The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1916, Page 4

’ |eanxens TRUST ' . _ 2 - COMPANY Se | S. appearance of ali ite windows intatt pr, Trinity Churchyard Covered + Potton, ba altered mid: i ote be 7 yeure teree's of & Certo wl . ©. With a Coating as of : . wes. uted tn thie seomingty hap. | SOME FREAK ESCAPES. 4 wy Y 4 ——— eneolal @ietriet pr f the fringe of « — Damage Extends to Prov hyn, Where Many Windows Are Shattered, Maahettan started out today to! Peeever trom the greatest giase orash and under guard, told of; - Suddenly expored, Ten | stantial than in vacuum cleaners inhaled! t mper streate and the win obiten | dows slighter and of inferior glans, Glace all sight. Automobiles | ire Fie outhern and eastern eides| \de ' charily, for twenty-four mown ol Hutlding between persons going throw ther @treet sweeping had not begun 1 | one third and one-half the windows! greets were ordered to walk the ‘all the jagved splinters, Even! were broken, The Lower I ¥lcentre of the romd to avoid failing * qraves in Trinity's churehyard| skyscrapers, the Field Hullding ama] window framen the ones immediately above and aerons ow: | Wore curious mantles that MparKied | pee frered y a degree leag| CUSTOM nh tt erriear SHOW the morning sunshine Like #0M®) Qoverely, ‘The imposinely lare wine ERED Ww out of season hoar frost, Woods dows above the statuary groupe iny Volice Comminsioner Diggest proviems in the city) the Custom House were shattered, ae out from # @'eve hI the morning 4 ‘ qnough glass to Mit the empty | "A tne tip of the Inland Afty-two| town district and elvewh m , and for the time being the) suytight panes of the Aquarium were) One hundred and t lows were took his place in history far) shivered eimoot Inte, powder, while | blown out CO Toure, won: beneath them not a single gage t urtourly, + gd t to be occupied Dy) omits hundreds containing fen was|Droken wore on the ald broken, ing furthent fr tn eon oxplain the freakinhnons mw attacked jows, Hundreds of ~in- | dows were sont splintering for twonty ‘Glories down. The t door sky- te practically unharmed ex- ‘@ept for two or three windows on Large Office al ALL THE OGONBULATES 8UF- FERED FROM THE 8HOCK, No matter which way one turned from Bowling Green the signs of de- struc’ were the same, Hack down Btate Street the bulldings most of the allied many of the larg had suffered almost paved ther at a dowk i] in P: iw known, street. A third inte p dinary win re ated 's she perdpoee seater BtHeet | aithough the lieve examin: * p je PrOkeD tion to-day may reveal serious losses and Greenwich hove Hattery Plac aon, wer atepped |) by men and women, Hroadway the Standard Ol! Huild. ing showed two big vacant holes tn with the building just above in goods and machinery to loft and wooden factory buildings in wor Manhattan and in Hrooklyn William 'T, Woods, President of Lioyd's Plate Chass Insurance Coms pany, No, William Street, sai “Par from the damage to plate gla running into the millions, [ do not Delleve It will exceed $100,000, The largest plate mans risks, such as the department stores around Thirty. fourth Btreet and the larger Fifth Th National Bank Building] Avenue firma, suffered practically at Wall Street and Broadway, wuf-| not at all. Many large risks, of fered heavily, In the Stock Ex-| course, suffered in the financial dis han, few panes wore amasned |trict, 1 have foun | ; Treamiry encaped. Two of|than might be mi " thick} streets, such as Eig’ . Mor-|the Twenties, and even further up- 4 Broad town.” ingerl; a, Ay Shere Ge uae LERT and active little folks just love the excitement of rollin’ hoops! And they are alert and active, too, when Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes are served, No hesitating on the part of grown folks either, for the flavor and crispness of Kellogg’s appeal to young and old, Packed Waxtite—Look for this signature, Tultations come and ‘They change their form, ue 'e—the Original Toasted Corn Flakes remain as original as ever—light, and dainty, appetiz vor with a melting crispness on te kates ng A go!” They change thelr name, Some do hohe fEB EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, ZULY 81, 19 ‘Steward of Schooner a Victim Of Explosion, Now in Hospital te AMERICAN PRESS ARSOCIATION Many Unique Incidents Over a Vast Territory Marked Huge Explosion + Hundreds of Strange Stories of Freakish Devel- opments That Followed Disaster—Tense Moments for Many People. The manager of a Brooklyn all-night restaurant near Borough Hall, his front window shattered by the explosion, stood for half an