Arizona republican., 1911-02-02
THIRTY MEN WERE KILLED
Damage to the Amount of Three-quarters of a Mil lion Was Done-Disap- pearance of Vessel Upon Which Explosive Was.

New York. Feb. 1-Dynamite in transit from a freight car to an old lighter moored at pier No. Commun- ipaw. N. J.. exploded one minute past noon today and in the widespread ruin that followed seven are known to have been killed, seven fatally wounded and hundreds less seriously. Various re- ports place the number of unaccOunted for at from fifteen to twenty. Thirty seems a conservative estimate of the dead and $750.OO0 the property loss.
 The explosion occurred 15O yards south of the Jersey City terminal of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the cause is variOusly attributed to the dropping of a case of dynamite. and to the blowing up of the boiler of a boat
 The Jersey Central terminal was wrecked three ferrybOats in the slips were damaged: lower Manhattan. across the river. was shaken from the street level to the top of the Singer tower: severe damage was done in Brooklyn and Staten Island. and to the immigration detention station on Ellis Island; the shock was felt at Amityville. l.. l.. thirty-five miles distant. and at Long Branch, N. J. forty-five miles away. The lighter receiving the dynamite the Katherine w, owned by James Healing of Jersey City-vanished ut terly with her crew of seven men, in- cmding the master. Edward Traver.
 Alongside was the lighter Whistler. so badly shattered that she sank with her crew of two. while the British steam barkentine Ingrid, was stripped of her rigging and two deck hands were killed. Fragments of one man head were found swinging high on a | tangled piece of rope. The Katherine w. was tied to the outer end of the pier and her crew of dock hands were unloading con signment of fifty pound boxes of dy- namite from two freight cars to the lighter when the crash came One re- port was that the explosive was con signed to contractors up the river for blasting along the Palisades, and another that it was bound for Havana
 There were many strange freaks oi the explosion. The engineer in shunt- ing his locomotive twas blown From | the cab and died of a fractured skull A tugboat captain was hurled rom the wheelhouse and was fished from the water fifteen minutes later. | In New York the terror was intensi- fled by uncertainty. For half an hour nobody knew what had happened or where. Those in the rocking sky scrapers thought that the lower floors had been torn from under them
 AmbuIances could not come fast enough and express wagons were communicated How many were m nred will never be known, but the co,,nt of those treated in the hospitals of New York alone was 100. and those i'm Jersey City. Hoboken. Union Hiil and surrounding towns more thar double that number.
 If is estimated that the number ol dead is thirty-two. of whom five have been recognized.
 The known dead:
 RITRNETT. Robert. of New York lcaptain of the tug John Iwohey' blown from a wheel house MORO. Giantonimo. dock hand killed on the barkentine lngrid. MORO. Michael | M'NEIL. Charles. engineer or switci kengine.
 HARBOUR. Robert. on incomint lJersey Central passenger train' kiiie' by falling glass.
 ARMSTRONG. James. captain o line boat Whistler.
 Unidentified man. one or ms crew.
 Known missing;
 Traver Edward. master of stean Lighter Katherine W.
 Heinzman. Louis. engineer or haoi' erine w.
 Ackley. Frank.
 Ackley. Henry.
 Stolpe, Oscar.
 London, James.
 Belgian. Louis. all of crew.
 Thought missing: Twenty unldehu fled laborers.
 ctxEn HIS OWN BAIL.