The evening world. Newspaper, October 5, 1918, Page 2

: : | | os ing need be no fear of an explosion.” ‘ fendered homeless, Thousands ha The Gillespie plant covers about 15,000 acres. It cost over $4,000,- SCENE OF THE sbelt actually ploughs iis way through the roof of the magazine there THE EVENIN G WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1918. XPLOSION IS COMPARED TO BATTLE ZONE ~ Several thousand families in Morgan and South Amboy have been ve had no food since last night. 000. Nearly 9,000 men and women were employed, It was reported this afternoon that fragments of bodies had been 4 Central, 1,000 feet from the Gillespie ~, found on the tracks of the Jersey « When the explosions started about 7.40 last night about 2,000 men ? were at work, and 1,000 men were in the recreation rooms about the grounds, The blasts were continuous from that time on, including the hour of going to press. “7 © badly wrecked. All residents havi _» Waving Perth Amboy, five miles away. Those who remain are camp ig in the streets and all places of The town of Morgan has been devastated and South Amboy is é left the latter place and many are business have been closed. « | Explosions heard during the afternoon, it was stated by company representatives, were box cars loaded with shells to be shipped away 4 The shells were 75 and 155 millimeter sizes. 4 sent their workers away at noon be- ¢ * from the plant. * | Many small munitions plants » @ause they were told that a terrific explosion was expected late in the Afternoon. Representatives of the company discounted these reports, but the workers were sent home nevertieless. The explosion which wrecked girl was killed and several persons In towns ten and twenty miles@——— \ away from Morgan the injured are being removed to points further away on account of the increasing inten- * sity of the explosions. A Magazine blew up at 12:06 @’clock and the detonation broke win- © dows in Brooklyn and New York. An Evening World reporter at South Amboy pays a great pillar of ainoke with a column of fame tn ita centre shot up into the alr for about 1,000 feet, then spread out fantike, streak- ‘ed with flame, About four seconds later the second of the explosions reached Perth Amboy. RED CROSS PROVIDES FIRST AID IN STRICKEN TOWN. The first aid to reach the stricken Sown was headed by J. W. Faust, As- sistant Direclor of the Atlantic Dt swaion of the Red Cross, Steps were rushed to provide food, clothing and spheiter for the refugees. “Simultaneously with one of the concussions that rocked the country- ‘ide shortly before noon, the steeple of the Second Presbyterian Church “Rahway, N. J, began to sway . Sieay pear to toppling into the * gtreet. A quantity of bricks were Joosened and fel) to the strect In a shower. Persons Hving opposite and on both sides of the church are in constant fear that the steeple will fall and South Amboy to await identification. | Women's Motor Corps. yhave left their homes for places of safety. The police established a “anger zone around the edifice, allow- few po one wo pass that way. Work of removing the steeple will berih at once, according to the polies. The slightest concussion or high wind is apt to blow it down, they said. The explosion which occurred _ shortly after noon was by far the worst felt in the lower part of the Persons on the upper Woolworth, Singer, Equitable and other skyscrapers in the downtown section reported that this blast actually caused the build- Ings to rock. The windows In the upper floors ac- tually rattled with the vibration, He-e d there in the »wamp filled sections A}ong the Kast River front windows ere reported shaken loose by the ex- oie and one pane of giass clat- Ing to the street at Fulton and iam Streets smashed within a few of the throng hurrying north on ‘idem Strect. ‘At the Stock Exchange brokers and ployees, just winding up the day's business, stopped, startled, as the * 12.06 explosion rocked the building, 5 t ities | DOCTORS, BEDDING AND FOOD | piant and from thelr homes én Mor- RYSHED TO STRICKEN ZONE, Doctors, nurses, mattresses, Perth Amboy all morning. , In Metuchen, ten miles from Mor- “gan, every large plate glass window Shas been broken and many windows in residences have been shattered. The walls in many homes have been , cracked and rooms filled with plaster, The population of Morgan, South Amboy and Perth Amboy is approx- imately 62,000 persons, the majority of whom are in need of outside help. ‘William Fellowes Morgan, President of the Merchants’ Association, wired at noon to the Mayors of South Am- boy and Perth Amboy the sympathy Branch has been converted into a the Gillespie plant is the fourth in six or seven weeks. The last occurred a week ago yesterday when a were injured. mediate advice as to how it could best ald the stricken communities. ‘The entire machinery of the Atlan.’ tie Division of the Red Cross has been applied to the ald of the injured and other sufferers in the devastated towns. Four of the Coast Guard reported killed in the plant turned up at Perth Amboy at noon, They were H. T, Jeffries, C. W. Pachalk and H. Chartier, ordinary seamen, and FP. Voight, carpenter's mate, The guardsmén were in the store- house of Unit No. 1 when the maga- | zine, 150 feet from them blew up, The blast wrecked the building they were in and set fire to it. The roof fell in and bemmed them tn in one corner. Through the fire and smoke they made ‘their way to a window, smashed it and crawled out. Then they went over to other buildings and drove the people out of them. A guard has been established two | miles from the plant and no one is Permitted to pass the lines, One main building and two units of thirteen original units are ail that standing of the great muni- Mona plant, one of the officials re+ ported after inspection. The fifteen bodies recovered were | see. Aaete BHPPIODD RGD E52 FVSDS ©. 0OOO-2OOO LOCATION OF MORGAN AND DISTANCE POVGE DEVOTED Ds FHOOOGEOL1OFD1000F 008 044 FODODYH* The heroism of women physicians, nurses, ambulance drivers and other women workers, is credited with having saved many lives, Under bursting shells, virtually under battle field conditions, these women worked calmly, speedily, efficiently, Public officials of the damaged towns exxp! ed unbound- ed admiration especially for courage and coolness of Major Helen |Temoved to Garretson's Morgue at / Ono is believed to be that of John Miller of Newark, a laborer at the plant. Fight injured were taken to the hospital at Keysport, Mayor A. T. Curr of South Amboy highly commended the work of Major | Helen Bastedo and her Women's Motor Corps in administering first ald to the injured and removing them ty the nearest hospitals, These women war workers came to South Amboy early in the morning. The Girls’ Service Club at Long |temporary hospital, As soon as she heard the explosion Miss Margaret Christie of the War Camp Community Service mafle immediate arrange- ments for (he accommodation of at jens fifty injured men. Virtually every store and shop in Perth Amboy and Long Branch sent their motor truck and dejivery autos to aid in the removal of ‘the injured All the military ambulances at Camp Vail were algo pressed into service, Hundreds of heroism wore performed, The sur+ rounding country resembled a battle- field in France. Shells were falling and bursting in all directions and people, terror stricken, fled from the individual acts | Pastedo and other members of the ‘Through the greater part of the night these women drove their cara and ambulances through the district around Morgan, skilfully circling the obstacles that piled up in the dark- ness, going. wherever they were needed and giving no heed to danger. Girls whose nearest approach to war befure had been in conveying officers about Manhattan suddenly found themselves under fire, and showed no sign of excitement, Major Bastedo, after the first rush HEROISM OF WOMEN WORKERS CREDITED WITH SAVING MANY hours of first ald work, established headquarters at Perth Amboy at the Packer House and organized the later stages of the rescue work from there. Miss Lucy M. Ryder, superin- tendent of the New York Infrimary, No. 821 East 15th Street, organized a corps of nurses who left at 12.30 this afternoon for Sewaren, the nearest point to which relief units could be taken. Miss Ryder was alded by Miss Cicely Campbell and Mrs, Hén- rietta M. Day. A second relief ex- Pedition similar to Miss Ryder’s was orgaized to follow. Refugees reaching Perth Amboy were loud in their praises of those who had extended aid to them, From neighboring towns they were pro- vided with food and supplies and on all hands money was offered them. They declared that they could not speak too highly of the work done by the girls of the Motor Corps of Amer- lea, who were the first