hour, oblivious to ll else, painstakingly extracting splinters of glass from a watermelon, A typewriter, thrown by tho blast from the intretor of a west side office, wan found by Policeman Murphy of the Fourth Precinct Station upright, un- harmed and ready for business in the middie of the sidewalk, Willie Barty bag been an office boy for three weeks in the building of Walter Hyarris @ Co,, Dey and West Btreets, Saturday night he forgot to put down any of the windows. Every other window in the neighborhood was broken, Policeman Alexandor Kachler was twirfing his nightatick as the first explo- sion occurred. The shock tore the club out of his hand and blew his cap up on the ledge of a building. Just married, John Pavelski and Mary Wolinski were sittin; the head of the wedding supper table in Progress H: At the roar from the harbor waiters dropped plates of soup, tables were overtur: and the guocsts fied in panic. ‘The Pavelskias never budged. They knew beforehand, they said, that married life had to have its Jara Detective Tom Donahue, at Police Headquarters, waving @ revolver, ran all the way to Baxter and Walker Atreots in his pajamas, looking for the man who set off the bomb, There he found @ thief looting the broken window of a John D, Rockefeller got out of bed at Pocantico Hille and went around asking for information about the earthquake, Peter Raceta, skipper of a lighter that was in the midat of the blast, was micidded along the deck and into the water, He swam until he reached Bedloe's Island, nearly a mile away, and then waa go dased that he swam back again, ‘The explosion tore open the vest of M. T. Henley, yardmaster of the Le- high Valley Railroad, threw his watch from his pocket and shot it into space, the chain slipping through a buttonhole and following like the tall of a comet. Polleeman Henry Doherty of the Fifth Precinct, Jersey City, known nas “Handsome Harry,”. was at the foot of Claremont Avenue. When he pulled Himacif out of the water he found all his clothes torn off except a atrip of cloth hanging from his waistline like a breechclout. Aman in Harlem leaped from hed and shouted to his wife: “Get up; The Jamppost in front of the house has fallen down!" “Damn the shrapnel!" ald Pilot Alfred Smith of the fireboat New Yorker, Griving after a blaring bargo, Two minutes later a 1 shell, six inches long, ploroed the pilot house window and went through Smith’s license, A window in the office of Commismoner Howe on Ellis Island was blown bodily across the room; @ bullet made a hole In @ picture of Lincoln, and @ signed photograph of President Wilson was given a crack across the loft eye. A bar of tron eight feet long was thrown to Hedloe's Island and buried iteelf for half tte length in an asphalt roadway twenty feet from Mra A, T. Qufton, wife of the Aignal Corps Commandant, Covered with white dust, etghtean-ye Orchard Street, Brooklyn, stuck to his swite a fow munitions exploding over in Jersey, ma’‘am, that'a all, There goes another one,” old Samuel Markowlts of No, 35 ‘don Governor's Island, “Just he kept ¢elling inquirers, “You, Not a window waa broken in the ¢ Lane, occupied by the offices of the ‘Ive-story building at No, 68 Malden York Plate Glass Insurance Company. John Duess, a barge captain, ran past a car of dynamite as it exploded, All he remembers is somebody yelling, “Not that way, you fool!" Two fish were found dead tn the Aquarium, Orderty Albert Skinner, on Governor's Isiand, had just left hig past to go Within five minutes 600 pounds of plaster buried the stool he had —_——, Thousands on the east side camped near the Williamsburg Bridge and tn the parks, believing that warshipa were fighting off Sandy Hook to capture the submarine Bremen, iene Charlton Cuvier, @ bargeman at Work when the first explosion occurred, was huried jnto the aly, He landed in @ carload of borax, pe heats Hdward Hohaeffer, patrol driver of the Ocean Avenue Police Btatlon, re- ported that the shoe was ripped from hie left foos by the force of the blast, The statue of Africa, in front ef the Custom House, had her leg fractured. —— Vour hundred crates of eggs in a tent on the Lackawanna pier, were found wabroken, Jn the same tent a cat gave birth to two kittens, A man who fled In terror from his home om Bleecker Street came back to flad one of his carpet slippers. Ake a flook of bats, a swarm of heavy canvas sheep-lined overcoats de- scended on Mills Island, Nobody knows where they came from, ‘The entigrants | set them, All were pleased. i ‘IDEA, 11 MASSING [ELECTRIC SPARK AND 41 INJURED MAY HAVE CAUSED -—ARENOWKNOWN