The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-02-02
Search Being Made and In
yestigations Started To-day
TO FERRET OUT EXPLOSION
Which Shook New York Yesterday Aft
ernoon and Destroyed Great Amount
of Property-Powder Trust May
Be Besieged with Suits,

New York. Feb. ?. Criminal prosecu.
tion and hundredA Of civil suits for dam
ages viii be started Immediately against
the powder trust if it is found that the
trust was responsible for the presence
on the Jersey City pier Of the dyna-
mite that exploded yesterday afternoon,
killing an unknown number Of people
and doing damage Of $25oooo to the
Jersey Central railroad. $4,000 to I'll.
lis island, and breaking 100000 worth
of plate glass in Jersey and New York.
Two bodies and portions Of another
are now at the morgue Capt. Burnett
Of the tug Twohey died at the hospital
last night. Nothing has been found Of
the crew Of seven on the barge Kather-
ine w, where theg explosion occurred,
OF Of the three who are thought to
have been aboard the lighter Hustler,
which sank afterwards, or Of twelve
Polish laborers, who are thought to have
been working near the explosion
Great feeling has been aroused about
the city BY the matter Prosecutor GAR
ven took the evidence to the grand jury,
and preliminary hearing began to-day.
Inspector Of Combustibles Connolly also
began an investigation to-day as to how
the explosive entered, uureported
against the city laws. Furthermore
Coroner Haughtin began inquest To fix
the responsibility for the death of the
four men, whose bodies he has.
A cargo Of dynamite was being trans
ferred from freight ear to the hold Of
the Katherine W. at pier No. z. Conn
munipay, n J.. and the cause Of the
explosion IS yariously attributed to the
dropping Of can Of dynamite and to
the explosion of boiler on the YES
sell
The katherine W. owned hy James
Healing Of Jersey City, vanished utter.
III with her crew of seven men, in
Guiding the master, Edward Trayer.
Alongside the lighter Hustler, owned BY
the American Storage 4 Delivery com
pany of New York, was 50 badly shat
tered that She sank with her crew Of
two. while the Swedian steel barkentine
lngrid, biscuit toss to the south, was
stripped Of her rigging and the lives Of
two deekhands aboard We're snuffed ont.
Fragments Of one mans head were found
swinging high on q tangled piece of rope.
The freight car went mp in q puff
of dust. On the rear dock Of the bar
kentine Ingrid We're found pair Of
iron trucks. They may be the trucks
Of the dynamite car or OF one Of the
other four cars standing near that were
also torn to bits. Fifty yards back
stood another car OF dynamite The
explosion ripped the root Of it, and
broke in the doors, but tile dynamite
did not explode
For 100 feet the pier end itself was
utterly demolished The planking
seemed to have been ground to powder,
Girders, pianking cross stays, all The
massive framework OF pier built TO
uphold locomotives and loaded trains
We're as nothing A steel gondola car
on the southernmost track looked like
an old hat that had been used for a
football
All about were strange freaks Of the
explosion. One freight car had the root
blown inward. but the sides were un-
touched. The iron sheathing Of the
freight house on pier No 6, to the north,
was pushed inward on the side nearest
the explosion and outward ON the far
ther side.
Tn the train shed of the terminal
nearly the whole southern portion of the
glass roof had collapsed, showering the
passengers with broken glass One man
was struck BY a 20pouud fragment
and so severely cut that he died after
wards. An engineer in a shunting loco
motive was blown from his cab and
died of a fractured skull A tug boat
captain was hurled from his wheel house
aud fished out of the water fifteen min.
utes later swimming about the south
ern side of the demolished pier
Rhinelander Waldo, fire commissioner
for New York. and Chief Croker were
among the first to reach Communipaw
from New York. A picked band Of New
York police accompanied them and rem
dered valuable aid to the injured Am
balances could not come fast enough
and express wagons were eommandeered
for duty in their place, How many were
injured will never be known in full,
but the count of those treated in the
New York hospitals alone was 100 and
in those of Jersey City, Hoboken, I'm
ION and surrounding towns, more than
double that number.
The known dead are. Burnett. Rob
ert, New York, captain of the tug John
Twohey, blown from his wheel house:
Moro, Giantonomo. dock hand. killed on
the harkentine Ingrid; Moro, Michaele.
his brother; Mcneil. Charles. engineer of I
yard locomotive, blown from his cab;
Barbour. Robert. incoming Jersey Cen
tal passenger, killed by falling glass;
Armstrong. James, captain of the powd
er boat Hustler; unidentified man, one
OF Hustlers crew.
The known missing are: Tuver. Ed
ward, master of The katherine w;
HeiHzemau, Louis, engineer Of the Kath
crime w; Acklcy Frank. crew; Aekley.
Henry, crews Stolpa Oscar, crew; Lon-
don. James. crew Belgian, Louis. crew
Thought 10 he missing. Dozen mideu-
titled laborers Just getting ready 60 eat .
luncheon on pier No. Z when The eX- J
plosion came
SEVERAL RODTFS WASHED ASHOPE .