The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-02-04
GREAT SHOCK
Cargo sf Dynamite Esplodss viii "a ;
Results "Wednesday. :
MANY PEOPLE KILLED
nyasny n1ore 8 Are 4 6 injured By the

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Many any B More Are injured by 1d' the 3.
rs Shock Which 5s Felt Forty-Five
81 s5S Miles Away.-ss1 ss1ew York Shaken,
&: From l.tdn Street Level to Top Of the
highest Building. :.
.s5 A cargo Of dynamite in transit.
from a freight ctr to che hold Of q
lighter moored at pier No. =, Com
snn1lunipaw, N: $J.,g let go shortly after
noon Tuesda 1 SO yards south Of the
Jersey City terminal Of the Central
Railroad \ OF New jersey and in the
widespread ruin that followed seven.
men are known to have been Killed,
seven more are missing, hundreds
were wounded and varying reports
leave from s157tc 20 more unaccount- l1
led for. .l7 .ss s,.,.s
Thirty seems to be a conservative
estimate OF the dead and property
Z damage will hardly fall below $780,
Z 900: S The Gauss Of the explosion Is
yariously attributed to the dropping
/ OF; a case Of dynamite and to boiler
explosion on a, BOAT. Ss 5SsIs. t.jss
The direct cause probably never
twill be known. "a, i$ "a: {.5i5
& !.31s Terminal Wrecked.
S sSt ssThe Jersey Central terminal was
{ wrecked ;t5 three, ferry boats In the
slips were torn and splintered; lower
Manhattan, across the river, was
shaken from the street level to the
{ top5of the Singer tower; severe dam dam
age was done ia Brooklyn and Staten
Island; and to the immigrant deten-l
tioa station On Ellis Island; the
shock was felt at Amityville, Long
{ Island, S5 miles distant, and in New.
Jersey atsLong Branch, As miles
away. The damage is so widely scat ca :.
tered that it is impossible as yet to
estimate more than roughly, but In
Manhattan aione tits placed at 81 o.
900, on Ellis Island at from 5 ~
OOC to s25,cO0 and In all three
quarters of million appears to be 3. a
fair estimate. .y & ) b
!, 4, ~ Lighter Vanished. tl5
The lighter receiving the dynlaa-- :
raite; 5the katherine W., owned BY
{ James Healing of Jersey City, van val. :
4 $fshed utterly with; her crew Of seven
&, men, including the master, Edward ART
Traver. Alongside was the lighter:
whistler, which was -soz badly shat
tered that: sue sank with her crew
Sof two, while the Swedish steel
barkentine lngrid was stripped OF her
rigging and the lives Of Two deck
u hands aboard were snuffed out. FragT
nents Of ona mans head were found
swinging hith on a tangled piece OF !;
rope. 8 s5=,s :2,. 5i$:g Ri
Were Unloading Dynamite.
The Katherine ". was tied to the
,, o,uter3 end o!s.;the pier, and crew OF
I dock hands was unloading con-
alignment OF 5 50-pound boxes frona two
freight cars to the lighter when the
crash came. One report was to the
effect that the explosive was con-
signed to contractors up the river,
1 for blasting along the Palisades, an
other that It was bound for Habana.
with the, explosion the Katherine
W. simply disappeared; not splint"
I er of her has been found. Only the
sWhistler's Aagpole has been found.
The freight car went up in pun
fof dust. On the rear deck OF tho
barkentine Ingrid were found pair
& of iron trucks that were also torn
5 to bits.
Another Car Shaken.
Fifty yards back stood another car
OF. dynamite. The explosion ripped
the rocf o.; it and broke in the doors,
but the dynamite itself did not ex-
plode.
rs on board the Ingrid the steel miz-
zenmast snapped off above the lower
yard, and the tangled wreckage came
tumbling about the decks. Every
thing abaft the mizzenmast was lev
eled fiat but the steel plates of the
hull hclc. stoutly and showed not
even. mark.
For 100 feet the pier-end itself
was utterly demolished.
All about were strange freaks of
the eSplos sion.
Glass Roof Collapses.
In the train shed Of the terminal,
nearly the whole southern exposure
Of the glass roof collapsed, shower
ing the passengers with broken
glass. One man was struck by
20-pouna fragment and so severely
cut that he died. An engineer in
shifting locomotive was blown from
his cab and died of fractured
skull. A tugboat captain was hurled
from his wheelhouse and fished out
of the water Is minutes later.
Inside the passenger station there
was damage visible everywhere.
The floors were Uttered with brok-
en- glass. Windows fronting On the
inner court had been sucked from
the frames, sashes and all.
Clock Hands Torn on.
States were torn from the roof and
the hands Of the ferry house clock
were torn of.
James Mayew, cashier in the sta