to be among them last night. their calling. Women were on the roads pushing perambulators, carry- ing household effects, driving pigs and goats and horses before them, for all the world like tho refugees leaving @ beleaguered city in France. BURSTING SHELLS BRING TER- ROR TO FLEEING CROWDS, And, to make the picture more vivid and realistic, bursting shells increased the terror of the fleeing people. The first of the rescuing parties to reach the scene last night was @ detachment of Coast Guarda, seventy- five in number, in command of Master's Mate K, 8, McCann, Then gan and South Amboy, . Automobiles with doctors, ambu- “ding and food were being rushed to lances with nurses and Moter Corps girls were hurrying to the scene through the rain of bursting shells as , ‘unmindful of danger as our owa boys overseas battling with the enemy. from the flaming piles of buildings. shells cut the hose and before possible to check them. Coast Guards, saidiers, firemen and policemen battled with the flames and carried out the dead and tnjured was thought that the fire was under control, and it probably was, when the Biggest explosion of all occurred at 2.45 o'clock this morning. Bursting could be replaced the flames had gained such headway that it was im- | , of the association and asked for im- ts * Warning was then given to overy- Dody to leave the plant, This was done without further pleading. ‘Then it was remembered that the injarot had been carried to the company hos- pital within the grounds. Immediato- ly there was a rush for the hospital by gallant guardsmen, soldiers, doc- tors and the intrepid motor corps women driving their ambulances, Through the field of torn-up ground over which they drove leggy and arms and torsos of the ex- Plosion’s victims were passed, for which no stop could be made. But every one of the injured was success. fully carried out, Along the roads to Perth Amboy, to Elizabeth, Newark and to Staten Island the wounded were rushed, made as comfortable as possible in followed 100 more from Sandy Hook under Lieut. F. K; Burkett: A frag- ment of shell went through the roof of the latter's limousine as he drove along. Another detachment under Lieut. J. B. Sticker went from New York, and then regulars began arriving from the nearby forts and camps, The soldiers and guardsmen worked like heroes, plunging into burning bulld- Inge, unmindful of the explosions, and dragged out the dead and injured, ‘The force of the fitst explosion rocked the plant of the Tottenville Copper Company on Staten Island and threw the night. crew into a panic, From various floors and buildings the workers began to rush to the exita, “It's here, it's here!” was the cry rained by an excited worker, and it | spread so quickly that the men and women rushed in pante to the strecta, ‘The officials of the plant were able to reassure them, but few went back to work for the night. When the first blasts were heard in | Sheepshead. Bay and Coney Island at 2 oclock this morning many of the frightened residents left their warm beds and fled to their cellars, fearing a German bombardment was in progress, Along the Brooklyn water front the excitement was intense, Many long- shoremen believed a naval battle was going on just beyond tho horizon, Brooklyn Police Headquarters were deluged with frantic inquirera, Six it it eight hours at short intervals. ‘The scene of the explosion and ad- jacent territory resembles « French town evacuated by the Germans. Great gaps in the earth, ruins of buildings ang mounds of debris are reminders of the big plant. Relatives of the cmployees made frantle efforts to rush by the guards to reach their kin inside the lines while shells were bursting along the roads, A hell blew the head off one man talking to a guard. The guard threw she had been unable to learn any- thing of him, He was connected with the West Shore Railroad for thirty years and took the superintendency six weeks ago. NEARBY TOWNS SEND PHYSI- CIANS, NURSES, AMBULANCES. Surrounding towns did all they could to relieve the suffering and aid the refugees. Hospitals in Perth Amboy, Newark, Elizabeth, Rahway, Freehold, New Brunswick and other towns, sent ambulances, doctors and nurses. A first aid station was es- tablished at a safe distance from the fires. himself flat on and escaped injury, The flashea of the explosions could be seen for miles, The terror of fice- ime men, women