GREAT EXPLOSION All Missing, Including Women Expert Lays Black Tom Dis- and Children, Were Aboard aster to Ground Currents Barges Destroyed, From Railways. Vagrant ground curren (rifled raliweye tn the ‘Teoenty four hours after the explo from on the police of Jerery City inity are were quite wnoertata tre ing th ") | eugereted by 1 W. Bpang, electrical ecy of thelr stele A of the 4004 lexpert, No 188 Liberty Btreet, as a jend injured svle caune of yesterday morn The fvliowing birt, after the names of at * Toland fing to Mr, Bpang, electric sparks have been slighted when vex sols loading at the Mtandard Oi « pany's per on the Kil von Kull « in contact with the pier, and it I» claimed that off Yeasel at that pler wae actually ignited in that way, the epark chane~ heved to be correct bran. TOBBON, ARTHUR, two and one aif yeare old, No, 67 Central Avenue, jersey City; thrown eut of bed an@ killed by @hook, UNIDENTIFIED . Spang, who has spectalized in study of electrolysis for many yeers, says there have been several Mr. Haitroad of New the YDEN, ree abc vensel nt to plers Lehigh iv Brookiyn and at Constable Hook, | u Ll Hayonne, which apparently were CORMIN, M., Captain of barge No.| ouused by the grounding action of 24 of the Johnaon Lighterage Com-| jecirto railway currents. pany, WILBON, MAB FREDA, Charles Wilson of bar lorraine = Hince the electrification of the allways of Mud ountion in Now Jerse, Spang, “a © way currents ha rack rails in t et wife of No, & sportation Company, believed sunk near Kilts Island, WILSON -two small children Mra, Freda Wilson, been leaving the of we counties and has vwed by ol de wv crews of tho sunken munitions-car-| Kull, Newark May and New York barge May, URED IN SMRSKY CITY, “In 1004. three, alx, eight and even TY, JA tel twelve inch water ‘mains burst at Raunes a oman} yolnte adjacent to the Kill Von Kull a ace, lacerated | aid New York Bay in Bayonne after scalp and jnternal injuries; critical |they had been subjected to the de- City Hospital, structive grounding action of those SON, PETE, No. 158 wit, | fAliway cufrents for about nine years 2 ‘ » TAt the present tine electric railway Street, Brooklyn; abrasions) currents are flowing into Newark of the face and Jody, City Hospital, | Hay, both on the east and west sides STYFEE, HARRY, sixteen, son of | Mong the oll pipes of the Tuscarara o OW Company, a subsidiary arge No. 68, abrasions on of the a Standard Ol! Company.” rtain of Cit i A MATZDORF CHARLES, | sixty- Few people realize the destructive seven, watchman, of Secaucus, | effects of these ground currents, ac- wounds and bral City Hospital| cording to Mr. Spang. In 1906 he ALLEN, JORKY, thirty-eight, No.|‘ssued a printed circular predicting that, with the electrification of steam railways, electrolysis and fires would become far more fre- juent. This prediction has been substantiated, he says, by the de- struction of the New York and New Jersey Water Company's pipes in the Hackensack mi . where breaks recently _ interfered with Rayonne's water supply for five 21 River Street, Hoboken, lacerations of the entire body, City Hospital, WAL , JOHN, twenty-one, brakeman, No, 103 Mercer Street, contusions of face and head and fracture of nose. City Hospital, WALSH, THOMAS, thirty-five, Lehigh Valley conductor, No, 108 Mercer Brest City Hospital. NOLAN, GEORGE, thirty-three, No, 639 Jersey Avenue, contusions of head and face. Removed to home RACETA, PETER, thirty-one, days. In 1911 Mr. Spang called the at- tention of the Public Service Com man of the barge Moran No, mination here to the Battery Place, Manh: b caping currents of thi be nd left ear. City Hospital. jrolley railways of Man’ ULEY, MISS F! yi siz- Pech eons ganedon: r+] 4 hi jueat vy 4 10 * Sy Hospital s ” tubes under the East River Hudson River, besides impairing the high pressure water mains and the stee! canes of plunger elevators in Lower Manhattan skyscrapers. says the Commission, so far knows, has taken no action to in- sulate these vital danger points, GRACE, —-—, six months old, daughter of Mrs. Edith Grace, No #42 Communipaw Avenue, Injured by falling ceiling. City Hospital. GUTERALD, PAUL, twenty-one, No, 298 Johnson Avenue, scalp cut by falling brick. City Hospital. PIERCK, DANIEL, of the Bea- men's Institute, New York, lacera- tions of face, City Hospital. CROCKETT, WILLIAM, fifty-four engineer, No. 870 York Street, right arm injured. 