Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-11
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Scarchl,ghts from the Pawnce were
played over the wrecked tanker and
over the water. Volunteer rescue crews
went on board and searched the wreck
age but after two hours none of the
missing had been found, nor had any
bodies been seen floating in the Della
ware.
Burglar alarms from banks and busi-
ness houses in Chester were set off by
the explosion.
At police headquarters in the Chester
City Hall. Captain Cummings was on
duty when the burglar alarms began
coming in. Quickly arnlng the police
men under him with sawed off shOtguns.
the captain and II squad Of policemen
ran into the street.
Big Windows Are Smashed
Opposite City Hall. on Fourth street,
the polio" saw plate glass windows in a
large furniture store had been smashed
Thinking dynamite had been used by
burglars to cause tho explosion they
heard, they surrounded the building and
began search for the supposed bandits.
iolns on TO Market street when no
burglar was found in the furniture
store. windows were seen to have been
smashed everywhere. 4 hasty inspoc-
tion on Market street showed that
thirty store windows had been ripped
out there and others were found to
have been smashed on side streets.
Meantime telephone calls to police
headquarters from all sections of the
city announced that windows in their
homes had been broken and many per.
sons reported that the force of the cx-
rlosion had thrown them from their
beds.
bo -,
who had been awakened Ivy the ex.
rlosion went to the shipyards. at the
foot of Morton street. in automobiles.
trolley cars and on foot
\ large crowd quickly gathered and
to prevent confusion in the yards un
Sr.. widow of the man for whom the
armed guard was thrown around the
yards and all persons excluded.
At the Chester Hospital. mil"
away from the yards. the explosion was
plainly heard and wakcned virtually all
patients in the institution. |. was also
heard in Clifton. Devon and at Sixty
ninth street.
J. \. Pew Explains
J. y. Pew. Jr.. chairman Of the
Beard Of Directors of the Sun Ship
building Company. said:
NY Ilc!l we're NoThlIlS oH u rusl'
job TO repair plates in an oil tank abaft
in the ship. There must have been gas
in tho tank when Schley. tho r!vctcr.
started 70 burn off tn" heads Of the
rivcts. The explosion followed.
The steamship i'aui Snoup was at
anchor 800 yards from the }. y, Pew.
Two heavy pieces Of steel crashed
through the side OF the vessel and jagged
bits # metal rnincd down on the deck.
Captain II. u. Campbell. in charge
ii III" drydock. said the flying steel
was like u harragr of bullets. The
drydock was Clipped in dozen places.
Three small children clun. TO Mrs.
, Srhley's skirts this morning as the
sobbing woman told how her husband
was ordered to report for work at mid
night.
Il was awakened by the explosion
, about : o'ciock,' sh" said. Some
thing told me that my husband was in
the explosion. II" had g"n" for his
pay at ) O'Clock last night and was told
TO return at midnight. lie didn't want
to go but he went.
The Schlry children are Vincent.
seven years old: Arthur. sin: GLADYS,
three. and Gertrude. six months old.
The woman broke down utterly us
the older children asked whrr" Daddy
was" NciShbors took the children and
tried to console the mother.