and children was in- tensified by the red sky and great clouds of smoke bebind them. Telephone and telegraph wires were ripped up and communication with the plant was shut off early in the night. A girl telephone operator atuck to her post, half a mile away from the fire, With shells bursting about her, windows being broken and her office shaking, she called up am- bulances, physicians, soldiers and fireman, besides sending warnings to other buildings, Among the heroes of the disaster is an unidentified ratlroad fireman who gave his life to save others. ‘When the first explosion occurred, at 45, a trainioad of explosives was standing on @ aiding of the plant yards, Realizing what would happen If an exploding shel! or fames reached the train, he backed In a locomotive and coupled to the cars, He was the ground desk men answered phone calls for the ambulances. Hundreds of people rr men, Potts and children—were 4d ing from the danger sone, of six consecutive hours, Poworful sholl were buried through ‘ho air, oxplod'ng miles away from the \fn Burope, The barrage cont killed by @ shell fragment. Joseph H. Mandeville, superinten lost hie REAPER OO ZONES PRIS PLE LG-DSSGDSS-» PORE LSS N EXPLOSION NAY REACH TOTAL oF $20,000.00 Plant Valued at $12,000,000 and Munitions Are Estimated | at $8,000,000. Money loss in the Gillesple plant Oke) plosion, which may reach $20,000,000, will fall largely upon the Government it has been announced. .'Phe plant was owned by the Govern- ment and was operated by the Gillespie Company as Government contractors. It consisted of thirteen unjts, of which seven had been entirely com-! pleted and were in operation, railroad tracks, machinery and valuable equip-| ment. 7 The value of the plant destroyed has been set at $12,009,000 by officials of the Gillespie Company, In addition to this is the value of munitions, elther awaiting shipment or in course of manufacture. This is said to have represented close to $8,000,000, Enormous shipments to France last month largely decreased the amount of stock on hand; otherwise the loss would have been much heavier, EXPLOSION SCENE “UKE BATTLE ZINE, SAYS EYEWINES (Continued from First Page.) ing country. South Amboy might be called a wreck, The houses were fat as far as M ‘uchen. Mattawan had jfelt the blast severely. Even New Brunswick was shaking. “The people were in terror. They dropped everything and ran, [ don't belleve I ever saw @ scene of such |utter desolation, Refugees crowded ‘into Perth Amboy and then moved | further on with hundreds from that town, who were becoming panic- stricken, They are now on the road somewhere between Amboy and Rah- way.” “Keyport joined with the rest. seemed everybody was leaving there. “Physicians had been sent from ali of the towns around Morgan, along with all the ambulances that could be’ spared. They carried not only those injured at the plant, but the scores of sick and feeble who had collapsed along the roadside after they left their homes. “All kinds of rumors were afloat. The men and women we picked up sald they thought an Austrian spy was to blame, I was talking to an employee of the Gillespie Company and he insisted a German U boat had come up in Rarttan Bay, threw three shells into Plant No. 61, and theo the big explosion followed. A mo- ment later another employes, who had heard him make the statement, de- nied it, “The people are fleeing because they understand there are tons more of mighty explosives that have not} been touched yet, and they fear if qt that goos up the surrounding country Tt is desolate will be laid in waste, now, her word, but at an early hour to-day Although work of fighting the Names was made dangerous by the wide flung shells and the sanger that at any moment another bullding might be ffung apart, firemen stuck to the Among those missing to-day was Arthur H. Stanton of Perth Amboy, | superintendent of the unit in which the first explosion occurred. ‘A man from Lynbrook, Long Island, telephoned the police to rush a rei- | ment of militia there at once because the Germans were shelling the town | and he believed they would soon be) landing troops The rcckiyn office of The Evening | World rocked like a cradle during the more severe explosions Windows were shattered in the irwegian Hospital in the Bay Ridge section. Little damage was done by broken glass at the Harbor Hospital in South Brooklyn, because they have