Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-02

sheathing of the freight house on Pier No to the north, was pushed inward on the side nearest the explosion and outward on the farther side.
 In the train shed of the terminal nearly the whole southern exposure of the glass roof collapsed, showering the passengers With broken glass. One man was struck by twenty pound fragment and so severely cut that he died afterwards. An engineer in a shunting locomotive was blown from his cab and died of fractured skull A tugboat captain was hurled from his wheel house and fshed out of the water fifteen minutes later, swimming about the southern side of the demol- ished pier.
 Inside the passenger station dam age was visible everywhere. TAe floors were filtered with broken glass. Windows fronting on the inner court had been sucked from the frames, sashes and all the south wall bulged so that it looked like a paper box after out in the rain. There were no sashes in most of the windows and no glass in those that had sashes.
 Passengers on Ferryboats Wounded.
 Two ferryboats of the Central Rail- road of New Jersey, the Somerville and the Plainfield. lay in the terminal slips, and the third, the Lakewood, was just edging into the river. All or them tarGGHcu NlOIenlIy, SiIiI dll Ol them were showered with their own glass. Many of the wounded passen- gers came to New York and were afterward treated at the hospitals here.
 Terror in Now York.
 In New York the terror was intens flied by uncertainty. For half an hour nobody knew what had happened or where it had happened. Those in the rocking skyscrapers thought the lower
 
 Those on the street thought the massed towers above them had been toppled down. Literally acres of glass were broken. Eighteen windows were smashed in the Standard Oil Com pany building at 26 Broadway and shook John D. Rockefeller. Jr-, at his desk. In Trinity church 8 valuable staned glass window was strewed in the aisles.
 Shock Not Felt in Subway Nor in
 Tubes.
 Strange to say office buildings on the waterfront in New York were no more jared than those on the further side of Broadway, in Wall street, Nas sau street, on the curb market row or the stock exchange itself A plate glass window in the rear of the ex- change was smashed and in the aqua rum at the southermost tip of the island twelve windows and twenty five skylights were broken Nearly every structure from Fulton street south suffered in some manner, but no damage was done to the subway anG the shock was not even felt in the Hudson tubes below the level of the Hudson river. incipient Panics All About the City. New York business men who stood at their office windows looked out over the North river at noon saw a puff of yellow dust shoot into the wind until it covered the terminal, and then drift down the wind until it covered the terminal train shed. The next thing they noticed was that every tug boat in the river seemed to be heading to Communipaw Turning to the streets below they saw them black with surging thousands. Stenogra- phers and clerks rushed into the street from every door. There were incip- | tent panics here and there throughout the city in business buildings and fac tories. The jar shook many telephone and fire alarm wires down town into unlimited contacts and all sorts of complications ensued. For one thing l fire companies on every hand began to pour into the streets. Terrified ten ants made matters worse by turning 1 in alarms that had not sounded of l their own accord.
 Injured Treated in New York Hospi- tals.
 Rhinelander Waldo, fire commission CT for New York, and Chief Croker, were among the first to reach Com 1 munipaw from New York. Picked New York policemen accompanied them and rendered valuable aid to the injured. Ambulances and express wag- ons were used in the work. How many were injured will never be known in 1 full, but the count of those treated ] in the New York hospitals alone was one hundred, and those of New Jersey, Hoboken, Union and surrounding towns more than double that number.