The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-20

join the crash of breaking window glass
No Onr IN tn" school WAS seriously ia
jursd
While priests. ambulance SURGEONS
iiremsn and policemen We're at work car
ing for the wounded in the streets. form
ing fire lines and inspecting the shatter.,
buildings. a smaller force WAS Digging
INTO the debris Of the ruined power sta
ton "a fast a. the streams from tn. hos.
drove back the flames and COOLED tn,
tangled mass.
The shock Of the explosion travelled
south down the railroad wards hard enough
To knock Harry Lacy. IN" trainma-t-r.
/ from his stool in hi- otfic" shed "A hlnct,
below tn. power station iII"N : arm
was broken and TN. Ilt'le Office WA
wrecked
PRESIDENT BRowS Ape AXIS
President Brown hsdn reached his
! Office when III" explosion came. but ht
! arrived a few minutes later ana AT once
Joined Chief Engineer ti~org. " hit
| fridge Vice President Smith. { !. Bardo
assistant general superintendent III IN.
electric division; \ X Nhaley. tho term
inal manager. and other officers of the
road at The Ss'.n. Of the trouble
The bodies al ' " Iivermorr. a car
INSPECTOR, Patrick Jordan. IA track fore
a.. and Thomas stage, Waterman Of
III" Transformer station. were found i'm
m.phar"lv. After the searching party
had burrow"i until = o'clock IN. body II
and James cunningham carpenter
was taken out aliv" hut 80 badly crushed
thar " was feared al Flower Hospital he
would die
TROLLEY CARS STALLED IN DEBRIS
While the wounded who were too
badly hurt Ia help themselves after
treat ment We're being cared FOR by the
AIR saFta nl
Bellevue hospitals The polics. had stab
lSh-d lines shutting Uh all travel ON
Lexington aVrnu. for several blocks
and ia the side -treets. Trolley car ser
vice ON the avenue was stopp'-d and
when n was resumed later no stops wrr.
allowesl for several blocks on either side
Of Fifti.'h street The cars swept by
with closed gaie- while the pas's-n gers
pressed their faces against the windows
and Ga1s-i III as'unlshm.nt AT the blank
faced house fronts where glass and sash
had ynn" 10y the l."ari
LIKE \ BOMBAkDED CITY
From Fnr1ysixth TO Fifty second
street the avenue was covered with bricks
plaster dust. fragments OF beams anl
broksn glass. TN" debris growing thicker
a. The scene III IN. explosion was reached
This with the holes III the wallis wher"
windows had once been gave the section
"a likeness Ia that Of "A city which had been
suffering a severe honbardmsnt
When the pole. began to AXE stock Of
the damage hey found that the five story
brick building on III" northwest corner Of
Lexington av"nu" and Fit,Isth street had
apparently suffered most. Lloyd Ds-
borne. the author. and -t"pson Of Robert
Louis Stevenson. has an apartment on
tho third floor of TINS binding. 4 do
-CriptIon of the damage there Will indicat"
what happened IN other parts of the
buil,Sng OF cuurs. the windows were.
oil hn F,si
the. floors and lying in the glass wer"
hooks which had been hurled from th"'r
Cas.--. and Judging from appearances
whirl-d about - II by cyclone No
hr"akabl. article IN the room remained
unhroken. but the pictures had stayed or
IN. walls. for the most part. although
those having glass had lost 1t.
tiein-r r Wolff antique shop on IN.
ground floor Of this building was wrecked.
No on. in the. building WAS badly hurt.
hut on" woman who had gwen birth To
"A child only IL few hours b"fOr" suffered
from shock and was taken to th. Flower
Hospital.
Shops and apartments along feNingt on
avenue for "A block and a half north nf
FiftI-thfstre--t suffered like damage. but
intless degree. At III" New York Nursery
and Child's Hospital 100 babies. most of
whom had been knocked about by 'h..
explosion but non. Of whom was hurt
were mad. comfortable ia the rear of
: he building while workm"n began max
ing tn. main building habitabl"
Nothing lik. an accurate estimate Of
the damage don. by tn. explosion could
b" made yesterday; one gIi.'-s placed u
az more than sl.ODO.WO Among IN"
buildings injured was Public school ~
in East Fifty-tirst street bet w-sn Park
and Lexington avsnue- In one room "A
heavy ceiling beam fell Their. were no
chi liren there AT that hour Tn. r 4 VI
Sphaefer Hr.WIup COMMANDS Ilauf IN
East Fiftv-fir street was badly shaken
and IL was reported that -orn- of tn.
was damaged
TRAINS KEPT Of RUNNING.
Prac' ically the only interruption 10
traffic in th. wards ~ the Central accord
ing to Manager Valley. was an eight
minute delay immediately after the ex-
,bIOsIon due 10 ia. Co'upl"u" ti.ip of
IN. storag. yard. Whom H. was found
that the electrical service. equipment
was uninjured trains were rim again on
schedule Tie. Twentieth Century Lin
tied was twenty ON" minutes late. hut
officials sav that III" explosion had moth
ing 70 do with this.
Passengers on lonker- train that
~a- pulling into III. var,.S Were. d.af.ned
nd stunned bv IN" explosion. but
here was no panic and 'hp women in the
rain went out quietly All II the pas
sengers were of the opinion that there
had been premature blast II dynamite
Most of them went through the waiting
room and down town without waiting 10
find out anything NOR. definite.