The New York herald., 1876-09-06

were a number OF men on the deck pernaps dozen or
SO, ana they were serving splicing wires which
TO be used TO conduct the thni will be
from the batteries 10 fire The primers on the great
blast ! told Doyle when he aboard OF the
glycerine. to take It down the shaft 10 Barney
Boyle who would receive charge OF the explosive and
keep safely We had been making experiments as 10
the danger OF explosion and were 10 explode one can
while two other cans to be placed at distance OF
fifteen feet IN radius had not LETT my office a. the
time OF the explosion, and was covered with nucage
from its place. Doyle brought the stun back
against my order and placed II on the forward
open deck Of the scow. He must have been
screwng open the lids OF some OF the cans, as
probably Luerssen was. do not know and 1t Is I'M
possible to ascertain now, they dead, what oc-
Cured but there must have been care!essness. and
YET Luerssen was careful ! was not max
ing experiments at the time with iuinnat-
ing powder, and rock dynamite, or anything
else. They had nothing TO do with the primers, but
pode without conclusion, and cannot tell whether
they poured out the explosive whether they
struck on the iron plates the deck where the
hole has been made by The accident Doyle brought
up The stuff as Usual by row boat from the fats on
New Jersey shore.
MAJOR GENERAL NEwroS's STATEMENT
The HERALD reporter met Major General Newton,
who IN charge OF the He'll Gate excavations, the
Morrissania boat going inspect the scene OF the
disaster 81 received DESPATCH" said he, (which
was brought to me by reporter OF evening paper
that here mad been explosion a me excavation
by which three men were killed, but refused 10 De'
heve H. as there have ie.n false reports OF that KIND
took possession of hole made by another man In Or
der to make bigger looking days work for himself
and he engaged in drawing the charge and clean
ing out the hoe when he was Killed
Nitro lycerne is much safer than 9unpowder
loss OF life by rogycerine is only an exception
but by cunpowder II is rule II II explodos 1t isa
sad thing, this loss OF three mems lives by the en-
ploson; but the men have become careless by amil-
iarty with this n.tro-gycenine and there VIII be
sad utility in these deaths in view OF the fact
that tho great blast is coming and they will
be more careful OF their lives. NJ gycerne
does not explode without concussiop and there must
have been good deal OF negligence IN this matter "
..what number OF people up here" added the
General "simply because three have been killed.
They never have been in battle or they would stay
away, but that this morbid curiosity Will help
the lager beer saloons Tor see that they are doing
THE xASUvAcruRER's STORY
r. W. Warren, OF No. Bowling Green, manuiac-
turer cerinc asked what he knew about
the matterY He came 10 Astoria TO see how the ex-
poson WAS caused and said that unfortunately he had
10 acknowledge that he Was the manufacturer OF the
nitro gycerne that caused the catastrophe Doyle. he
said, came to HIM at seven O'Clock at Black Tom.
island the Jersey Flats, where he has his store
house and asked for fifteen pounds OF nitro gycerne
about quarts He measured ou, the stuff to
tery. and he believed that Doyle rowed up to
Astoria from the Jersey Flats In the small boat.
REPoRrER-But does not it seem quite improbable,
Mr. Warren, that Doyle should row so lar and leave
his boat and get up In time for the exposiony Did he
not really carry his six quarts OF gycerne IN brown
paper parcel loosely on Morrsana boat which left
Fulton Ferry about nine O'clock and on these boats
thero women and children in abundance at this
season OF the Year,
MI WAKREN-I dont know, but think it was usual
for him take the stuff in row boat filled cans
myself, and they had corks; they were tin cans, but
had holes in the corks to give them vent and 10 pre-
vent CONCLUSION OF the material. don't know how the
accident occurred. Doyle might have spilled some oil the
stuff. can't say that he came up on Harlem or Nor
rsania boat II impossible to find anything either
from superintendent Stredinger or Mr.. Warren to
whether Doyle or other missing men were in the habit
OF carrying nitro glycerine, with corks having holes TO
partly stop cans, crowded Harlem or Morrsania
boats. or II 1t had been often brought up
town ON tho way through the city VI New York
trucks ostlng against mlway cars and other vehicles
and endangering hundreds of lives and finally being
taben across Nnety-Second Street Ferry 10 Astoria
All OF this and Will be told by young Mccall
broher-in-law OF Doyle who was himself Government
employe and he told HERALD reporter yesterday
that he himself had sat for half hour in and OF
the Battery Slip with boatload of nrogycerine be-
longing to the government and had crowded steamer
struck the boat the passengers would never have
known what happened them. Let Davercn look to
this to-day and subpoena him as witness He
took his number yesterday.
The Coroners jury will hold an inquest at tho hotel
near the Jerry, in Astoria at two O'Clock this alter
noon. The jury all residents OF the village and
some of them employed on the excavation works.
They viewed the bodies, or rathcr tho fragments Of
bodies before they were swept up on the deck OF the
Their names are a. follows --Rae H. Smith, T. Ayers
p Murphy p. Grant. G. Downcy, II. Whitney, J. Tai
lon +. Konetts 4. Umschlug William Myers and L.
Valcry The scenes at the Morgue at Hunter Point,
where the manged bodies of the victims were seen,
were pitu in the the relatives OF the dead
amef IN ma ake