New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-21

A., A. them or 80 great bridges any -ors.
sxce-, one solid marching stream q ren
ard women which fills footWsys and road
WAYS alike TIE stree,cars ani trains ard
al the cars on ,he bridges are reserved
for IRE sick Tire Cd. weak women and lit
re children The ferryhosls drive hack
and forth across ire rivers. crashing 1scs-
lessly into the slips. sailing with TIRE crowd
TANNED everywhere. IN the hurricane
decks and IN ire passages where vehicles
are carried. BsrEss. lighters. excursion
boats. even great liners carry the crowds
Every subway train ruus through with
out stopping from re HrA zone . Brook
lyn or north 70 Van Cortland Park The
Bronx branch has h<en cur ~ b. re @-e
Al the gate % every station stand guards
with drawn revolvers There are - tick
cts II grown man tries % make his
way past he Is shot down. that Is al
There rad Keen talk az the IRE fEnt-
ers making 2 stand al rhe head ~ Central
Park. where Morrines.de Park makes
frebreak. Eastward. roar upon roar q
dynamite cuts sTath Two blocks vide
from the park 70 the East River
The destruction is useless Already. as
tire dust spouts VI from the dynam!tei
tenemenis. fire has broken ont q; 9Th
street. There IS another az 18Th street Tie
Museum % Art is burning
Blu, that Is nothing in the burning ~ the
city. As night falls the Are lears 20 The
west of the PARK and goes rearing south
ward Street after street is eaten up. on
Broadway. AZ the ate theatre hour ira,
was once its high noon strange red dsy
dswus Hotels theatres. restaurants. or
ces. cfumhle and sway No one knows row
many dead 90 down into the glowing cell
lars This night half America VI, not
sleep. waiting for the news from New York
and friends who are here
Morning. and the ere is AZ 3itn street
The wind is still gale Southwark. under
the smoke mountain tia, has hisA,r every
thing. again the dynamite il roarin. There
will he one last stand al Union squa-e
The Bronx is gone Harlem Is c-ne
Firth avenue and beautiful Riverside Drive
are piles OF smoking stone The immense
Eas, Side. packed with humanity from end
% end. has been swept for three four'hs Of
its length. But further south the fremen
viii have water With which 70 make their
night All night the great pumps at the
high pressure stations have been rhrobbinr
Firemen. soldiers and volunteers b. thou
sands are stationed on The rofs clear across
the city. The lower East Side. the mos,
populous Dir 81 American soil. and TIE i'm
mense wholesale district. where more
property is stored than i gathered a, anv
other spot In the world lie nearest the
flames
They bring the dynamite by wagonloads
Thousands OF toiling men pile il into nlsoa
in cellars and courts. with A thunder .,
explosion 1; cuts its path across IN. CITY.
following the boundary Of the high pressure
district. North OF I'D street three blocks
are cleared With dynamite from the North
River 10 Broadway and Madison sousya
Then vast trench Is opened with the sane
great tool from Madison SQUARE straight
through TO Union Square. They natA opa
open park. with heaps az ruins instead az
mower meas You can stand In Union
square and see Martins and the chasm OF
Madison avenue and the Metropoli,an
Building. not the tower only. I'm, The whole
white bulk Of IL. staring across the ruins.
where a dozen streams from the high press
ure system are soaking down the splin,ered
wood With sal, water.
lheh eastward goes the dynamite breach
alohs litn street Tammany Hall. the
herman Theatre. the old Academy the
e'eNa'eo structure. churches. banks. tene-
tnents' stores-everything rocks before the
blasts and goes down in haans
Inc hre rush4s on. The Fifth avenue sky
"N'"se's are pillars Of flames. The Waldor: