The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-02
T 70 perty L oss w ill.
Reach Nearly Mil
lion Dollars.
IS H 0 G K is f Ell e
FOR MANY MILES.
Lower Manhattan Shaken From
Street Level to Top Of Singer
Tower-Vessel Carrying
Cargo Of Explosive Simply
Vanishes From Sight,
Not a Splinter Found.

L q. e
New York, February Ii cnrEo OF
dynamite in trnnsit from n freight car
to the hold Of II lighter n,Oureh at pier
40. :, Comnunlpaw, n. j., let 20 ut r
just minute past / O'Clock to-dny IS
! log cards souti, of the Jersey City
Terminal Of tic Ccnirni i,uiIroad ofS5
| New Jersey, and In the widespread ruin II
that followed seTcm men la.c Known to Il
hhEe been killed, seven more are miss
ms, hundreds we're wounded md vary
ing reports icu:c from, siftccn 10 t,yeu-
! L! more unaccountcu for. @
/ thirty seems 10 be IL conservative u
/ estimate OF the dead. aud property
namage will hardly fall below $3.50. uOV. II
ne cause of the explosion is various II
~ attributed 20 the dropping az Il case
Of dynamite and to Boiler explosion
on a boat. Just what was the direct
cause probably never will be known 6
Damage Widespread.
! The Jersey Central terminal was II
wrecked three ferryboats in the slips
We're torn and splintered lover Man
| haitian. across the river was shaken
! from the street level to the top Of the
/ singer tower; severe dana sc was done
IN Brooklyn ad station Island. and to
! the Immigrant detention station on ii
| Ellis Island, the shock was felt att
Amityville. Long Island, thirty five
! miles distant, and in New Jersey at
t Long Branch. forty five miles :.yay. .iTha
damage is SO widely scattered that It
! is Impossible as yet to rlore than
I roughly estimate it. but IN Manhattan
alone II is placed at 500, du0. on Ellis
Island at from $4,000 TO S25, 900. and
IN all. $4,000 appears 20 be a fair
estimate. 's
The lighter receiving the avnam,te !.
the Katherine w. owned is James (
| Healing, of Jersey City. vanished Ut
| terry with her crew of seven men. In II
GLIDING the master, Edward Trayer.3
Alongside was the lighter Whistler,
winch was SO badly shattered that she
sank With her crew Of two While the
Swedish steel barkentine Ingrid was
stripped Of her rigging and the lives
| OF two deck hands aboard snuffed out III
Fragments of one mans head was
found swinging high on tangled
| piece OF rope
outer end or the pier. ana a crew OF
/ dock hands was unloading a conslgn- 4
/ ment Of fifty pound boxes from two
| freight cars to the lighter when thn
crash came. One report was to tn.
enect that the explosive was consIgn
/ ed to contractors up the river for
blasting along the Palisad es; another
that 1t was bound for Havana
Simply Disappears.
with the explosion the Katherine
| ". simply disappeared; noe a splinter
! or her has been found. Only the Whist 1
| lers nag pole has been found. Tbs
Ireight car went up in a puff OF dust,
On the rear deck Of the barleentine IN
grid We're found pair OF iron trucks
that were also torn to bits. Fifty
yards back stood another car Of dyna -N
mite. The explosion ripped the roof
/ Off 1t and broke in the doors butjthe
dynamite itself did not explode on
/ "a u T,,rT ruiz Z : y .
| snapped off above the lower yard, and
! the tangled wreckage came tumb ng
about the decks EVERYTHING abafts
| the nizzenmast was leveIled nat. but
the steel plates of the hull held stout
| ~ and showed not even u mark.
For 100 feet the pier end Itself was
1! utterly demolished. The planking5
| seemed, 10 have been ground to powder;
/ steel eonao!a car on the southern
| most track Looked like an old hat thatg
! had been rsed by boys for football All +
ahout were strange freaks Of the ex-f
In the train shed Of the termina,
/ nearly the whole southern exposure OF
4 the glass roof collapsed. showering tho
/ passengers With broken glass One
fragment ard so severely cut that hs@
! died An engineer in a shunting loco
m 1i was blown from his cab and
| died OF a fractured skull. A tughoat
I captain was hurled from his wheel
house and fsned out Of the water ff-ss
4, .'th !HiilHtcS laleF. swimming about
the southern side OF she demolished
! pier. ~ i8
was vise cveryWhers Ths dam onys
were l!tterel with broken glass Win
/ dows frontinG on the inner court had
! been sucle from the frames, sashes 4.
ana all Slotes were torn from tho
roof The hands or the ferry house &
clock We're tern on. There were no
sashes in most Of the windows and no
1 glass in those that had sashes
! Terror = Acute. ~
James Mathew, cashier in the sta
| ton restaurant was eating luncheon
/ when the explosion came. S
There WAS everywhere the crash of
| OF frightened feet Children whim.
| pered and women shrieked. TIE sen-
J sation OF ia.ror was acute IT scenes 4
as Il The earth were being torn to
| TWO fertvboats OF the Central Rail-
/ road OF Ecw Jersey. the Sonereiiie and 81
/ the flainNeld, lay in the tcrminal slips. ~
! edsing .iato the. river. All Of them,
careened Violently. ana all Of them
| were show.red With their own glass;
J Many Of the wounded passengers in 9
! these boats came to New York FOR
| treatment at the hospitals. 81
/ IN New York the terror %as inten-
SIZED hy uncertainty. For half an hour
where 1t hal happened e
Literally ACRES Of glass were broken.
| Eighteen windows werc smashed IN II. 4
| Standard oil ComnanN building In z
! Trinity CisuTrh 81 yatuabic stained sriass q
| window WAS strcwea IN the aEslea.
Strange 10 SAY, iicofbuiidings on tho h
| water front streets in New York were
! mr. ma rcd y, w. AH.