New-York tribune., 1922-08-14

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stopped the fiew Of blood from the
wound. The baby became weak and
then unconscious.
Children Chief Sufferers
''Mosf of the injured were women and
ehildrn, and there were certainly at
least twenty of them. / think so many
of the chldren were injured because
they are always at the windows in the
trains, and so caught the heaviest bar
rage of the broken glass.
81 saw another woman with her arm
gashed open, so that IL seemed to me
that her hand was almost severed.
Passengers who were injured in lesser
degree were trying 10 help her and the
others who had severe wounds. None
of the men were injured, in fact there
were few men on the train. except IN
the smoking car, which also had its
quota Of women because the train was
crowded and every available seat was
taken.
q do not think there is any doubt
that bombs were thrown. Passengers
in the third coach told me that the
bomb exploded against the side with
terrific noise and a yellow glare, and
that the coach seemed to rock on the
rails.
II made a closer examination OF the
coach when the train pulled into Wee
hawken, and ] found that every window
In the car had been ripped out as well
az windows in two of the other cass IN
the train. / saw also that the forward
step and part of the vestibule on the
third car had been ripped away, so tnat
| think that the bomb struck there ana
exerted its main ripping effect there:
If it had sthuck right into the SIDE OF
the car I think that 1T would nave
crashed through the windows and pos.
giblv Killed many women and children.
See Third Bomb Explode
ave leaped from our seats. at the
sound of the explosion, then heard
second and lighter report. Some OF Us
ran to the rear of the train and we saw
the tird bomb explode about 100 feet
down the tracks. This leads me TO pc
lieve that the missiles were hurried ana
NOT placed on the tracks to be exploded
by the wheels.
"a few minutes later brakeman
ran back through the train and toid us
that several women and children nad
been injured by bomb. AS the {ralh
halted he leaped of and ran back TO
;nvesticate. / ran on forward through
The train. to see il l could assist any
of the injured there"
Mr.. Dieney said that his seatmate
IN +he smoker was a man who said he
urss AN expert in explosives and as.
aurad him that the smell was that OF
exploded dynamite. The train at the
time was near the big Beimont,Cut-
nee uuarries, where dynamite might pe
obtained by thief.
Explosive Easily obtainable.
"That man told me-" said Mr.. Dig,
new. "that he thought from the smeii
az the smoke and the noise OF the re-
mort. that dynamite had been USED IN
The bombs and he told me that NOT
more than half a mile away was
stone quarry, called the belmont guar
ry. where men might nave stoleh oyna-
mite for their attack. .,.,
saw the explosion of the thlrd
ho-.b from the rear of the smoker. and
7 saw the brakeman come running BACK
He had not been able TO find out any
thinp about the bomb, nor had ne seen
INV of the men who had thrown them.
.sAIl of US agreed with the dynamite
xxnert that the bombs were thrown ana
we're not placed on tho tracks. One
reason for this theory is that the ponap
hit the third car If it had been placed
~ +ho tracks the locomotive would
bave exploded it. The bombs were GER
+ainlv thrown. Our car was filled with
an acrid, gray smoke, which was dis
tinguishable from the tobacco smoke III
the coach"
Trestle in Remote Place
The trestle where the explosion took
Mace is remote from dwellings on the
edge of the Hackensack marshes. Inc
Granton yards of the West Shore
where the roads strike breakers are
housed, border the through tracks ana
the quarters Of the strike breakers are
within about 200 yards of the trestle.
There have been several attacks on
men thought to be strike breakers IN
the vicinity, but the expanse OF unln-
habited territory is so extensive that
the police and railroad detectives have
found il impossible to guard all polnts.
This North Bergen police said thaS
two automobiles had been seen station
ary in the vicinity of the trestie at
about the time of the explosion.
The police of all northern New Jer-
sew communities have been warned to
he on the lookout for the automobiles
believed to have been used by the
dynamiters, and an extra force of rail
road detectives was sent to the yards
to hunt for clews. The state police
also sent men.