The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-28

timate has been made of the losse! tractors.
 Fortunately the explosion occurred al
 the noon hour, one of the slackest hours
 in the day at the Grand Central station
 In the smoking room at the southwest l corner a number of men were slightly injured by bits of glacc. Four ticket
 sellers on duty a the time were all cut
 about the heads and arms by flying
 slivers of glass.
 l The clerical force in the executive of I fees of the New York, New Haven and
 Hartford railroad, which occupy the | floors above the first in the eastern wing of the depot, were thrown about by the shock of the explosion. A. T. Turner, a record clerk in Superintend-
 ent Shepards office, was thrown from his chair and his hands were badly lac erated. MT. Shepard himself was in New Haven.
 In the next room to Turner's Chief Dispatcher G. H. Wilson and his four assistants, who were directing the
 trains of the New Haven line and had several hundred trains to look after, were scratched by flying glass, but did not even leave their chairs.
 President Newman of the New York Central, whose offices are on the second floor, nearly half way down the Wander bilt avenue side. was at the desk at the time of the explosion. He immediately rose, unhurt, and went into the offices of the superintendent of motive power on the Forty second street side. There he viewed the wreckage, He acknowl- edged being badly frightened.
 The station presented weird sight as dusk fell tonight, The big windows were only ragged holes, and yards of muslin had been stretched across them during the afternoon as a protection for the clerks within. They performed their work in overcoats during the af- ternoon.
 There was clash in court this after noon between District Attorney Jerome and Coroner Golddenkranz. MT. Jer- ome was in his offices examining Shaler, Bracken and McGrath, the men under arrest, when policeman assigned to the coroner's office entered, and, under the coroner's instructions, demanded that the prisoners appear before that official. MT. Jerome allowed them to go, but he and his assistants followed them.
 Coroner Golddenkranz, who had al [ ready impanelled jury, opened court | and listened to an affidavit by a patrol | man which said he had arrested the | three men and that there had been an . explosion. Mir Jerome insisted that there was no information in the affida- vit on which to hold anybody. There was a very wordy wrangle between the two officials, In spite of protests the gave the case to the jurymen, who retired and came back with yer lict recommending the discharge of the prisoners. The coroner then opened court as a sitting magistrate, had the men rearrested and held them without pail More protests came from MT. Jer- 1me and the coroner changed his de- ,ision, holding the man in $10000 bail each.
 All this had worked up the fel1ings of so much that there was a rec fight in which MT. Jerome was truck in the face by John Murray, a
 
 " two of the district attorneys detec- ives Then the detectives and Murray lad each other arrested, but soon better ounsel prevailed and all charges were , for the present. , Andrew Murray was locked up at po- lee station tonight, though no charge vas placed against his name. Murray i ad charge of passing out the sticks of ynamite to the men in the tunnel who lere engaged in making blasts. He said ! here were about twenty sticks of dy- | amite in the shanty when the eXplo- I ion occurred. q hat the members of the society may ( njoy one evening among themselves. I is expected that this idea will before C cry long become popular and that the r ther societies will follow out the plans tarted by the above society. Dancing [ ill start promptly at o'clock and the c )ciety wishes alhmembers to come as I arly as possible. Dancing will be con- f nued until about 10 p. m., when @