Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-02
VICTIMS OF DYNAMITE Gxploa.
ION At JERsEv CITY BLOWN
TO AroMA
FAR WORSE pisAsTER
MYsrERIousLY AvgRrEp
Fifty Thousand Pounds ef Dynamite In
Nearby Cars Failed 20 Gxplods-
One Hundred Injured Taken 90 Hes.
pitaIs-EIiis Island Was Fortunate
TsIsoraphie Ns~s.

New York. Feb. 2.-The total OF dead
and missing in yesterday's explosion
Is now placed a: thkty. Tho coroner
has list OF seven. and that official
believes that most OF tho twenty-three
men missing werc blown to atoms.
The property loss estimates vary
from $7soooo to sl.ooo.ooo. Tho dynA-
mite that exploded 10 estimated At 50.-
900 pounds. There was. however.
marvellous escape from q bigger dlsas-
ter. for another $4,000 pounds OF tho
explosive wero In cars within 100 feet
OF that which blew up: tho cars which
contained It werc twisted and torn and
boxes w'ere strewn on every side. but
the dynamite, thick with tho dust and
aud intact.
Few Are Seriously Injured.
The ambulances made trip after trip
carrying folks to tho hospitals. About
fifty were brought over 70 Manhattan.
A hundred were taken to tho three Jer-
sey hospitals. Few were seriously hurt.
Enumerating tho dead was q puzzle
that the authorities gave up until such
definite Information as tho names and
wherea bouts OF tho Polacks who had
been loading dynamite cases OF the
lighter Katherine w. and tho lighter
Whistler. and the names and where
abouts OF the crews OF the lighters had
been obtained. There were fragments
OF bodies here and there-A leg and an
arm high up the rigging OF tho wrecked
Norwegian ship Ingrid. in from Buenos
Aires: a dead man in the hold OF tho
same ship: a shattered torso among the
coal piles on pier .. But there vvere
twenty-five men squArely at tho center
OF the explosion, and not q trace of
them save the three mangled bodies
| was found. Thrce-Quarters OF mile
! away at the Toothpick pier tho captain
OF the tughoat Tuohy was blown thru
his pilot house and killed. which made
up tho number OF dead posilveiy
known as four.
Lucky at Ellis island.
| Yesterday was tho first day. exclusive
OF holidays for six weeks. when no I'm
migrants we're received at Ellis island.
! which is about half n milo from tho ex.
plosion. On the main floor OF the reg
istry building there is a hugo room
| forty feet high with heavy glass lights
! and huge slanted windows 15x30 feet.
| This is tho room where the arriving
| Immigrants are lined up sometimes by
the hundreds between several rows Of
| iron ratings, and when tho concission
came. ii was Immediately followed by
a thunderous crash OF glass and metal
which showered the entire room. bend
ing and breaking the heavy metal rail-
ling like so much rope.
| Assistant United States Commissions
err Byron r. Ewald said there would
have been an appalling loss OF llfe ie
there had been any one on the registry
noor at the time. Just at the noon
hour about thirty inspectors and In
terpreters left tho registry floor to go
to lunch About thirty persons on the
island were hurt.
| About $4,000 worth OF plato glass
was broken In Manhattan. between thu
Battery and North street. The jar also
set the street fire alarms going. and
In Battery place. the explosion broke
| the glass covering OF an auxiliary alarm
and started the :1echanism to work.
The result was that the cxcitment
among tho lunch hour crowds in tho
lower city was Increased by tho clan1.
ing Of bells on engines and nre trucks.
The confusion was made worse In that
the drivers OF tho fire engines and
trucks could not locate tho supposed
| fire
Only five bodies had been recovered
up to noon. and the names OF only
nine OF the missing are known. Near
ly a score OF lnborers. names unknown,
who were on the pier when the expto-
sion occurred are unaccounted for.