New-York Tribune from New York, New York • 3

$15,000,000 LOSS FROM EXPLOSION IN WIDE RADIUS York. Jersey City. Suburhs and Harbor Isl Sttffer Damage. WINDOW BREAKAOE GREATEST ON RECORD arehouse Goods Valued at Dostroyrd Muni? tions Worth S7.ooo.oon Ovm. The havoe covered a radina Noa Voik.

ami manv York an ifferod that to almost Thr by tka New York City greater than 1 in the memory men. Jersey City was HV build rained a roken glass. shat and ce on Harbor harbor islands Staten Island. Bedloe'a Island. Ellia Island and Gov I Isiand shaken to their four.da twe main blasts.

suffercd daaaaga Indawa, walls ar.d foundations Not loncnailta affected these tha harbor. but a rain shrapnel from the ahells exploding Tom fell on them. Ellia Isl damage caused bv hargei laden with death-deahng cargoee drifting about the harbor. The heaviest loser net, the National ttoragi Company. Thirteen of its eigh? teen warehouscs on Black Tom and four pieri are ln ruins.

The dam? age aal mated by Edmund L. Mackenzie president of the company, v. unition supplies that bolng loadea on lifchters for trans -e to steamers in other parts of the bay, and wortn about $7,500,000. Kaw augar valued at aoout $4,000,000 was loel la the nre that followed the Mr. Mackenzie f.gured that tai loss in warehouse goods, in nj sugar, 24.000 barrels of to ehina ar.d mattmg and other mer would amount to about $35, possible last njfht to get an ita of the loss in railroad atock -tored in about eighty at occupied the trackage on leased from the National pany hy the Lehigh Valley ad.

ar? themselves are valued at ,000. The railroad company rerated a grain elevator in con th the terminal facilities itorage company. The II a total loss. iranee companies will suffer al rarely as the property own li Island. Most of the property is rerod hy pooled bj, sev.

rn'-. companies. The other in nurari are the plate glass in New York and Ofliciala of the leading hei ated to estimate the bnt it was stated con rnost of the $500,000 inage in N'ew York City was bn Ihe plate glass insurance is divided, among the Lloyds Plate BLAZING PIER AT THE HEIGHT OF MUNITIONS FIKF liphters, an.l wharvcs made yrstorda y's rnntlarzration one ti tho most Glass Company, the Mrtro j.ohtan Insurance Company an.l the Nrw Vork Platfl Glaflfl Inaur The New Fidel ity and ateGlaaa Inaaraaea ompany, of Newarh, and tha Greal I aaten ualty Company also share the window r.sk in the affected an ln c. a Ith tl i Inaar? aaea. queation wus rnisr.i hy Will Un T.

ef tha Lloyds company, whether the insurai.ee companies nre tha window damape if the cause of tha Ioaa araa fire. Mr. Woods did not say that of the companies was likely to raiae thr. oh jeetion to liahihty for present loss. hut there la a clause in nearly all plate-ftlaaa insurance poli cies whrch relieves the compames from liahrlity for window brcakapo "by or in consequence of anv tire Record In Window Damape.

"It is imposa-ible to pive Btan a rough estimate of the insurr.nce loss," said Mr. Woods, "Iut, from what I seen of the damape ln lower Man r.afnn and in the Thirty-fourth Street shoppinp section, I think the damage is the preatest in my experience. I net made survey that could be considered at r.11 complete, but you must remember that "100,000 buys a tfreat deal of plass." The greatest p.urt of the damape t.i property in N'ew Vork Citv an.i N'ew Jersey, outside of the rllack Tom peninsula, was the shattennp of bip tnd panes, splinterinp of window frames, failinp ceiiinps and weaken inp foundations. The Fame ia true of the destruetion ln the outlyinp area.i felt the force of the shocks. The truck in waves that played freah In or.o buildinp it smashed throuph plass panes on the street level.

Next door to it or across the way it struck the upper floors of a flky aeraaei and ahattared a row of win? dows al! around the buildinp Neither the old subways nor the new eonstrurron work was affected hy the Robert Ridireway, nn 1 entrineer of the Public Servire Com- mission, sent enpineers to inspect the vhole system, new and old, immedi? ately after the Ile said last nipht that none of the men had reported any trouble. Mr. Rldpeway did not expert that the strueture at any po.nt would be weakened or need ex'ra shorinp as a result of the ion of windows, window framer-, doora, ceiiinps, ete in hattan and Hrooklyn estimated at about $SCM)tMM). it is impoaalble to paupe any other property damape. The police of the entire city, how- ever, had their hands full protectinp exposed wares of all kinds from thieves.

