New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-05
BLAME FOR EXPLOSION.
INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
Dynamite Stored IN Jersey City
Without Permit.

The Grand Jury OF Hudson County, n. j., Is
., ,,yestiRate the dynamite explosion at Home
.,sod on Sunday morning, 10 try 10 place the
,asnonsibility for the accident. Prosecutor Will
,or, H Speer has ordered that this be done.
and hopes to be able 10 present the case In a
0sv DAYS Daniel McManus the superintendent.
was held, pending the investigation. Inc
,vatchraan Johnson. on whose alleged disap-
vearance the Coroner was TO have an inquest
Yesterday is not missing. at least officially.
Coroner. sohleInrn said that he had found that
she only Waterman was the Italian now IN the
North Hudson Hospital. The Coroner is salts
FED that no one was killed
No one excepting the Bradley company and
one or two county officials have been allowed
10 see the wreck OF the powerhOuse. The only
place the public has been allowed 10 get at
since the explosion is the hole where the maya
zine stood
Jersey city avoke yesterday 10 the fact that
Il might have had earthquake OF its own.
lanes Connolly, inspector OF combustioles'
hasn't got over a scare he received IN the
morning In a little place near the tunnel In
I5tb street he found a quantity OF dynamite
stored. He was told that he could find more
behind a house IN Palisade avenue. With Fire
Csutain Peters he went there, ana then to an
old building IN 18th street used as a coffee
house 10y Negro tunnel workers. They found
a crowd o. Negroes shooting craps. The Negro
vvatchrnan was asleep in q chair tilted back
against the wall beside hot radiator. On top
of the radiator we're fifteen sticks Of dynamite.
Here's Connolly" sang out one Of the crap
plavers. The Waterman awoke ana threw the
dynamite into box by the radiator with one
sweep Of his arm. Connolly and Peters had TO
pinch themselves five minutes later TO make
sure they had not been blown up. On the sec
pound boxes OF the explosive. some OF the boxes
also containing the caps with illuminate OF meT-
curry. which can be exploded with slight con-
cussion.
Owing TO the conditions at 18th and 10Th
streets Connolly has revoked the permits 70
store dynamite, which viii stop work on the
Lackawanna tunnel and the MoAdOo tunnel TO
Hoboken Because Of the storage OF fifteen
hundred pounds Of dynamite by the Pennsy1-
vania Railroad on their pier Pier c. two super
intendents were fined a few days ago. The fol-
lowing day Connolly found that no further COM
pliance had been made With the law and hailed
the tunnel men TO court again. They VIII be
tried before Police Judge Higgins In the First
Criminal Court on Thursday.
Connolly win visit every tunnel to-day. He
has ordered the Fire Department to investigate
every greenhouse in the Hudson City district
he having been told that the LaclEawanna has
stored great quantities IN old greenhouse
Creenville. too, Is said 70 be IN danger. II is
said 10 have a ton OF the explosive planted IN q
meadow near the river.
The tunnel workers at Homestead are all
back AT work. one OF them, William Miller. OF
East New Durham. said yesterday.
The FIRST We knew Of the explosion was when
the lights went out. We all had regular miners
lamps, and got out by their light without trou-
bic. We heard the report which sounded like
ordinary battery blast, and did not learn
what hSd happened until after we left the
tunnel"
The damage done 10 glass by the shock viii
amount close 70 $4,000 that in Union Hin sIona
exceeding $1,000. Some new freaks Of its ac-
tion were reported yesterday one Of them was
IN a Union Hin drygoods store Saturday night
there were lot Of children's caps in the show
window. The caps had knitted woollen tassels
ana cords When the big glass was sprung the
tassels were blown through the space between
me glass and the frame. Then the window was
sprung back without breaking leaving the tas-
SIS outside and the caps inside.
me explosion recalls a similar accident fhirtv-
one years ago when the tunnel of the Delaware
lacKaWanna & Western Railroad from Hobnken
10 the western slope Of the Hill was being con-
sNteteo The dynamite magazine exploded m
saturday night at almost the same hour a.
lne one AZ Homestead. The watchrnan OF the
magazine was blown TO atoms, thousands OF dol
lars worth 81 glass in houses for miles around
was demolished and the decoration was heard
within radius Of fifteen miles.