Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-02-02
LIST OF CASUALTIES
MAY NOUN UP HIGH
WINDOWS IN ALL PARTS or cirM1
SHATTERED, INJuRlNo RN.1
ISLANDERS; FERRY BOAT PAs.i
sENGERs IN PANIC,

New York, Feb. Ia dynamite er.,
piosion on the Jersey City front. h,st
before noon today shook New YORK
City and its vicinity for miles around
TO Its very foundation and caused n
heavy financial loss. The explosion o.,
Cured as the dynamite cargo of 4
nghter moored at Jersey Centrs1
pier was being unloaded into 4 freight
car. The explosion wrecked eyervthinr
IN the vicinity Of the pier and shoos
Manhattan Island, Brooklyn and tha
country within twenty miles OF Jersey
CITY Window gla. was smashed ~
thousands OF skyscrape pers in New York
including the financial district.
An estimate OF the killed or fatally
injured ran from half dozen nm to .
score or more. The Immediate scene -
tne explosion was utterly devastated
and 1t is believed that men WORKING
close by were blown to bits. The nnm.
Der OF injured runs into the hundreds.
Many Dead and Injured.
At $3.50 o'clock this afternoon It was
SAID that from ten to twelve men who
were working. at the end of the pier
where the explosion occurred were
missing and were believed to have
been killed. o
rive others were probably fatally
injured. From 80 to 100 men were On
the pier at the time and most of these
were injured to greater or less ex.
tent.
A priest stated that he had admin.
1stered the last sad rites to Ave man
and he saw one headless body. Many
OF the injured were blown into the
river. The passengers Of q ferryboat
were badly injured.
Panic on Ferryboat.
On the ferryboat SomervilIe. which
was passing UP the river, panic On.
sued. A rush was made for life pre-,
servers and the women and children
began to scream. They were running
about with blood streaming from theiY
races from cuts made by the glass
and wood splinters. When the bost
reached shore temporary hospital
was established on board.
Outside Of the banking Offices Of !.
T. Morgan & Co., at Broad and Wall
streets, the impression prevailed that
bomb had been exploded. A crowd
of thousands had collected about the
entrance. Most Of the windows Of the
Morgan building had been blown in.
There was tremendous excitement
on the floors of all the exchanges
Trading on the stock exchange was
practically suspended for time while
the brokers darted out to see what had
happened.
The force Of the explosion blew out
glass windows and doors on buildings
from Cortlandt street down to the Bat.
terry.
Terror in skyscraper District.
The whole front Of Henderson,s
seed house on Cortlandt street was
blown out and many window panes In
the. Hudson buildings were shattered.
There was much excitement in the tall
Singer building. Some people who were
in the tower at the time say they felt
1t sway. There was rush for the ele-
vators and for time the cars were
taxed. Glass windows in the Cafe Sa-
varite were blown in and several din
ers sitting near the front of the cafe
narrowly escaped.
People who witnessed the explosion
from the windows of Office buildings on
the harbor saw black cloud shoot up
ward to great height, estimated at
several hundred feet
Men and women swarmed out Of the
buildings, some of them by fire es-
capes. The firemen found the street
dangerously crowded and the side
walks covered with broken glass,
while frightened storekeepers guarded
their exposed wares.
1t was fortunate that no immigrants
were being held at Ellis Island. There
would have been heavy loss of life.
Great damage at the station was
caused Windows all over the island
were smashed and many employees
were injured by glass.