The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-02-08
GREAT SHOCK
Cargo o. Dynamite E12lodes With Awful
Results Wednesday.
MANY PEOPLE KILLED
,Iany More Arc injured by the
Shock Which is Felt Forty-Five
Miles Away-Ncw York Shaken
From Street Level to Top Of the
Highest Building.

Highest Building.
a cargo OF dynamite IN traas!,
| :-orl 2 freight car 10 the hold OF Z
lighter mco.ej al pier No. Com
uun!paw. " J.. let &c shortly after
noon TUESDAY. $50 yards south OF me
{; ;Je-sey Cry terminal OF the Central
Railroad 0, Ne~ Jersey and il the
widespread ruin that followed seven
men are known 20 have been killed.
seven n.cre are missing. hundreds
ee-e wounded and varying reports
leave from 10 20 % more unaccouat-
ed FOR.
Thirty seems to be :. conservative
estimate OF the dea,: and prop rtv
damage will hardly fall below $50
900. The cause OF the explosion is
yariously attributed TO the dropping
Of case Of dynamite and TO boiler
explosion on boat.
The direct cause probably never
will be known.
Terminal Wrecked.
The Jersey Central terminal vas
wrecked: .hree ferry boats in the
slips we're torn and spiintered: lower
Manhattan. across the river. was
shaken from the street level 20 the
TOP OF the Singer tower: severe dam
age was done in Brooklyn and Staten
Island. and 10 the immigrant deten-
ton station on Ellis Island: the
shock was felt at Anityville. Long
Island. 35 miles distant. and IN New
Jersey at Long Branch. As miles
away. The damage Is so widely scat
tered that 1t IS impossible as yet TO
estimate more than roughly. but in
Manhattan alone it IS placed 1T 81 oo.-
600. on Ellis Island at from slo.-
| 900 to $4,000 and in all three
quarters OF million appears to be =
'.i- csti.sa;c.
Lighter Vanished.
The lighter r.c.i"ing the dyna-
mite. tie Ea;heri2e w. owned Ay
lanes Healing OF Jersey City. van-
,shesi utterly with her crew Of seven
men. including the master. Edward
~-~v-r. Alongside was the lighter
Whistler. which was so badly shat
tered that she sank with her crew
Of two. while the Swedish See!
ba-kent:ne lnerid w"s stripped Of her
rigging and the lives OF two deck
lands aboard were snuIeG out. FraS-
:1cn;s o! cne mans head were found
swinging high on tangled piece o:
rope.
We're nloadins Dynamite.
The Katherine w. was tied 20 the
outer end CT the pier. and crew o.
dock hands was unloading con-
sfynn.ens OF 50-pound boxes from two
t.e;gh, cars 70 the lighter when the
crash came. One re?or; was 20 the
effect tha, the explosive was Goa
signed 10 contractors up the river
sor blasting along the Palisades. al
o.he! that t Was bound eor Hahana.
With the explosion the Katherine
w. simply Disappeared: not solinf-
- O. he- has been found. Only the
Wh;stler's aagpole has been !ouL".
The ,-e!gh: car wen; up IN prS
OF dust. On the rear deck OF the
harkea;ine laZrid were !or:i pal!
.; :roa trucks that were also torn
20 bits.
Another Car Shaken.
Fifty yards back stood another car
nr dynamite. The explosion rin1eI
he roof os i; and BROKE in the doo's.
bu; the dynamite itself did not e1-
plode.
On board the ;nxr!d the steel -.:Z-
-enmast snapped OF above the lover
y,cd. and the tangled wreckase came
! ,:mb!!n@ ABOUT the decks. Every
hing ahaft the mizzenmas; was lev
led fat hut the steel plates o! the
.,ull held s.ouily and showed not
.ven mark.
For Ino lee, Tho pie--end itself
vas utterly demolished.
All about were strange freaks or
he explosion.
Glass Roof Co!iapscs-
N tho ;ra;r shed of the terminal.
! o.a-iv ;ho whole southern e>Hr:S"-e
# the glass roof collapsed. shower
aS the passengers ~i'h broken
lass. One man was struck eZ
H6-2ouna ,raGuncu; aEi so se:e-eiy
~; that he died An engineer N 3
shifting locomotive was blown from
mis- cab and died G, fractured
skull. 4 inS6oat captain was hurried
from his whe, l:!ouse and fsh"a ou'
>. the water ! > minutes later.
Inside the passenger station th"re
vas dac:a@e visible e.e-:where.
tn" doors we're Uttered with arok-
IN glass. Windows fronting on the
inner ccf.rt hal been sack"d from
he frames. sashes and all.
Clock Hands Torn on
! States wer" torn from the roo! an'l
.ha hands Of the ferry house CLOCK
w,r. torn OF.
! Jarles Maycw. cashier in the STA
ton restaurant. vas eating luncheon