Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-08-03

Will not interfere with the operation
of business"
ESTIMATE OF LOSSES
Edmund l.. Mackenzie, president Of
the National Storage company. declsr-
ed tonight that the plant of his con-
Germ valued at s7,O0O,0Oo, while
the contents of the warehouses prob
ably were worth s10,0O00o0 One of
the warehouses which remains intact.
he said, is filled with chemicals Be
sides the great quantity of raw sugar
burned, there We're $4,000 bales of to-
bacco, much mating from China and
; Japan and other merchandise The
loss to his company and the railroad,
Mr. Mackenzie asserted, was partly
covered by insurance.
Mr. Mackenzie said it would be i'm
possible at this time to tell what loss
of life there had been. The Jersey
City police cooperating with the New
York authorities, were busily engaged
tonight in search
! The body of an unidentified Young
, man was recovered from the water of
! the Lehigh Valley pier. A child in
| Jersey City, according to the police.
| died from shock following the first of
the explosions. Many men told thrill
| ing stories of having been blown hun
drcds of feet over land and water
MANY STRAINED VICTIMS
Most of the sixty or more injured
taken to Jersey City hospitals were
struck by shrapnel. falling glass or
debris. Nearly all were in the rail
road yards or on craft moored near
~ tall
were a few women and children whose
| homes We're on barges. Many other
persons in New York and New Jersey
cities suffered minor injuries from
broken glass
STATUE OF LIBERTY DAMAGED.
Every window in the pedestal of the
Statue of Liberty, on Bedloe's Island, OPP
posite Black Tom, was broken, and the
main door, made Of iron and weighing
nearly ton, was blown off its hinges.
The statue itself. however. was not dam
aged. except from the rain of shrapnel
which despatched it a new warehouse on
the island and the quarters of the army
officers and sixty-seven soldiers who
guard the statue were badly damag ed A
number OF the men, as we'll as several
women, wives of the officers. were cut
by flying glass. but none seriously.
LIBERTY LIGHT STILL SHINES,
Although the plant which furnished
power for Bedloe's island was shaken and
: partly put out of commission, the famous
Light Of Liberty burned steadily
: throughout the hours Of confusion fam
. ing high above the pail of smoke from the
r fire which ragged nearby.
Early reports of damage to the build
? ings on Ellis island Were exaggerated. &C
= cording to Captain A. h. Fry, supervisnl
engineer Of federal buildings in New York
Captain Fry said the loss would not ex
coed $50, 90
Most of the damage AT the immigration
station was caused by the force of the ex
v plosion, which wrecked walks and build
?. ines and shattered windows and door
f ways.
CRAFT IN HARBOR DAMAGED.
" 1"o hre-swept, shrapnel-laden Graf
:, grounded on the southwest corner of tn
- island, which contains the contag iou
:, disease hospital. The medical staff re
= moved the 40 immigrants on the islam
= TO the Battery. Many small crafts, a
. We'll as several good sized steamers an
- sailing vessels were badly damaged
n Crews on the big ocean liners anchore
out in the harbor or locked along tn
n New Jersey and New York waterfronts
" declared that when the first two grea
n explosions occurred it appeared as
II their vessels were literally picked IL
n out OF the water and then hurled back
i EXPLOSION HEARD % NILES.
! All New York and cities within
- radius of twenty-five miles were awaker
,e ed by the explosions. Within an no,
ia 5000 telephone calls went over the polio
as wires from excited inquirers. Hundred
OF thousands of persons, many Of the
to scantily clad. ran excitedly through II
m streets. while automobiles, containr
IN policemen, fremen and others. dashs
ne madly about. Detectives were rushed
I'd Maiden lane, the home OF the jewell
IL industry, to guard against thieves.
st Scarcely an office building from Il
Battery to Fiftieth street escaped dar
s. age. More than a score of persons. a
ne cordng to the police We're injured
n Manhattan and Brooklyn from hyr
glass,
THOUSANDS PANIC STRICKEN.
,s. Thousands of persons in Jersey q
ar fled to the parks after the first exploso
is Panic stricken women wheeled baby ca
,at riages about, some of them praying n
;es others screaming as they went. \
his until after dawn to-day was the see
yes changed from one Of intense exciteme
lly and fear to calm and apparent Sc
,re assurance
not The fire on Black Tom island still rag
for tonight. The large railroad yards of t
ed Lehigh Valley, and the reclaim
nd meadow land for miles around Virtua
were covered with shrapnel shells, ma
ire of which had not exploded Thousar
as Of persons who hoCked there from n
the York. Jersey city and elsewhere, crowd
ew on tops of freight cars and watched HI
zap dreds of fremen at work amid the ru