The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-02-02

| Fully hundred windows on all sides OF
the plant were demolished and many OF
the Polish women thought that an at
tempt had been made to blow up the big
building. They ran through the streets
crying and praying
| Somebody sent in an alarm at the
engine house fire box and n few minute es
later an excited man rang n box in lower
Montgomery street. causing much con-
fusion. The fire engines went To the
sugar house, but couldn't get across the
gap.
All the buildings in the lower part
OF the city were shaken to their foun-
dations and pictures and calendars fopped
! on walls. The occupants OF most of
the larger office buildings. including
the Lincoln Trust and Union Trust in
Montgomery street and the Commercial
Trust in Exchange place. thought that
the boilers in their own particular build
ing had blown up.
Postmaster y. Farmer Wanser was
seated at his desk in the post Office on
washington and Sussex streets when he
heard roar and all the fixtures in the
building ratified. Mail was strewn around
and the clerks rushed about.
The boiler has burst" shouted Gen
Wanser. who is commander of the Fourth
Regiment. National Guard OF New Jersey
wow boys, don't get excited. Take it
easy and congratulate Yourselves that
you are still alive"
The Generals speech followed the
sklmmiing of an eight pound pair Of scales
through the air just over the head of
Edward I arrol'. assistant superintendent
of carriers Evcrybod- ducked ay-
ing things in the various departments.
and when the General satisfied himself
that nobody had been hurt he resumed
his task of signing the paw checks
Th" Board of Fire Underwriters o.
Hudson county was N session in the
rooms of the Board of Trade IN the Hud-
son County Bank Building. at ior and
N'Ehingi on streets, and the explosion
caused a shower of dust TO fall from the
walls and ceiling The board informally
1dlourn"d without transactinE any more
business
Every pane of glass in IN" United
States Express tompanv's Office az ~
Montgomery street was blown oil; Tho
Jersey CITY Printing Company's plant
lost several windows on its FORK street
sid. and the rear of the building was
mad. To bulge oiit
Nbraham LibowtH, pawnhrokcr ~
3S' Mont Gom"rv street. was sound aseer
on lanl" auJOlnlNE MS SNOW Wlnuo"
The glass was forced IN and the top of
he table was ripped Off. Libowlth woke
up on the floor surprised bu; unhurr
From all parts of IN" city came reports
ma night workcA- who -l""p in tn" day
time and the Sick wore thrown from
ther beds br In. force of IN" explosion
Many pedestrians were cut hv flying
glass They were trnhtad in drug stores
and by physicians, and their injuries
wc-. not reported 10 ;h" polio" Several
teams OF horses in various parts of tho
city were frightened by the explosion
and ran away without serious Conse-
quonces
All the afternoon ard evening men
wor" AZ work boarding up the fronts OF
stores and gla2iers were raSlng in money
for putting in pancs of glass in the resi-
dence part of town.
Capt Charles J Carroll superintendent
Of he Pennsylvania Railroad ferries. had
been away from his desk in his Office III
| Exchange place five minutes when the
front widnow tipped into a thousand
pieces and fell into his chair.
j was upstairs said the Captain. and
had been at my deak would have been
killed
r y Reynolds master carpenter of the
! Pennsylvanis Railroad was caught in a
shower of glass on an upper floor of the
railway Office building ~ the terminal but
! escaped injury
'' 'N t'lpSlpn WAS inc CAUSE last nlSHt
Of the wreck of two story frame
house at Carteret. badly injuring two
child Arthur Hemingway, 3, years
old. coffee broker of Manhattan.
vino lives ON Central avenue. Carteret
and his wit. Alice. - years old. was in
lur"d internally and also received a
severe scalp wound Their baby. Charles.
had his nose fractured and was also in
lured internally A. the time Of III" ex-
plos on the shock was 81 severe that the
windows were broken and III" housc
shaken almost from ifs foundations
Tn" family wis al supper last night in
IN" dining room when the whole ceiling
and part of the flooring ahDv" the dining
room fell Neighhors who heard the
crash rushed to the family's aid and
! carried tho injured To place OF safety
The injured We're attended by DIR. johnson
of Carteret
The house was 30 badly damaged that
, II was not fl for occupancy,
/ Relieving that one or more Of the big
! Standard Oil tanks AT Constable Hook
! had blown up. hundreds of residents of
I Bayonne rushed to the street and women
whose husbands are employed at the oil
| plant hurried TO the works. School chill
dren on their way home to lunch were
! frightened. on. girl named Sadie Wilson
| was thrown from her feet by the shock
but was not injured In scores of houses
windows were broken and ornaments and
dishes were jostled from sideboards,
mantels and tables
Coroner James NJ Houghton Of Jersey
City last night empanelled the following
| jury TO sit at the inquest. the date of
which has not been fixed James Cullen
foreman: Ebe Croufet, Daniel Murphy,
William Downs, william Whitney and
John Smart. The jurors went to Hughes =
morgue and viewed the bodies They
will visit the scene of the explosion AZ
Communipaw to-day.
" iLDO AND CROkER co OVER.
Fire Commissioner Comments On the
CarelcSs HANDLING Of ExnlOsiycs