The gold leaf., 1911-02-09
TERRIFIC BLAST
ROCKS NEW YORK
Dynamite Cargo Blows Up at
Jersey Central Dock.
30 DEAD; HUNDREDS HURT

Buildings Shaken, Windows Shattered
and People Thought 1t Was an
Earthouake, and Panic Almost Fol-
lowed.
Forty tons Of dynamite exploded on
the Jersey water front in the middle
OF 100000 people and 100000 things
happened.
RadiaGnS from the North river END
Of pier No I in the Jersey Centrals
freight terminal in COmmunipaw, the
conclusion rocked Manhattan from
end to end. Jersey trembled for many
miles back Of the marshes. Away out
in Long Island people started up IN
trembling buildings and thought 1t
was an earthquake. Everywhere the
skyscrapers yibrated and spilled win
dow glass into the streets.
In the immediate neighborhood OF
the explosion the destruction was so
complete that it was next to impos-
siblc to determine the number of the
killed or the precise reason a car
load Of dynamite and quantity stored
in two lighters let go. 1t is probable
that thirty men lost their lives and
that twenty-five of these we're blown
to pieces near the pier end.
1t was several minutes before the
railroad men in the terminal under
stood exactly what had occurred. At
ter they had climbed out of the heap
ed up debris, their first business was
to care for the commuters, who were
running about aimlessly, with blood
running from the glass cuts on cheek
and head, and for their own men who
had been injured in the upheayal of
glass and iron and splinters.
Trainmen looked out toward the
end Of pier No. and saw that 200
feet of the solid pile set pier had
been bitten off short, so that the
splintered edges of beams projected
over black water; that a whole car
of dynamite had vanished along with
:he pier end; that another car con-
tanning cases of dynamite In sticks
had been ripped to pieces, spilling dy-
Mantle over the debris; that two big
lighters, the Katherine w. and the
Whistler, that had been taking on dy-
Mantle for the Dupont De Nemours
company, were gone, and that the
ships and lighters and barges laid up
by the piers were piled with wreck
age, and that wherever their eyes
travelled along the water front of the
terminal there was nothing but a mass
of wreckage. There was not a spark
of fire anywhere.
All the way up through the terminal
from the riverside men were lying
against box cars or sitting somewhere
in the wreckage feeling out their own
injuries. Nineteen out of twenty, pos
stbly, were bleeding from gashes in
the face or head caused by shower
of splintered glass from far on high
Some were bruised from being hurled
against cars or thrown head first from
their chairs in the pier offices or had
been knocked down by driven planks
Up in the train shed aud waiting
room Of the glass denuded Jersey Cen
trail depot theer was a wild scene of
pandemonium. Imagine a steady rain
Of broken glass over an acre of ground
for perhaps half a minute and imag-
inc 300 people running for cover over
that acre, and you will have a faint
idea OF what took place in the depot.
There were fragments of bodies
here and there, leg and an arm high
UP in the rigging of the Norwegian
ship lngrid; a dead man in the hold
OF the same ship; shattered torso
among the coal piles on pier No. 9
But there were twenty-five men
squarely at the center of the explo-
sion. and not a trace of them save
three mangled bodies were found
Three-Quarters of a mile away the
captain OF the tugEOat Tuohy was
blown through his pilot house and
killed, which made up the number of
dead positively known as four
There was hardly any dUub, in the
minds of the railroad men a.tcr they
had talked with the barge Ek.prers
and the dock workmen who la bceH
less than 200 yards away from t. e Iy-
Mantle car, some OF them, that all Il
the twenty-five men had been de-
stroyed.
The violence of the explosion cloud
ed its cause. The men who might
have told straight story were dead
and the dynamite had taken care of
other evidence. Theories and stories
passed wildly all through the yards
The railroad men agreed that there
was preliminary explosion either of
boiler or of escaped gasoline on
board the lighter Whistler or on the
lighter Katherine Wan explosion
which instantly set off the dynamite
loaded in their holds and still on
board one box car.
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