New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-11
sauy Jump to Safety After Boil
ss Of English Tank Steamer
Blow Up at Standard
Works in BayOnne.
opE DEAD, ONE MISSING
Names Spread to Piers and
Tsssr Becomes Liquid Fire,
Lighting Rescue Work as
Captain, Wife, Daugh-
ters and Grew Go
Overheard.

An explosion on the British tank
.,.,u,es Dunhoime set the ship on fire
:. .he lay In her slip at the Standard
oa Companys piers at Bayonne last
,,,ht Shs and the bark Concordia
,ws destroyed and Pier 3 was burned
nm Pier NO. was almost total loss
..,,x this morning. The loss was esti-
MATED at from 100000 to $750,OoO.
Tns explosion ripped on the upper
sse az the Dunholme, and the crew, to-.
sether with the captain, his wife and
tro daughters, leaped overheard 10
avs themselves They were picked up
later. One watchman at the pier is
r,,sssnS and the ships carpenter was
burned to death.
FIRE spread to three other ships, the
s.xsIepe, the Hohenzollern and the
Narasansett, but these were saved
with comparatively little damage.
There was no time to tow the Dun
hoIrns or the Concordia out from their
nlers but the other ships were pulled
out into New York Bay.
Ocean of Liquid Fire.
Explosion after explosion occurred on
board the ships, and the burning oil
shot into the air and fell into the sea.
Soon the ocean was on fire at the piers.
The company fought the fire with its
cwn department, aided by about three
thousand employees. The freboat
Zophar Mills responded from Staten
Island and helped in the work. The
New Yorker reached the scene soon
snerward. Ten company tugs we're
busy FOR hours. Some of them towed
the steamer Elcelane into the Bay.
only one man, so far as known, vas
taken 10 the hospital. He is Peter
Lennon. of No. 2O7 Avenue z, Bayonne.
lie is badly burned about the hanis
and face He was a foreman on one Of
the oarges. and jumped overheard. His
condition Is not considered serious.(
Cause Of Explosion Unknown.
Just what caused the explosion is not
known. There were about twenty-five
thousand barrels of gasolene on the
steamer at the time. and the noise Of
the explosion was deafening. The Dun
holme burned so rapidly and so fiercely
that there was no time TO get her
away from Pier 3. and the pier was set
ahre and soon burned to the waters
edge, the flames spreading to the ad-
Joining Pier t.
Thousands of persons living in Bay
onne hurried to Constable Hook, where
the works of the Standard OIL Com
pany are situated, when they heard the
tremendous explosion but they were
unable to get close to the fire, the gates
were closed and no one was admitted
within the place. They had a good
view Of the fire. however. as the flames
rose high in the air and lit up the skies
for miles around. The residents on
Staten Island. opposite the fire, had a
much better view OF the flames, how
ever, as the two burning vessels were
towed out on the fats in the Kills
Ths Bayonne firemen were not called
upon al all 10 aid In the work Of fight
ing tie flames, as the company consid-
ersd that its own fire-fghting apparatus,
With ten powerful tugs and those
waich were summoned to the scene,
we're ample 70 hght the flames.
The Dunholme was 10 sail for Stock
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