The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-31
SEVERAL KILLED, MILLIONS DAMAGE WROUGHT
 BY MUNITIONS EXPLOSION AT PIER IN JERSEY

den, chief of the Lehigh Valley rail- road police. He was observed at the end f the burning pier just before the blow-up came. No one saw him after that, and it was assumed he la ad been killed. Patrolman James De- herty of the Ocean avenue station was somewhere east of the warehouses when sthe big explosion came. When found he was nude except for what remained of the waist band of his un- derdrawers.
 While he was being carried to an ambulance the second explosion oc- cured Hospital surgeons who at- tended him said they believed the shock of the second explosion had ruptured one of the big blood vessels of Doherty's heart. He was taken to the City Hospital, where it was said his chances of recovery were very slight
 William Stiffe, a barge \ Captain, took his wife and two boys to a place of safety and then went back to help fight the fire and get the cars away. He said he was between Piers and when the first explosion came. He was knocked down and his left shoul- der was badly wrenched. He went back to where he had left his family and could not find them. One of his boys had gone among the barges arousing folks and was between two sections of the wooden sheds when the explosion knocked him down.
 Two side walls fell in upon each other and the roof crashed over the boy. He was found pinned down by the legs, his head and body through a window. Calling loudly for help, he was rescued by policemen and by islanders. His legs were crushed. Stiffe later found his wife and other son.
 Two Other Policemen Hurt
 Patrolman James Hamill was within 100 feet of the warehouse when the wooden shed crashed down. He said he did not know how long he lay on the ground. He was picked up by Lieut.. Closterman and the two started out to look for Doherty. They found man who said he was Harry Steinberger and were helping him to his feet when the second explosion came Hamill noticed then that his left foot had swollen so that the shoe lace had burst He was sent home III the duIOII1OOllo OL CIllcl OL EOuCc Monahan with Patrolman Alexander Kachler, who had been knocked off the warehouse platform.
 Ambulances had come from the City Hospital, Christ's Hospital and St. Francis's Hospital. The surgeons and nurses attended many men who had been slightly injured and the nurses accomplished a great deal by %11o f,-;r and children on the barges and as- surfing them they were in no danger. They said that not a great many vic- tims of the explosion needed hospital treatment, but throughout yesterday many persons appeared at the hos pitals for treatment for minor wounds caused by falling glass.
 The damage in Jersey City was great. Hardly a store along Newark avenue, the main business thorough fare, escaped. Sidewalks were lit tered with broken glass. Central Ave nue and Ocean Avenue, the main thoroughfares on the Heights, were pictures of ruin. The street cleaners walks of glass and shopkeepers and 
 boarding up their show windows
 City Hall Badly Damaged
 The City Hall in Jersey City was badly damaged. While the glass cu- pola over the assembly chamber re- mained intact, the plate glass, plaster and iron grill work forming kind of inside sklight crashed down. The skylight and cupola over the rotun- da of the Hall, which is of similar construction and adjoins the assem- bly rooms, vas not injured. Half the ceiling in the First District Court room on the third floor fell and many windows in other parts of the building were broken.
 The new Jersey City Post Office at Washington and Montgomery streets had every window on the Washington Street side broken, while not pane in the building of the Union Trust Company directly across the street was even cracked. Practically every window in the Dickinson High, school, one of the finest buildings in the city, was smashed. Many of the beautiful stained glass windows of St. Patrick $ church were broken, while the win dows of the convent directly across the street were left intact.
 Gen. Wood Offers Aid | While the fire was at it's height and those who watched 1t were warned | that at any moment there might be | another explosion members of the staff of Major Gen. Leonard Wood commanding the Department of the East, arrived in Jersey City with of fers of assistance. Major Carl Hart mann, chief signal officer; Col. Will liam B. Horton, quartermaster, and Col. T. o. Donaldson, inspector gen. eral left Governors Island in Gen Woods 1aunch. when they believed women were taken to Governors Is. land and quartsred in, the homes o1 the officers. ,
 Then the launch made for Jersey City. Mayor Mark M. Pagan was found and told that under General Woods instructions assistance wa: being offered. Mayor Pagan referred the officers to Commissioner of Pub l lie Safety Hague and they went tt the scene of the fire. There they me Chief of Police Monahan and inform 1 plies were needed they would be fur nished immediately. They were tol( that the situation seemed well in hand but that if conditions should requiri it the Department of the East woult be appealed to.
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