been prepared for such a catastrophe ever since the Black Tom explosion in 1916, STRICKEN Trains, Ferries and Street Cars Packed—Many Walk on * Jersey Highways. Refugees began arriving In New| York this afternoon from points in) New Jersey and adjacent hamlets and] towns which have either been de-| stroyed or endangered by the Gilles} pie explosion, Hundreds were arriv- ing by train at Sersey City, while many came by ferry from Staten| Island, They reported that Totten- ville, Staten Island, had been ordered evacuated by the military authorities and that practically every window in) Perth Amboy had been destroyed and many of the houses seriously shaken. In South Amboy, a few miles from the Gillespie plant, refugees reported 9 large number of foreign munition workers had been isolated in the town’ by the impossibility of their removal by train, anid a number of Red Cross) autos had been despatched to bring them out, In the surrounding territory many" houses have been destroyed by shells. Refugees arriving in New York ani adjacent towns carried what few ar- ticles they could sve, and reported that the death I4r would be mich heavier than early reports indicated. | The sntire section Involved is vir- | tually under martial law and the/ military authorities have taken com- | plete charge. On the Lincoln Highway and other | roads to Newark, Elizabeth and Rahway, there was all day a stream of automobiles, motor trucks and horse-drawn vehicles conveying refu- goes and some of their possessions to points of safety. Some of the people | propelled their most precious goods along on handcarts and several boys were seen driving dogs attached to small carts. P People along the way took into their homes those who asked shelter, | but most of the refugees pushed on toward the cities, Coffee and sand- wiches were given to the fleeing fa- milles without charge at farmhouses | and the home in small settlements. The driver of one motor truck carry- ing twenty-four persons said he did not know where be was going. “We only want to get out of here, that’s all I know or care," he said. Thousands of refugees poured into, Perth Amboy while one SPIN Y after another filled them with terror. Carrying babies, cats, dogs, par- rots and canary birds in cages, they | arrived in autos, trucks, wagons and | Lucy M. Ryder of the New York In- | baby, all of whom started out in one FAMILIES FLEE préssed into service. The exodus started ghortly before midnight, At Perth Amboy the refugees found a large part of the population ready to flee from the town, because of | warnings that far worse explosions migh’ be expected, Schools, churches, the ¥. M. C. A. and even parks in Perth Amboy were filled with refugees for whom there Was no room left in the homes of Perth Amboy that were thrown open to them. | The Jersey Central Railroad ran specials in and out of Perth Amboy as fast as they could be taken | through. The ferry to Tottenvilie, abandoned Ita schedule and carried | the refugees away as rapidly as the | boats could make their trips back and forth. | Some of the refugees were in negli- |gee, covered with raincoats and | blankets, Others managed to carry | away enough clothing and household valuables to make them envied among the sufferers, | Relief Headquarters for the Red! Cross were established in the Board | of ‘Trade Building in Perth Amboy, | under direction of Alexander Wilson. | John 8. Ellsworth is in charge of the canteen service, As soon as the serious nature of the accident was learned by Supt firmary for Women and Children, she organized a relief corps which left at noon for Sewaren, N. J., which is about eight miles from the Gillespie plant. Miss Cicely Campbell and Mrs. Henrietta M, Day accompanied Miss Ryder. A seodnd relief corps started at 2 o'clock. The Perth Amboy high school was given over to influenza sufferers and field, N. J., i# attending the sick, in the parks and other open spaces bewildered women and children camped on the grass. Some of them were lucky enough to be able to carry away bed clothing and those who have them spread blankets and quilts on the grass, Others are lying on the bare ground, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church has supplied coffee to hundreds of the homeless and the Salvation Army and Y. M,. C, have undertaken emergency relief work, Many of those in the streets were children, wandering almlessly