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Show -r -r -H- '' '4"-!-' -r " . '- ii r THE DEAD i ,, M " - BURNETTE. Robert, New York, Coptnln of the Tug John Two- -r- hey, blown fiojn his wheel house. , MORO, Giantonomo, dock-hand, killed on the barkentlric -lugrid. 4- MORO, Michael. V -t- M'NEIL; Charles, cnclneor of a yard engine, blown from his cab. -f BARBOUR. Robert, Incoming Jersey Central passenger, killed - by falling glass. . . . 4- ARMSTRONG, James. Captain of the Whistler. ', UNIDENTIFIED MAN, one of his crew. ' '-. f The known missing: . , - "" Travare, Edward, master of the steam lighter Katherine. ' Hclnaeman, Volser, engineer oC tho Kathcrine W. rN , Ackloy, Frank, crew. t fy -f- Ackley, Henry, crew. ... lJfaL-' .r' "" 4- Stolpc, Oscar, crew s j . ' SK ' London, James, crew, ' ' 'v$&lkit4& ' j "" Belgian, Louis, crew. . -(irt Thought to be missing: Vi ff "M t4rv,r'ec' Twenty unidentified laborers. jft' v,. - -r -rf-- -- -r - -r t NEW YORK, Feb. 1. A charge of dynamite in transit from a freight car to the hold of. a lighter moored at pier No. 7, Communlpaw, N. J., let go at one minute past noon today, 160 yards south of the Jersey City terminal of the Central Railroad or New Jersey and in the widespread ruin that followed, seven men arc known to have been killed, seven more are missing, hundreds were wounded and varying reports leave from 16 to 20 more unaccounted for. Thirty Reported Killed. Thirty seems to be a conservative estimate of the dead and property damagos will hardlj' fall below ?750,-000. ?750,-000. Tho cause of the explosion is variously vari-ously attributed to the dropping of a cnBc of dynamite and to a boiler; explosion on n boat. The cause probably pro-bably will never be known. The Jersey Central terminal was wrecked; three ferry boats in the slips were damaged; lower Manhattan across the river was shaken from street level to the top of the Singer Tower; severe damage was done in Brooklyn and Staten Island, and to the Immigration detention station on Ellis Island, the shock was felt at MItyville, L. I., 35 miles distant, and at Long Branch, N. J., 45 miles away. The damage is so widely scattered that it 1b impossible to more than estimate es-timate 1L but In Manhattan alone, it is placed at 100,000; on Ellis Island, from 510,000 to $25,000. Vecsel Vanished Vith Crew. The lighter receiving the dynamite tho Katherine. W , owned by James Healing' of Jersey City vanished utterly ut-terly with her crew of feeven mon, Including the master, Edward Travore, Alongside was the lighter Whistler, which was so badly shattered that she sank with her crew of two, while the Swedish barkentine, Ingrid, was stripped of her rigging and two deckhands deck-hands aboard were killed. Fragments Frag-ments of one man's head were found swinging high on a piece of rope. The 'Katherine W, was tied to the outer ond of the plor, and a crew of dock-liands dock-liands was unloading a consignment of fifty pound boxes from two freight cars to the lighter when the crash came. Ono report was that the explosive ex-plosive was consigned to contractors up the river for blasting along tho Palisades, another that it was bound for Havana, Only the Whistler's flagstaff has been found. The freight car went up in a puff of dust. On the rear deck of the Barkentine Ingrid were found a pair of Iron trucks. They may bo the trucks of the dynamite car or of one of the other four cars standing near, which also were torn to bits. Fifty yards hack stood another car of dynamite. The explosion ripped the roof off and broke in the doors, but the dynamite itself did not explode. ex-plode. ' On board tho Ingrid, the steel miz-zen miz-zen mast snapped off above the lower yard, and the tangled wrockage came tumbling about the decks. Everything aloft was Weveled flat, but tho steel plates of the hull held. Strange Freaks of the Explosion. For one hundred feet the plor end was demolished Tho planking seemed seem-ed to have been ground lo powder. Over the broken edges twisted the steel rails of tracks. A steel gondola cir on the southorn most track looked like an old hat used for football. All about were strange freaks of the explosion. ex-plosion. One freight car had the roof blown Inward as if it had been crushed by a falling boulder, but the sides wore undnmaged. The iron sheatlng of tho freight house on Pier No. G, to the north was pushed inward in-ward on the side nearest the explosion ex-plosion and outward on the farther side. Engineer Blown From Cab. An engineer in a shunting locomotive locomo-tive was blown from his cab and died t)f a fractured skull. A tug boat captain cap-tain was hurled from his whoel nouse and fished out of the water 15 minutes minu-tes later. Inside the passenger station, damage dam-age was visible everywhere. Tho floors were littered with broken glass. Windows fronting on the inner court, had been sucked from the frames, sashes and. all. Slates were torn from tho roof. ,The hands of the ferry house clock were torn off. The southern wall bulged like a pasteboard paste-board box left out in tho rain. There were no sashes in 'most of the windows, win-dows, and no glass in those that had sashes. Make Skyscrapers Rock. Two ferry boats of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Somer-ville Somer-ville and the Plalnfield, lay In the terminal slips, and a third, the Lake-wood, Lake-wood, was just edging Into the river All of them careened violently and were showered with their own glass. Many of the wounded passengers came to New York for treatment In New York the terror was intensified by uncertainty. For half an hour nobody no-body knew what had happened or where. Those in tho rocking skyscrapers sky-scrapers thought the lower floors had been torn from under them. Those in the street thought the massive towers above them had been toppled down Literally, acres of glass were broken. Eighteen ' windows were smashed in the Standard Oil company building In Trinity Church, a valuable valu-able stained glass window was strewn In tho aisles New York business men who stood nl their office windows looking out over the north river saw a puff of yollow dust shoot up into the air just below the Jersey Central tormlnal. The next, thing they noticed no-ticed was that every tug In the river soemod to "he headed for Communlpaw. Communl-paw. it Panics n the City. Turning to the streets below, tin- saw them black vijhthr0n66. There were panics here and thero throughout through-out the city, as far north us the Bronx. The jai crossed many power and flro alarm wires down town and all sorts of complications ensued Firo englnos were dashing hither and thither, In quest of no existent fires Terrified tenants made matters worse by turniug in alarms that had mot sounded on their owned accord. Ambulances could not come fast enough and express wagons were commandeered. How many were Injured never will be known, but the count of thoso treated In tho Ncw York hospitals ( gtlono was 100, and in thoe of Jersey City, Ilobokcn, Union I Mil and 6iir. rounding towns, more than double that number. The estimated number of dead Is 35, of whom fhe havo been recovered. |