The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-02
mantle BLOWS
|DP, KILLING 81
.,serapers of New York Shak-
sp by Terrific Explosion
in New Jersey.
1GHTER AND HER CREW
VANISH IN SMOKE CLOUD
|.bic Reigns With Ambulances
and Fire Wagons Rushing
Aimlessly Along Streets.

.,ru YORK. Feb. IA charge of
.,-I,e In transit from freight car
M hold Of lighter moored at pier
4, communipaw. n. j., exploded at
!. ,,;nute past noon today, l50 yards
IN Of the Jersey City terminal OF the
.r,rsl Railroad of New Jersey. In the
|aenread ruin that followed seven men
! tnown TO have been killed, seven
- are missing. hundreds were wound
md varying reports leave from Tifteen
fvsnty more unaccounted for.
5hIrty-two seems to be a conservative
innate OF the dead. and property dam
] will hardly fall below si5O,000.
fbe cause of the explosion is various
attributed to the dropping OF case
|ar,amitc and TO a boiler explosion on
hoat. The cause probably will never
known.
rhs Jersey Central terminal was
,s.ied. three ferrybcals in the slips
NJ damaged lower Manhattan, across
! riyer, WIS shaken up. severe dam
4 was done In Brooklyn and Staten Is
"A. and 10 the immigrant detention sta
a an Ellis island. The shock was felt
Amityyille. l.. l., thirty-five miles
|fnnt. and at Lons Branch, y, j.. forty
b miles away.
Boat Vanishes Utterly.
H. lighter receiving the dynamite
Z Katherine w. owned by James Heal
,et,. ttlf A, I, II
4 crew OF seven men, including the
Isfer, Edward Traver, Alongside vas
2 lighter Whistler, which was so badly
asfered that she sank with her crew
two, while the Swedish steel bnrken-
's Ingrid was stripped OF her rigging
q two deck hands aboard were killed.
nrments OF one mans head were found
'1ngng hlgh OH tangled piece OF
he Katherine w. was tied to the
|leF end Of the pier, and crew OF deck
|nds was unloading a consignment OF
|y,pound boxes from two freight cars
lhe lighter when the crash came.
O1lT the Whistler's flagstaff has been
lnd The freight car went Zip in a
N OF dust On the rear deck OF the
ID trucks. They may be the trucks
/ he dynamite car or OF one Of the
pa four cars standing near, which
he torn to bits.
fillY yards back stood another car of
ramlte. The explosion ripped the roof
\ md broke in the doors. but the dyna-
|h itseIf did not explode,
Freaks Of the Explosion.
h board the Ingrld the steel mizzen-
~ snapped off above the lower yard
n lad .t<1l IT
'oqt the docks. Everything aloft was
l held.
fu 100 feet the pier end was demol-
pa. The planleing seemed to have
>n fround 10 powder. Over the broken
rs twisted the steel rails Of tracks.
wee gondola car on the southernmoSt
-1 looked Ike an old hat used for
~ about were strange freaks of the
'toslch. One freight car had the roof
nn inward as II IL had been crushed
laillng boulder, but the sides were
a1nssed The iron sheathing of the
.lsht house on pier No 6, 10 the north.
d pushed inward on the side nearest
ehpiosion and outward OH the farther
ue train shed OF the terminal near
ue whole southern exposure oi the
Iool collapsed. showering the pas
- with broken glass. One man was
.A Dy twenty-pound fragment and
fcerely cut that he died.
Blown Out Of Engine Cab.
m sngineer on shunting locomotive
uown from his cab and died of 4
stgred skull. a tugboat CAPTAIN was
from his whcelhousc and GsheC
~ tnc water fifteen minutes later.
Js ris, !n passenger station. damage
]s-sa sai''ole everywhere. The floors were
,,t.u WSh broken glass, Windows
- As On me inner court had been
~ rom the frames. sashes and all
S5s were torn from the roof. The
Th W me Terry house clock were torr
.stshoaes, southern wall bulSed like a
's~Vasa ~ noX left out in the rain
||,isrs" "eae no sashes In most Of the
&rsrs ano no glass in those that had
Il Ss, ~ ,F,tyooats OF the Central Railroad
|.jsss,d' 'eIsey, the Somerville and tbs
II .hlr5 iay IN the terminal slips. ant
IA III. llle Lakewood WAS lust edginl
nv .r river All OF them carecned VIC
~ lnu were showered with their owr
-. ~ Sny Sy of the wounded passenger.
. h yew" "y@ York for treatment.
unrsr,aiiork iork the terror was intensified
Do u,h.,s, VI tldIt an hour NOBODY
b. n n.ht ,s mad happened or where
loEcsru w. uis Ns rocking sllyscrapers though
them noors had been torn from un
massI,o ~ Those in the street though
>bkd ~ lowers above them had beer
IS bruLsyn pI%n' Literally. acres Of glas
aaAes NET Eighteen windows wer
ldInc n The Standard oil compon,
INA ell IN Trinity church. yal,iab bl.
|es 'Ass window was strewn In lin,
ss,, Panic in Big City.
1iinr .. men who happened 10 b.
Royih az windows looking out Owe
pt into Iser saw a pun OF yellow dus
ntrai ts me air Just below The Jersc
sina uinal l and then drift dow
b sSed until 1t covered the termins
thai o, The next thing they notice
y besddssssfything In the river SCENE
aruIns ,a Tor Cornmunipaw.
n tlack c ne streets below. they sax
lnc,isMith win a surgiug thrung. Ther
'ueho,i INV panics here and ther
- u'e city, as far north as in