El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-31

6COntirued from page IL
Office building from the Battery to 5Oth
! street escaped damage More than
! score of persons, according TO the
/ police. were injured III Manhattan and
! Brooklyn from flying glass
ThOusands Scared In Jersey City.
Thousands of persons in Jersey City
fed TO the parks after the first eX-
DiOsiou. Panic stricken women wheeled
baby carriages about. some of them
! praying and others screaming Not IN
til after dawn was the scene changed
Then il vas with difficulty that rhe
police held the crowds back from the
scene OF the disaster.
shocks Felt in Five States
The detonations. which were felt in
five states. began with q continuous
rapid fire OF Shells the blowing up Of
great quantities of dynamite. trinitrO-
toluene and other high explosives. fol-
lowed by the bursting of thousands Of
shrapnel shell which literally show
cred the country and waters for many
miles around.
- Warehouses Destroyed
Fire rnat started soon after the first
great crash which spread death and
desolation in its wake. destroyed ; Of
the huge warehouses OF the National
Storage company on Black Tom Island.
IN which were stored merchandise val
ued at between $4,000 900 and $4,000
600. The flames. shooting into the
clouds were reflected against New
Nork's skyline OF towering office build
ingS, which only a few moments be
fore were shaken on their foundations
Miles of streets in Manhattan alone
were strewn with broken glass and
shattered signs
Fire Started Barge
Officials of the National Storage COM
psny and the Lehigh Valley railroad,
which also suffered heavily through
loss Of property declared that reports
TO them showed a fire started shortly
after 1 o'clock Sunday morning on a
barge belonging TO an Independent tow
ing company to transfer ammunition
supplies from the train to the barges
The barge. it was said, was taken
without the authority of either rail-
road or storage people The railroad
refused to discuss the name of the in
dependent towing company. saying il
was Investigating ito ascertain wheth-
er the barge purpOsely had been set on
lire as the result OF a plot"
81 Loaded Cars Destroyed.
A statement issued by the Lehigh
alley Railroad company after con-
ference between the heads OF all de-
partments here said
Thirteen brick storage warehouses
out of the 81 operated by the national f,
storage company and six houses owned !
by the storage company and leased to
me Lehigh VALLEY. We're destroyed Sew
era1 others OF the brick warehouses .
were badly DANA ged and only some mi |
nor damage was done to the Lehigh !
Valley grain elevators. In addition. az /;
lar as is known IS loaded cars were I
destroyed
According to the evidence obtained I
10y officels of the railroad company the
IRE started at 1905 Sunday morning in
a barge belonging to an independent
towing company which had been moored
alongside the railroad company's dock
expressly against orders.
II has not as vet been definitely de-
termlned what the money loss will be !
some 10000 tons of raw sugar, valued ,
at approximately s3.4O0,0OO is known TO
pc lost 1t is believed that the other
contents OF the warehouses DESTROYED !
VIII greatly increase this amount There
were no explosives stored in the ware !
houses Two of the cars DESTROYED were |
loaded with shrapnel which would NOT |
nave oeen source of danger but for