New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-03
MAGAZINE EXPLOSION.
Continued from first page.

WHICH the tuHHCl NSS DCAHo 49, - --S'--~
is one section of rock stratum that passes
across Manhattan and through Queens Borough.
The police Of the West 6Sth street station got
a call for the reserves a few minutes after the
crash. At No. S27 West seth street John Cap
aledi keeps saloon on the street floor in big
| tenement house The windows in the saloon were
smashed into fragments, as We're windows all
! through the tenement house. 1t was known that
the saIoonkeeper had been the recipient of sew
eraI threatening Black Hand letters and neigh
bors felt sure that the Black Hand had carried
! out its threat
Sixty-rinth street was impossible for the
crowd when the rc,erves arrived. Search failed
! to disclose any evidence of a bomb or other ex-
plosive. and it was not until the residents had
been told of the remarkable explosion in Home
stead that they became calm once more.
The shock was felt from XIngsbr:dge to South
Ferry. Even in Brooklyn the inhabitants were
aroused from their sleep. and the telephone wires
were kept busy.
At first in Manhattan II though. that gas
works on the East River has! blown up. Brook
lyn people we're divided between the destruc-
ton of For, Wadsworth and Fort Hamilton and
another wrecked Bayonne gas tank.
At about 100 O'Clock. however the police Of
Jersey City called up the police captain on duty
at Police Headquarters. Manhattan. and told
him that the crash had occurred al Homestead.
n. J.. some three miles from New York City.
The explosion Re said. near the tunnel
which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was
cutting through the Bergen Hills
The shock felt in this city alarminsly
distinct that all police stations sought to get in
communication with Police Headquarters. as did
the hospital authorities and the larger hotels,
So distinctly was the shock felt in the upper
nat Of Manhattan that Sergeant Larry Powers.
at the desk IN the fremont police station. shout
ed to the doorman 70 try to find the accident.
The men on reserve began rushing down from
the dormitory ready to turn out. believing
that something had been blown UP in the imme-
date nelghborhood.
The two sergeants in charge Of the telephone
service at headquarters were at once over
whelmed by the calls that game in. one ser
geant had charge OF four great switchooards
ard the two had charge of the eight swtchboards
that connect 300 Mulberry street" with the
scores Of precinct station houses scattered all
over the greater city. The shock Of the ex-
plosion had scarcely died away when the first
inquiry came and after that there was little
peace for the men the telephone.
At first. when nothing known as 70 the
cause Of the explosion, the police told the hos
pitfalls that they would be called again when the
cause was learned. All other parties were shut
Off"
Superintendent Rickard. in charge Of Bellevue
Hospital sent orderlIes around the institution
TO quiet the patients many OF whom left their
beds lie ordered all ambulences TO be ready
TO rush out at once Nurses and surgeons were
ordered to report call Much the same was
reported from all hospitals in Manhattan and
The Bronx.
False alarms for fire were rung in from sew
eral boxes near the big gas tanks Of the Con
solidated Gas Company scattered all over the
city. one alarm for Are was turned In from
the box At Eleventh avenue and 4Sd street. and
the fremen responding found no blaze. but the
people living in the path OF the apparatus which
responded to this alarm started for the scene
of the fire" Thousands gathered near Eleventh
avenue and 43d street. and the reserves Of the
West 47th street station were ordered out
A runor spread throughout the West Side that
an explosion had occurred I'm the Pennsylvania
tunnel. and hundreds of people from the all
night resorts in the Tenderloin rushed to the
Pennsylvania excavation at 3'd street and
Eighth avenue. The workmen there had heard
the noise but did not know until later what IT
meant. shift Of sandhogs who came from the
Manhattan side of the tunnel said they had felt
no tremors there and were surprised when they
heard of the explosion.
At the Waldorf and other uptown hotels many
Of the guests dressed hurredly and rushed To
the main floor or telephoned the clerks TO mad
what the trouble Beyond explaining
that there no Immediate danger 10 the hotel
the clerks were helpless TO cnlighten the guests
for some time The dinner in honor OF "Tody''
Hamilton at the Waldorf-Astora was disturbed
for moment. and then the festivities continued
At the Knickerbocker the manager thought
that another hywheel had burst in the electric
plant in the sub-cellar but as the lights were
not affected his mind relieved
The vibration caused burglar alarms from the
tall factory buildings TO sound. and dozens Of
police stations got burglar calls from persons
living near by.
HAD TOO MUCH DYNAMITE