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Show 'New York City Rpcks When Dynamite Boat is Blown Up New York, Feb. 1. A dynamite explosion ex-plosion on the Jersey City" waterfront, just before noon today, caused an un-known-as-yet loss of life, shook New York city and Its vicinity for miles around to its foundation and caused Tieavy financial loss, i The explosion occurred as the dynamite dy-namite cargo, of a lighter moored at a Jersey Central Railroad pier, was being unloaded into a freight car. Window glass was smashed in thousands thou-sands of skyscrapers in New York. Panics followed In many big build- ings, but no casualties from this ' source arc reported. For a time the explosion was erroneously located at the Standard Oil company's plant at Bayonne, N. J.; at Governor's Island the military post which is the headquarters head-quarters of this division, and the subway. sub-way. It was not until the Jersey City police appealed to New York city for ambulances that the scene of the explosion ex-plosion was made known. The concussion set off many fire alarms in many portions of lower New York and tho clatter of fire apparatus and the shrill shrieks of the engine sirens added to the confusion. They found the streets and sidewalks covered cov-ered with broken glassi while storekeepers, store-keepers, guarded thoir wnres. People who witnessed tin oxplosion from tho windows of office buildings fronting on tho harbor say they saw an immense black cloud shoot upw'ard to a great height. This cloud reached ' its height before the crash of the explosion ex-plosion was heard by them, i It was fortunate that no immigrants i were being handled at Ellis Island. |