Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-02-02
Civil Actions to Be Started
for Great Damage Done
in New York.
HUDSON GRAND JURY BUSY
No Trace of Crew of the !
Barge Has Been
Found.
NUMBER DEAD UNKNOWN
Think II Polish Laborers
We're Working Nearby at
the Time.
NUMBER DEAD UNKNOWN
Special by Unsted Prsss Wire.

Special bv United Prsss Wire.
New York, Feb. 2:-Crimlna1
prosecution, as well as civil action
for damages, is to be begun against
the powder trust officials responsible
for the presence in Jersey City
pier, of dynamite, which caused yes<
terday's disaster, which killed, az
yet, an unknown number OF men,
! and caused damage amounting to
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The grand jury of Hudson coun>
| ty has begun preliminary inyesti>
cation of the disaster.
The authorities today admit that
they have no positive knowledge OF
the number OF dead. Two bodiea
and portion of third, of men
killed, are at the morgue. Captain
Burnett, of the tug John Poorly, died
In hospital.
Up to the present time no trace
| has been found OF the captain and
crew of six OF the Catherine w, the
boat on which the explosion took
place, or of the three men thought
to have been on the lighter Hustlers
which sank after the explosion.
Railroad officials believe that
there were twelve Polish laborera
working about the dynamite-laden
cars and they say none of them has
since been seen.
/ The known dead number about thir-
J ty. although it is believed that many.
more were drowned or blown to atomss
OF this number, with few exceptions.
i all were members OF the crews o. thu
Katherine w. and the Whistler tna
tusboats at pier I In the Jersey Ten
: traps terminals. These bs5sstA
tnx loaded With Ays.a
s!s
Z. - xsssst 1ssslsssE sss : :
boat John Foohsy jf s zs5ss s33sSssB#
Giovanni Moro. Brootfyn ats
schooner Ingrfd A 4
MichaN, Moro, Brooklyn. employee OF
fps Kid.
leNnidentihed man found on pier 9
\ Frank Ackiey and Henry Ackley, BROTH
ers. of Jersey City, deck hands on Kath~
crime w.
Captain James Armstrong of the Whis-
tier.
4 Charles Hawkins and Louis Hetzman.
engineers ON the whistler
James Lundgren, cook on the katherine.
Captain George Treyer and Oscar Sto-
lice. deck hand, both of the katherine.
Won der Brock. fireman on Katherine.
] In the neighborhood of the explosion
the destruction was SO complete that
1t was next TO impossible to determine
the number killed or the reason car
load of giant powder and quantity
| stored in two lighters let go. II Is
probable that thirty men lost their
! lives and that twenty-five of these
were blown to pieces near the pier
end
/ The big and little cargo boats that
had tucked their fat selves into Com
mun.paw's busy harbor were sounding
eight bells and the shop whistles ON
both sides of the river were screech-
ing noon when the whole community
knew that catastrophe had occurred.
There came roar that overwhelmed
all the little noises of New York har-
Dor. crushing, terrifying wave OF
sound like the great guns of all the
forts letting off In company.
Wreckage Was Everywhere.
1t was several minutes before the
railroad men in the terminal UNDER
stood exactly what had occurred.
Their first business had been TO save
their heads, for the glass roofs of their
buildings were falling on them, and
planks ripped loose from their piers
had been flying past their heads. Aft
er they had climbed out of the heaped
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