The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-02-02
threw him hca first downward and he
epit his head on an iron bucket.

eplt his head on an iron bucket.
TMe Nova Scotia schooner B. P. Hard
wick, although loss hammered than the
Norwegian. went through, as Skipper
Sanders aid. N bit OF hell you don't get
IN Nova Scotia" Sanders. a little smiling
wrinklcd sea captain who has one eve.
hut mighty sharp ona. was ing him
self comfortably for lu"ch in his cabin
His mind was full cf ,h" troubles he hnd
had working the two ma st N down the coast
and lie was giving n barge Cip,a,r ac-
Quaintance ar idea Of what til" North
Atlantic can do to a little fellow in January
You can take my word for il" the little
skipper said. that we had 10 hire couple
Of tugs out Of Boston just to throw no,
wnter into o,r rigging and melt the ice
And coming down the Sound WASH, much
better. But, thank God that's over"
And tho noxi instan, his head hi, the
ceiling and he landed back in the middle
of his lunch. lie wasn't hurt. nor were
any members of hs crow Of seven. but
for fcw minutes he feared the Hardwick
would sink or catch fire. The worst
used Of ih" Hardwicks folk was the cap
tain's son Murray. n twclvo-yesr-cld.
who showed proudly collection Of bruises
and badly swollen hand. Cup'n Sanders
pointed to IA ruined compass and chronom-
eter, but he was no worse of in that or tire
loss Of other useful things than Cap,
Eric Darnoll ot tho Irgrid
I'm satisfied" sid Capt Eric. We
got out better than any man might ex-
pect. and thank God 60" it"
Another vcss'l roughly handled was
the hshtc- Empcro- Her engine room
was wrecked Ivy the force Of the CON
oussion Th" only man badly hurt aboard
was Enginco, Mcneil He ives driven
90 hard agairs. a shaft ih-t his skull
vas fractured and no vas injured in
te:nally Edwin Bgg Of tho Ben Frank
lin T ansro.tation Compnny lust nrn-
aged 10 dod-e heavy boom tha, landed
with u c,a ash ha side. and hc picked
uf little me- plate which d. -oppcd
from someahe.e, plato which bore
this inscription: "i'he trhcd States
Standa d Blasting ComraTys machine
will fi-e one 10 twcn.y holes To fire,
draw handl" w untll /; stoEs. hen push
down quickly with full force II was
surmsed that firing machines might
have heen in IN" exploded ca
OF the o,her vessels uaa u" all SUI E
fa.ed abou, alike Glass was broken,
AID they will have 20 pa'rh up holes
where pianks lc; 60 Son" oi them,
hoyeve was in any DANCE of sinking
although several were straight ia the
path of tho concussion
The drive of the explosion took a nor; H.
eastward path. although it was felt Sc
verelv along the waterfront To tho south
haps half a mile awav Ellis Island
reported alarmed immigrants and a
generally unsatisfactory showing in glass,
hui no special harm was done
CARS GO TO THE JUNK HEAr.
To the northeast il was decidedly
another story. rhe river end Of Pier o
was smashed almost rs hadlv "a the
end Of Pier 9 Denuded piles rrared
their heads Mp through h"aving tlmbers
and half a dozen freig.t cars will go
to the junk heap from that pier Ava
back toward the land end or No q Won
could get notion Of wha' III" forco must
have been when you looked a. ION inch
spikes pulled clear out of the heavy tim
bers into which thev hnd been se' aol,dlv.
Pier 5. across another tongue of wa;s9
to the nor1h. held tho main freight hous"
OF the terminal a steel and wood building
covered with corrugated iron and pach..i
full Of mixed freights Tn" south lido
roughly the rihs Of big ship hefor" he
pilates arc rive'"d on except that they
were bent in tn" wrong "u'v" Twenty
foot sheets Of corrugated iron Ind oacn
pluckod from the pin- sidc~ and hung
dangling toward tho wate,'. Eve:y square
inch o! glass III IN. freight shed was
smashed Of course. Piles Of boxes and
barrels were Upset and rolled h"i;e'
skelter 70 N" imminent peril nj III" freight
handlers. d dozen OF whom wrre kEo" cd
down ard bruised or cut
A. Pclle2rir.0, ~" s'avNiore Co,,' ~ or.
whose men were unloading ~" inCrt
said last rign' that he hfi twra y rsn
on tho Vessel and that h" knew rlCa'"'I
OF them escaped With only slight iniuri"
Further 10 tho north h.,.HcNn ~"
freight shed and the team shed guG st1-
tion are a dpz n small huiId'rgs. nrs' of
them frame shact, sod a. ofhocs .Td
store houses. ih"y l,ok"d a. i' n mild
earthauak" had En,t'nn rN.m fuo or
two lelned fror lrmh. although rcne
won. d>vn bnt "Tn-v SinCl" on Oc 40 n
showed zpraincd sidz. with gazing hol,,'
Window ria : had nor been rrok"n n"r. Il,
me rra an1.s had b""n sNatch"d out oi ia.
cIsinc" and slammed 20 m" ground or
,eft 10 hing tooiishlr, If You took u TOOL.
inside tins corral It Offices and store
rooms YOU srwt'bl's overturned nd h"-e
and the n h Oxen chair som" OF tn"
emrloyecs wh h1d been ns'd" th"m when
the jar kit s.id that tlor were thrown
hard ir I'm their chairs or desk 'ools and
dropped on the floor
JERSEY fSTPAL ''TATIo> DkNAGf.
Pm aside from the Norweg an sh y and
ter deck load OF mixed rubpish. the zig
s-a,iCn cf the Jersey Central Railroad
wa. he mos. p!ctureslu" exhibit of the
explosion Taxing 'he ferrvtouso from
t-c North FiNer side n. you Went in'o he
slip Won sa'r VIVA a TesS had been made
~ the rig c.oci IN me .Over rs steel
hands mad been ie,i: ed from neir sock 81
and ne dial had been pushed inward
tuS, &c one would hammer in he head Of
can 1, had tried lis hes; 10 resista'
the minr,e Of the explosion. but the Job
tad reen 100 much for II Tho short
noGr hand stood upright az MI, but the
lighter minute hand had dropped down
around the broken face 20 eighteen min
uces past
The glass roofing Of the ferryhouse
was gone and the sunlight shone straight
through to the grimy roadways. Burst
planking protruded TO the right and left
on the way 70 the waiting room and the
restaurant. Nothing solid was damaged
but nothing frail or loose was left intact
The first thing that caught the eye in
the waiting room was the clock on the west
wall. a clock which had done it's honest
duty. Hour and minute hand reached
straight up the dial to MI. and the clock
hadn't ticked n tick since the big jar
affected it's insides 4 great many things
had happened in that waiting room. A
woman with baby was sitting about in
tho centre of il Down came n inCred