about waiting to be joined by their parents, from whom they were separated in the flight. Mary Grynkiewicz, old, fourteen years and her brother, twelve, were| searching for their parents, two) brothers, o sister, her husband and party from South Amboy. Theresa Waiter, ten years old, with every kind of vehicle that could be| BABY KILLED; TWIN MAY DIE; INCIDENTS OF GREAT CRASH Brooklyn Mother and Children Two Days Old in Shattered House — Various Wer little brother was seaching for other members of their family, Scout Patrol erulser was the victim REFUGEES REACH NEW YORK; LAST ANDRE MARTIAL LAW IN| FORCE AS. DUE TO ACCIDENT, SAYS GILLESPIE — Company President Absolves Employees of Plant Prom T. A, Gillespie. President of the T. A. Gillespie Shell Loading Company wrecked by the explosion, to-day made the following statement: “The explosion and fire which ‘fol lowed was purely an accident. It wa not due to carelessness on the part o any one and there is no suspicion of German work. There is no ground fo the fear expressed over a large quan tity of TNT. It is safely buried unde @ big hill far out of the danger zone.” Mr, Gillespie was at the New Packer House at Perth Amboy, looking afto the injured who W»re taken there, Ho added that the plant was turning ou 82,000 shells of all calibre each day and asserted that of the seventy per sons employed in the unit where tha fire started only twenty have so fa been accounted for, All the officers of the stricken cor- po 1 arrived at the scene of the disaster soon after the first explosion, according to P. G. Holdsworth, Vico President of the Gillespie Company, contracting engineers, with officers in the Hudson Terminal Building, In the immediate territory of the Gillespie plant are the California Loading Company, the Oliver plant, 4 plant of the Du Pont Company and several smaller United States Gov- ernment plants. Hope for the units which housed the nine-inch shells ws given up at 11 o'clock this morn- ins, following the two explosions at 1 0 and 10:25, when the three and ix inch units were enveloped in the wake of destruction, Seventy-five survivors of the explo- ston who live in Greater New York arrived at the New York office of the Gillespie Company, No, 60 Churci other sick people driven from their| Street, shortly before noon to-day houses, A volunteer nursing corps| There olficers of the company under Miss Bleanor DeGraff of Plain- | out food and silver pieces to ena men to get to their homes. All the belongings had been lost inthe panic which followed tie firs¢ crash. They were all nervous and moved about as if in fear. They were for the most part men of foreign extrac: tion, Among them was a former ef ployee of The World's composing room force, 4 “We were playing pinochlg in the recreation‘room,” he said, “and off in the wance hall some of the men and women were dancing when suddenly every Hight in the byllding went oui. There was a briei lull, and then an explosion which rocked the very earth beneath us, We saw Unit No. 611 fairly rock, and then for an hour.camo crash after crash, “The people rushed around in pa They were diving mto cailara hiding behind corners, rushing here and there in the darkness like the bedlam of lunatics, Then there was quiet— no explosions for another hour—when the hell opened up again like the ar- tillery preparation of the whale Al- led army “ak a4 U. S. SCOUT PATROL SUNK ” BY INTERNAL EXPLOSION AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 14 News has been received that the U. 379 has been “fost nerr this port, The vessel sank head feo! from some cause as yet unknown. Rea- jcue vessels have been sent to the scene, Later tt was learned that the patrol vf an: Mrternal Mrs, Margaret Sturz, of No. 643 Kos-) to kioxka Street, Brooklyn, was visiting her mother at South Amboy when one Explosion Sidelights. several fire companies out. be automatically turned in, calling Bulldings | of the early morning explosions shat- tered the house {n which she was sleep- ing with her twins only two days old. Sho was found uneonacious, but was revived and brought to her home in Brooklyn, where she 1s in a serious con- dition, more from shock than from tn- juries, One of the twins was dead when found, and the other alive, but believed to be mortally hurt. Miss Laura J. Bonn, wearing a house dress, with a raincoat over it, a boudoir cap and slippers, stuck to her home in South