The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06

could 60 back to work next morning.
Sure the plantll be working In the morn
Ing" they said confidently. .,..
Chief Mise. HIS Family,
1t was a busy day for Chief MacDon-
aid OF the South Amboy police force, but
at Q o'clock In the afternoon he was still
smiling, though worried about his fam
lily. "rd give s25 II knew where they
were." he said, casing on the dismsn-
tied tables out in a park where the peo-
pie were fed before leaving for Perth
Amboy. Yes, ma'am, SIS. Well. I've
had a long day. When one of the ex-
plosions came, about s this morning,
was making eoffee for about 100 people
that hao gathered in q building over
there. and the big crash came. Well, II
knocked me over, and when got UP and
turned around to give what was left OF
the coffee to the folks. DANCED IL there
was one Of them there. They Just
melted.
well. went home 70 get my uniform
on-rd gone out without many clothes
being In hurry-and my family was
gone. and the back door lay on the din
ing room table. Oh, suppose my fam
lily Ii all right, but ia give s25' to see
them this minute"
= Sufec aS CnecI1ut as tne CnleI was m
old couple, man and wife. trudging along
from the "Y'' In Perth Amboy 10 the
Red Cross In search OF their daughter
from whom they had become separated.
Looking for the 'Y'7' piped the old man
to the reporter. who felt and no doubt
looked like several kinds of refugee.
IT'S right over there. And IL you see
my daughter Jennie viii you tell her
her father Is looking for her? Richard
II. Swain In my name. When the explo-
sion came, knocking everything in the
house all over US, we got out. and then
! says, Jennie I says you amt got
much on, better go back and get some
clothes Well. I ain't seen her since.
Nsast I'll find her .-+->-'A
Two little girls. dancing up and down
on the "Y" steps AZ gleefully as II the
explosion were huge Joke, were in
spasms Of laughter over the memory of
their older sisters scant attire when
they fed from their home.
"She didn't have anything on but a
blouse and a sweater and q pair Of draw
ers." they explained. but we guess
maybe she's got something more by now.
We don't know, cause we've lost her.
Like Retreat From Belgium.
Everywhere along the streets one was
hailed by anxious men asking II one had
seen their families. my name 10 Mel
top. and my homes on Raritan street."
said one tall workman in q collarless
shirt ''Or ! did have a home there;
now I'm on the street. II you should
see my wife and four children. would
you tell them I'm around here looking
for them?
My names C. Jones, and my wife
and one child are missing" chimed In
another. "Will you please tell them I'm
looking for them II you see themT' And
then they resumed their search, UP and
down. UP and down. or what use to ask
them to sit down or to eat, with that
anxiety? Like the retreat from Bel
GUM 1t was. and It brought home to the
workers as nothing else could what our
allies In Belgium and northern France
have suffered. -.
Soldiers marched up and down the
streets, lest something in the unpro-
tected stores should be stolen. but no.
body seemed to have any inclination to
steal. The police arrangements. indeed,
were admirable. But the people were, as
1t seemed to look at them, altogether too
da1ed and awed by this great calamity
to break the law In any way. .
One man, Oscar Rasmussen, came into
Hahway looking like Brigham Young,
ana he might have been suspected Of
wholesale wife snatching IL the women
hadn't been so evidently determined not
to lose him. He and his wite-his one
wife-and three children. were blown
out OF their beds In their home at b27
Rudseway avenue. South Amboy. They
walked and they walked, he said, head
ing for Railway as well as they could
and on the way the twenty women at
tached themselves to the party. They
slept on the porch Of a farmhouse dur.
ing the early morning. and late In the
afternoon reached Railway, where they
were taken care of.
Joseph Wagenhoffer was routed ou,
OF his bed by soldiers in time to re,
outside his house and see the explosion
He hadn't much English at his command
but he save a fairly eloquent description
OF the sight as knife Of flame, followed
by balls of smoke, from which tongues
OF fire continually darted."
Along with him trudged Mrs. Thomal
Layton, bruised from the plaster tina
had knocked her down when her home
two miles from the Hercules Powder
Works, was rocked by the blast.
Women Display Heroism,
Everywhere one heard tales Of mar
vellous heroism of the women workers
| some OF them mere girls. who had rushed
| to the call Of duty. There was Marjori,
Scales Of Tottenville, Staten Island, fo
| example. Marjorie Is q yeoman, ant
at $3.50 p. N. Friday she had her auto
! mobile out carrying the wounded ant
| the homeless. She worked straight OF
without stopping till 2 80 the next morn
ing among such scenes of horror as girl
in America don't often see. Once
| headless body fell at her side in tn,
road, but she drove straight on with he
carload OF the living.
DR.. Thomas Riley was in full charg
| OF the relief work. DR.. Frank Cuttin
| Vile Of the New York Hospital was |,
charge of the ambulances.
The Red Cross had eight centres II
Perth Amboy. and every public building
In the place was opened TO the refugees
while many families responded to tn,
\ appeal nailed up in prominent places
Take the refugees into your homes"
Commander D. Smiley. woman doc
tor saw that the scores OF Motor Corp,
girls went where they were most needed
Motor Corps girls were there from
everywhere II seemed. from every towr
in Jersey within many miles. from
Richmond county. from New York. Thei
/ cars patrolled the three roads leadtn,
out OF Amboy. and picked up all refu
| gees who had not hidden themselve
away behind woods and copses In thel
WEAKNESS and bewllderment. Man,
refugees were relayed on to- Woodbridge
whence Field Director Freeman sen
| them to towns where they could fine