It was found necessary to i rope in certain storpa and sections. Maiden I.ane's jewelry and silverware were eapocially gnardod. All over the city timber windows were at a prcmium. aml in some cases the poiice thomaelvei had to board up wiadowa. Many loft propi tois lower Manhattan probably will lind this murnini.

that their breakable stock, like china, porcelain, bnc-a-brac, mflored aovore damage. Hrooklyn suffered equally with Man and thr same kiml of property tha lower Fulton Street section was puved with shattered plate glass. Iiepartment stores inataiaed ionvy wimlow losses, and sri.aH and householders from the Heights Fort Hamilton woke up early yesterday inorning to the tune of sphntering glass. Hig automobile display windows in Manhattan and Brooklyn somehow serious damage. but several motor car companies in upper Manhat? tan lost their massive glass fronts.

The section of Xew York (ity which suffered the heaviest loss through win dow hreakaf.e was the oftice building ciistr.rt below Fourteenth Street, and ccpecially ln the vidnlty of Bowlmg Green. The Custom House emerged from the bombardment with scarcely a window whole. Other Federal build? ings had little better luck. Damage to Public Buildings. Captain A.

B. Fry. englnecring chi. of the I'nited States Public Buildings, estimated the damage to public build at between 550,000 and $76,000. Another fear entertained yesterday was that some of the finely adjusted tirna locks on safes and vaults in the f.nancial district mav be found to bc of rear when employoa try to open them this morning.

Jeraey itj auifarod as ieverely as Manhattan and Brooklyn. The damage windows, etc. was estimated at ahout 1360,000. The (ity Hail in Jer ty was dnmaped to the extent about .25.000, and the eeilings in afsembly and courtrooms were loosened. Jersey residents in some in? stances were thrown out of their beds.

The business of Jersey (ity was the heaviest loser in property damage. The property damage in Bay? onne was about $10,000. The higgest damage on Ellis Island was to the administration and hospi? tal buildings. It was feared at first tha loss would be about $1,000,000, but later estimates said $100,000. On Bed leo'l Island the property destroyed was estimated to be worth ahout $150,000.

The Statue of Liberty, in spite of its Ity to Black Tom, escaped al moat unscathed. Three shrapnel holcp. ahout Miss waist line; the doors to the stntue were warped and bulged inward, but other wise the damage was slight. Part of the damage on Ellis Island was caused by a drifting, blazing munitions barge. Greeley 1900 38th Street FIFTH AVENUE 39th Street Store Hours: 9 A.

AL to 5 P. Closed Saturdays Final Clearance MEN'S SUITS Hand Tailored Formerly $22.50 to $30.00 $16.50 Complete Size Range, from 34 to 46, including Longs, Stouts and Shorts. Fabrics in variety; Cheviots, Worsteds, Mixed Tweeds and Flannels. Styles Three-Button, Soft Roll I jjdpIc Some skeleton, some half or quarter lined with silk or alpaca. These are Suits from our regular stock exclusively Materials and Tailoring are of highest standard, tor which Lord Taylor Clothing is noted.

No Charge for Alterations. WHERE THK EXPLOSION OCCURRED. Rlark Tom (Aotni by arrow) and its relati.m to Mew Vork Harbor. 150 Heroines on Ellis Island Face Peril of Blast Unmoved Many Narrow Escapes from Death as Brave Women Carry Children to Bursts Beside Sleeping Child. But She Is Unhurt.

"Out ef lRO women on Fllis Island when thc explosion came there were 160 braVe ones," the officiais there said yesterday afternoon. The number included doctors' wives. noraoa, matrons, cooks, immigrant women and immijrrant children. Not one of them exhibited any sif.n of panic; not one of them so miieh as cried. Women who would have be.n afraid to set oft ordinary' Fourth of July fireworks remained undaunted in the midst of the ihower of shrapnel.

It wai women who carried the bahies to, the boats, women who went back for blankets for the sick, women who stood on the shore and eheered when the tugs fastened their hooks into lifhtprs loaded with ammunition, likely to explode at any time. Fsther Tannenbaum, three years old, is the real heroine of Ellis Island. I'n happily, she slept through her moment of supreme courage, while her doll, Lena, on the pillow beside her, into a thousand bits by a ten pound shell. Fsther did noi waken even when she was carried to the boat with the other ynungsters. She cn.

for the first time this morning, when she returned to ronsciouyness to find her doll decapitated. Many Remarkable Another nuraculous escape was that of an immigrant mother, alone room with hor little firla. one of the tive windows in tl 1 room was broken by the explosion. The Booi was covered with and plaster, and the bed on which the children slept was littered with it. but neither younn ster received a scratch.