Amboy until the plaster fell. She is seventy-five years old and the savings of her life- time are invested in her house. When the explosions shook the plaster loose and the windows crashed in she fled, With her is George W. Johnson, a boarder in her house, who helped the aged woman to Perth Amboy, William BE. Martin jr. of No, 1173 Went 11th Street, in the Kings High- way section of Brooklyn, was awak- ened at 3 A. M. by one of the most violent explosions, Descending to the first floor, he found his house rocking like a boat, despite its hollow tile ction. “A vase three feet high stood on the mantel of the living room,” he said to-day, “As I stood beside it it tilted, and I caught it just in time to) prevent it erashing to the floor, There was great excitement in all the Kings Highway section, and the explosions sounded as if the city were being bombarded.” The ea losion at 12.20 this afternoon blew tho plate glass window out of the front of the plant of the Dale- Brewster Machinery Company at No. 54-60 Lafayette Street, opposite the Tombs Prison, Nobody was hurt. ) : ‘The two explosions at 10.10 and bo Gand Sis —ererning*roeked* Brenkion” tre ette Avenues Hugh O'Neill, a boy of No, 144% Koselusko Street, was knocked from his bicycle by the explosions and fell in the path of an automobile driven by John Kruger of No, 236 Nichols Avenue, Brooklyn. The car ran over him, breaking several of his riba, Mr, Kruger took the boy home in his car. | many calle from persons who wanted to know the cause of the explosions thut in the early hours of the morning their | telephone system was practically use- | ea, The police of Brooklyn received no |TitY was sunk oles here to-day explosion. One boat load of men érom the sunken vessel has been regoued, but whether the rest have besn savedts hot were badly shaken and hundreds of |¥¢t known. ne windows broken in South Brooklyn, The patro) carried’ a cofiplément of At the cornersot Nostrand and Lafay- |fifty-Give, officerg and may. a NEW U. S, STEAMER’ SUNK’ IN CRASH WITH TANKER The new American stanmship “Lake in collision with oll tanker James MeGee the ff Key Wer, |Thuréday night, aceonting to authenr information received jn .narit'me cir- ‘The majority of Despite the succession of explosions damage by previous munition explo- sions in New Jersey, such as the Black Tom disaster, is that underlying New Jersey, the Inland of Manhattan and Long Island is a great ledge which when shaken in Jergey rocked all thar, it supported, | Fifty windows on the Broadway sie of the Produce Exchange Building were smashed by the explosions. Tho police report @ great amount of glass broken on Staten Island. At 10.18 o'clock thie morning, when the lower end of Manhattan was shaken, the five large front doors of the City Hall opened with a crash and much excitement was caused in the building. The rotunda was thre onier by officials, and Kennel, Mayor Hylan's bodyguard, rushed out of the Mayor's chambers thin Wicd the explosion occurred in ‘Mone management of the Wool nag wo) pullding at investigation this or rep! that this structure bed int areags trom the wed in short Jout. \illiam orew, it was said, went down with 1 venuel, The Lake City was a vessel of 3.590 the property damage in the lower end gross tons, Tho ‘James Stecent of Manhattan has been comparatively *"y, of the Standard Ol! Company, be a | small. ‘This ts in a sense due to the prime wa in Tpty ete seaT Nm | geographical location of South Amboy gmking were not available Sf te with reference to New Yorks Tho broad expanse of the bay, with hilly) = Staten Island acting as a buffer.) dieD, served awa protection to the elty. GILL.—At Waynenvitie. Xo an the cause of the heavy property! w. of the National Army Veterls Corps, Due notice of the funeral wil! be given GOTTLIEB.—At Ridwe‘ield Park No 3. Oct, 4. $9TR WILLIAM G. belowed husband of Marie Gottiieo (nea fucker ame OT vearn, Funeral services at his tate residence 36 Ellen ot. Ridgefield Park. N. J. Monday. Oct. 7 ar 2.90 P, of JAFYREE.—MADELEINE JARRE, Services at CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway, 66th ot, Sunday, oP. M, JONNSON.—1DA JOHNBON, Services at CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway, 66th wt, Sunday, 12 noon, WHITTIER.-MARY WHITTIER, Services at CAMPRELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway, 66th at, Sunday, ap. M. —_____—_—___ TEND pees é