8t. Francis Hospital HEINTZ, LOUIS, fireman, Engine 0, shock, German Hospital, EB THOMAS, fireman, En gine No. 16 shock. German Hospital. LARSON, THEODORE, twenty- eighi, No, 441 Rulders Avenue; cou- tuslons of right eye. TASCHNEK, JOHN C., twenty-one, musician, No, 171 Fourth Street; shock, NELSON, PETER, No, 182 Grand No, Btreet; lucerated face. SKUSKAR, MATHEW, 199 Warren Street; laceration of face, HYULCSYZ, FRED, No, 64 Mercer Street; Incerations of face, HENDERSON, LOUIS, twenty-five, No, 222 Communipaw Avenue; n= ations of head and face, CHANCHRY, C,, No 178 Grand Street, foot InJured, DAYORO, JOHN, 80, No, 450 John Street, New York, BARTON, JO Summit Avenue GALDILL, J Center Street, brui BRENNAN, JOHN, fireman, Bn- gine Company 4, bruised, SCHAM, GORGE, fireman, Truck No. INHOLD, AUGUST, patrolman, shock, KACHLER, ALEXANDER, patrol- man, shi HAMILL, JAMES, patrolman, shock. BCHARFFER, BDWARD, ” driver auto patrol, shock, STEINBERGER, HARRY, contu- gona, INJURED IN MANMATTAN, DOMINICK, NNIB, No, 68 Weat Third Street, cut by falling glass; . Vinconta Hogpitaly BANTERINI, ROSIB, No, 42 K Street, injured by falllng ceiling bedroom, SANTHRINI, GABLBANA, same as abov BURNS, JERSH, No, 197 Grand Btreet, slipped on glass tn front of No, 168 Rowers Temoved to St, ital with lacerations BS, ROHNERT, rten, Dubstan’a Hosp of lea, u Want one Buntres und Btreet, cut by falling have prepared for reduced prices of 50c., 75c. Closing Price ing will go into effect Hy $9.75, $12.50, (Department on HENRI No, 294 Thirty-fourt Jase in Hudson ‘Terminal Building; Hudson Street Hospital, DIAZ, FRANK, steward, No. 85 fouth Btrect, cul by failing glass While in Richmond Lunch on Fulton Btreet; treated by Volunteer Has- pital “physicians and removed + ome, ‘SEIFFERT, WILLIAM, waiter, No. 440 West Thirty-first Btrect, same as abo: SWANN, WALTER, dishwasher, No, 2026 Madison Avenue, same as above. skull DRESSES SUITS ' ‘ eS ° Platteburs ’ ’ PLATTSBURG, Dougherty of Croton: » July 81.—W, J, Lake, N. ¥,, a tholic Summer Sch sl @ hospital here with a resul rbile, thi be. e iJ His condi,ion Is serious, Com tor erage eonle Praise Beet, 32. New rday, neste 1 Ber Dound.—AdvK, Little Children’s Washable Dresses and Suits will be offered to-morrow at clearance prices, am |BAN ON EXPLOSIVES IN JERSEY CHTY 1S PUNEDT Fagan Starts to Pind What Ammunition Is Stored in | Railroad Yards, } — The danger of other explosives @ the lives of the people of | Jersey Coty te being inquired inte tor jay by May Merk Vegan, Acting mena cutor Hudapeth hb for ition am rday's disaster, ‘The Mayor has alse had subpeemas fenued for the bills of lading belemg- ing to the various ammunition ¢om- whose products are shipped by ft the freight depot at Black He will find out how | way o the law, well as how much of it | eClll is kept awaiting transfer to ships in the railroad yards. | The Mayor and the five Commis. sionera who constitute tJ 1th agrees. j ment of Jersey City, with Col je “imen James Hammil, Edward) Gray and Joon J, Egan, went down the Bay tin the forenoon in a tum and mado jan Inspection of the acene of the dir. jaster, Following & conference, they | will report to the Special Grand Jury the danger condijons still existing near Black ‘Tom Island, — Mayor r n invited Mayor Mitohel and « bers of the Grand Juries of New. Kings County and all other within twenty-five miles of tho sion to attend the conference, a explosion and leading up to it," itutes the jark, If tt Is true that 180 cars containing dynamite, shrapnel and other deadly shells are stored in the railroad yards at our doors we must find some way to send the stuff back to Delaware or wherever it from. If we cannot do thi as well cease to exist Starvation, PASCAGOULA, Mise., July 31.—With her eight-monthe-old baby crawling over her body calling for “mamma,” Emma Coazley, once wealthy, was in her, home tony, dead of a Mra. Coaxley was in the two children. ‘They were not knowm to o in want until one of the children, age aix, went to a neighbor's home, was hungry. This led to the moti Mare. This, he believ is @ matter the Real Estate Board of whore should take up, with a to in. vestigating the City De; ent of Electricity and the Electrical ‘es: gineering Department. B. Altman & Co. to-morrow (Tuesday) An Important Clearance Sale of Women’s and Misses’ Brassieres comprising a number of desirable styles in broken sizes, variously marked at the greatly & $1.25 (Corset Department, Second Fioor) Reductions in Women’s Summer Coats & Wraps (sizes Incomplete) to-morrow, affording excellent purchasing opportunities at $19.50 & $29.00 the Third Floor) » 65c., $1.00 & 1.35 » 1.50. Sizes ranging generally from 2 to 5 years (Infants’ Wear Department, Second Floor) Fifth Aven, New York