The mother herself suffered a slight cut on th? forehead. Thirteen "St Anthonys" and thir? teen "Our Fathers" saved the island from doatruetion, according to Mra Mary Anfc'ui end Sopbio Vigorita, matroi "It was an au ful crash, I "The women waked nnd vi.re We told them in Italian they were to prav to St. Anthony, who is the god af tire' Thev did. all tofotboi and all aloud The ones who could not speaK lulian, because they had come from gome other country. said 'Our Father.

Thev did it thirteen times and then wa told them atop--thei everything would be all right. And, plory be to God. St Anthony sl.w us throuph." rhfl immipruiit women who 11 to the ati ry nodded and made thl iM, as she gaid St. Anthony's C. Ramus, wife of Dr.

of Ellis Island, wns prohably the only woman there who aetually saw the ex? plosion. "Wl hadn't pone to when the first smnll ArOfl came. a little liter 1 o'eloch," aha aaid. "TTiea we awakfl te watch them aad I wns star inp diiaetly at Jersey City when the explosion came. First came the red that ht up the Jersey side, like a ealcium lipht thrown on the stape; then a thick, black pall-like coal I smoke, an.i then tha sound of the ri.

it had aeemed a lonp tlna eon ng, but it was aiajht With .1. G. Wil-aon. wife of Dr. Wilson, of the laland, Mrs.

Kamus car tha habiaa in the boapitaJ and thi detention quart. rs tha boats that were to convey them from the island. Nurses Prove Hravery. worked all night, takinp the. ehildren irom one point to another," she said.

beca-ne thickly dusled with black powder. Most of the inmigrants were perfectly stolid, sure Amei iromen froai Galicia were pointlag out' a little tup, inqniriag if it wai a war ship. w.as aplendid to iea taa rnl I iraei exhibited. Thi arho rifhl ui. to tha lifl-l arith ammunition, were -o brava I flt.1 on the thoro and choorod till I was, hoar.r.

An.l thfl felha in the enpine roona oa lha ialaad ittaeh bravely at their Miaa Franeei Hathaway, head I hoapital, had never seen a ralner proup of sick folk than thoae 'i from their beda to on thfl boat, rk Tom wl Chria on the Pf the Imimprar.r, arhich jjext tne Hudfloa, "Captain John J- Gorman kn oot hia mouth Ly a uu-pouiid shflli." ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. Today and Also Tomorrow Saks Suits for Men Reduced from $28, $25, $23 $20-to $17 Plus a few Pertinent Remarks To be quite frank ahout it, this sale il not an appeal, hut an opportunity. We are not asking a favor, we are confernntf one! There is a vast dift'erencc between the eustomary frantie attempts to get rid of unsalable merchandiae and this remarkable offering of fine Saks Suits at saviims that range up to (11 per suit.

And it is from that point of view that we ask you to regard this sale, for any other point of view is erroneous and tmjuft to you and to us. These are this scason's Saks Suits- all that is left of our (23 and $20 selections--and wc invite you to take your choice at $17 before the available supply is exhatiated A small charge wlll be made for alterations Sc (Tcffl.pat.lJ ELLIS ISLAND RAKED BY SHELLS Bombarded on Two Sides by Explosives from Drifting Barges. IMMIGRANTS TAKEN ON BOAT TO BATTERY Doctor Overcome When Fight ing Frames Ripped from Buildings. Ellis Island was bombarded from both sides yesterday morning after tha first explosion. when barpes loaded with explosives drifted by to east and west.

Not a window on the island is H-hole, and screens. sashes, curtains, r.wninps. frapments of plass and spiintcred wood strew the walks. Huge windows, fifteen feet by twelve. with caatae-a a foot thick, were ripped from th-s brick walls and pushed in as thouph the hupe immipration buildinp lad been pastebor.rd.

Iron lattice work on elevators was twisted and torn. and paps appeared in the ceiiinps, sprayinp the whole buildinp with plaster. The water near the island yesterday uas corited with wreckage. atd the lawns were decorated with shells, hullets and powder boxes. A clock on the wall of one of the inquiry board rooms, twisted sirteways on the wall, stopped workinp at a.

the time of the explosion. Prompt, and even heroic, action on the part of the officials averU-d damape, md prevented a panic amonp the immiprants. Island Forces in Peril. No lives were lost, although foieei 'rom the hospitals and thfl bip a istrtation buildinp were expofl. II times tl the flyil an.l shattered plass.

