CHARLES, No, 0 Glen [Street Hospital, i enning avenve; to Hudson Street Hos-] YOUNGSTED, ANTONIO, twenty-seve | 874 body “There's a Reason” tal. 8. Ingrid, burned about | SCHABPFER, M168 ——, thirty-seven PMOOHEY, JOUN, wurt avout head contustoms; Hudson street | "as! No. 889 West Ninety-ftth str Jersey City) Hospital fain WEIL, Mrs, NATHAN, forty-two Malin GRECO o8, No, 64 Kast ‘Treated in Fi Hi years; No, M6 Bast Fiftieth street. Battle Creek, Mich. Hudson @ ‘ea! in Perry House, , NATHAN, fifty y No. . ‘ations, y KY, CHAR street, lac Hospital, from the statements of men who had escaped they were sure of finding at least nine bodies of men on whom a section of the LADD, DAVID, forty-six years, No. 1077 Adams street, Dorchester, Mass; cut about face and hands, LANDESBERG, MRS, GEORGE, No, 547 West One Hundred and Forty-seo ond street; cut about face and head. Accompanied by nurse, also cut by fying glass Eighty-eighth street, cut about face. forty-two years; years, Rhinobeck, N. ¥.; ‘The Collowing wore treated Cor mings | $4 Ene, Fistieth otreet LIOTTA, FRANK, forty-two yeara No, 844 sirnmT-sevond street, Elina: |] elements of wheat and bar- beth, N. J. . 5 LIOTDA, LOUIS, thirty-six years, ley, and is easy to digest. Blizabeth, N. J. . ROTHSGHILD, Mrs, BIMON, No, 8 East |] The experience of thousands cut about face proper food. ‘eee Contains all the rich food has proven it to be un. 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