Difficulties in tight ing the little re that started when one of the rocketing floatc. into the brnipe between Islands Nos. 1 and 2 were made preater by the thick pali of smoke that drifted over frora Mack Tom. Dr Trimble, one of those who risked hifl life ln the re r.phtrnp, was. overcome by smoke and artificial respiration was rerorted to before he -ained eonscioisness Assistant Night Superintendent Sh.nper was cut on the face and arm by flying plass.

Nipht Superintendent I.eonard, al? though in the thick of the bombard? ment. was untouched. His worst trou explained, was w.th the immi rranta, who were almost panicstneken. rat explosion he took with a steady hand, and bad BTOr ready to vacate the building if neces fhe immigrants in his charge were formed into a line and held in readi for anything. When the glare of the fire from Black Tom WM aaaa, Mr.

Leonard informed his head nurse. Immigrants Got Warning. Afl the immigrant women, I'a! la'ns and Creeks, were becoming testless he gatt tha order. "Women and habies tirst, an.l I'll break the neck of any body that pcts out of line Mr. I.eon ard'is in class, and no one earod to see if he meant it.

Thi line of screamir.p women was marshalled down the stairs nnd out to thc lawn on the north side of the buildinp. furthest from Black Tom From there the fire could not be seen. and there was little danger from the explosions on the barges as they wer.t past- Ifoanwhila Mr. Leonard ordered the rs Island boat around to the north side ot' the island, both for its own safety and to facilitate removal of the immiprants if that should become laary. When the second explosion ihoob th? building a'l the her.led on board the boat.

Mr. Leonard inapected the buildinp, to see that no one had been left the count showt-d that 1253, all immi in his charpe, were taken to the Battary, and the boat was ready for another load should it be necessary to empty the hospitals. Burning Boats Drift Past. Two burninp boats, with ammunition azplodlag at Intervala, drifted past the power house on the weal flida Watei from the power boBflfl was turned on aad a fire boat stood in of tha ra of shells. vi boata wota entin llfhtora driftiag laland one of them, roundinp No.

3, was enough to set fire to The blaze was extit.guished hy s'reams from the power plant on the island. Laland No. 3 contain? tha ICnmpattij Broadway at 34th Street Beginning today nt $:.10 A. M. An Important Clearance and Sale of 10,000 Men's Shirts EVERY shirt in our Autumn stock must be fresh and NEW.

Therefore, we have reduced a large quantity of shirts from our regular Summer stock and combined with them the choicest garments of a special purchase to sell at these re? markable prices today. At formerly sold at jgjiO formerly sold at $2 and anfi and high-grade and seiected gar. shirts of a special pur- mentg from a chase. Made ot silk and purchase. Made of silk cotton and all silk tab- n.

and cotton tabrics, hand ncs, Tartan cords, (den Royal Zephyrs, mercer- loomed crede ized cloths and fine qual- cloth, Tanan cords. dim ity crede cloth. ities, mercerized cloths. The designs include cluster md pencil stripe efTects, satin stripes, figured and jacquard designs. Negligees with soft cuffs, and pleated models with stiff cuffs.

All sizes from to in? cluding sleeve lengths up to 36 inches. AJ.s'o fnr today Monday Men's Embroidered Crepe Neckwear at 49c, 69c and $1.35 Rrand new, hand-barred scarfs in a wide range of exclusive hand-machine embroidered designs. Made of satin-backed all silk crepe meteor that will hold Iti shape longer than any other crepe neckwear material obtainable. Floral. figured and spot effects to select from, in a large variety of ixquisite colorings.

"Cinelli" Straw Hats for Men Formerly $3 Reduced to $1.65 Clean and perfect fine and fancy sennits, mostly from our reserve Btock, the majority being fitted with sanitary "Ron Ton" Iw banda. All $2 Straw Hats Reduced to $1 tl I tti tt 1 hiof Surgton Wilaon, Hr. I irl Ramoa and inoa all N'o. 2, which pitaU, and then tha tire. I'r.

Kanun that in spito of the it most beautiful siffht ever taen. I'r. Wilson was er thnaiaatie ahout the booatioa tha scene. Both were fotrtd ahout thfl fur whirh, thay no praise could I high. Island offleiall wore unanimous in.

bal tf that i ten InJui pounda, era had i ri mmi granta. What aovad tha believed, la that most ol the open. Mr. Leonard said that if tha big building heen the whole south wall would pushed in, if and offi? ciais had baen inside hundredi would killi 1 BARGE COLONY LONG IN SHRAPNEL FIRE Halchcs Battered In by Force of One Hurt. of the large colony ot barges anehored huck of tha Btoraga ComptMjr'a wara arara andor flre fnr hours aft.t Shrapnel tora their cabins, and car wheeii and iron broke open the hatchta.

None of the boats in the large flaet sank, and most of the damage was doaa to the hatchet and.