The Garvin Graphic. (Garvin, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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THE GARVIN GRAPHIC
Thirteen Warehouses Loaded With
Munitions Destined for the Allied
Forces Are Blown Up
LIFE LOSS SMALL BUT
WILL REACH
Principal Damage Confined to Black
Tom Island and the Jersey Shore
Office Buildings Rock and Streets
Strewn with Thousands of
Plate Glass Windows
New York — Property Joss estimated
at $25000000 was caused early Sun-
day by a series of terrflo explosions of
ammunition awaiting shipment to the
entente allies and stored on Black
Tom Island a small strip of land Jut-
ting Into New York bay off Jersey
City The loss of Ifle still is proble-
matical Three are known to be dead and at
least five more are missing Scores
of persons were Injured some of them
probably fatally
The detonations which were felt In
five states began with a continuous
rapid fire of small shells then the
blowing up of great quantities of dyna-
mite trlmtrotoioul and other high ex-
plosives followed by the bursting of
thousands of shrapnel shells which
showered the surrounding country and
waters for miles around
Merchandise Worth $15000000 Burned
Fire that Btarted Boon after the first
great crash destroyed thirteen of the
huge warehouses of the National Stor-
age Company on Black Tom Island In
which were stored merchandise valued
at between $12000000 and $15000000
The flames shooting into the clouds
were reflected against New York’s
skyline of towering office buildings
which only a few moments before
were shaken to their foundations as
if by an earthquake Miles of streets
in Manhattan were strewn with brok-
en glass and shattered signs
Reports of heavy loss of life were
impossible of verification and the
authorities asserted the number of
deaths probably would be small It
was said that owing to the extent of
the wreckage it might be several days
before the exact figures could be ob-
tained Fire Started on Independent Barge
The cause of the disaster has not
been determined Officials of the Na-
tional Storage Company and the Le-
high VUey railway which also suf-
fered heavily through loss of property
declared that reports to them showed
a fire started shortly after 1 o'clock
in the morning on a barge belonging
to an independent towing company
that had been moored alongside a
dock used by the railroad company to
transfer ammunition shipments from
trains to vessels In the harbor
The barge it was said was there
without authority either of the rail-
road or the storage company The
officials refused to disclose the name
of the Independent towing company
saying they weer investigating “to as-
certain whether the barge purposely
was set on fire as the result of a
plot"
Warrants charging manslaughter
were Issued for the arrest of Albert
M Dickman agent at the Black Tom
Island docks for the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company Theodore B John-
son head of the Johnson Lighterage
and Towing Company and Alexarfiler
Davidson superintendent of the Na-
tional Storage Company They are
accused of having Illegally permitted
explosives to be stored where human
life was endangered Johnson's com-
pany had been engaged it was said
In lightering muntions from the docks
to ships in the harbor
Thirteen 6torage Warehouses Lost
A statement issued by the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company said:
“Thirteen brick storage warehouses
cut of the twenty-four owned and oper-
ated by the National Storage Com-
pany and six piers owned by the stor-
age company and leased to the Lehigh
Valley railroad were destroyed Sev-
eral of the other brick warehouses
were badly damaged and some minor
damage was done to the Lehigh Valley
grain elevators In addition as far as
is known eighty-five loaded cars were
destroyed
Loaded Cars Are Hurriedly Removed
"M T Henly night general yard-
Conflagration At Petrograd
Berlin— Reports reached here of a
great conflagration at Petrograd in
which a bridge across the river Neva
and twelve large steamers including
several trans-Atlantic liners and the
Putiloff gun works and other establish-
ments were destroyed Flaming pon
toons drifted to Vasslll Ostov (Basil
Island) where a huge fire broke out
and also to the port where twelve
large steamers Including seevral
trans-Atlantic liners docks docks and
the Putlioff works took fire
PROPERTY DAMAGE
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION
master-for the New York division of
the Lehigh Valley railway was on the
pier when the fire started He said
that the explosion which occurred at
2:08 o'clock was in the barge wijere
the fire started
“Mr Henly's first thought was to
remove the loaded cars on the pier
from the danger xone He said that
when he reached the end of the pier
the barge was burning fiercely all
over and the fire was beginning to com-
municate Itself to some of the cars
nearest the barge
' “Two long trains of cars were suc-
cessfully removed from the danger
zone before the rapidly spreading fire
engulfed the balance
40000 Tone of Raw Sugar Burned
“It has not yet been definitely deter-
mined Just what the money losses will
be Some 40000 tons of raw sugar
valued at approximately $3400000 Is
known to be lost It is belieevd that
the other contents of the warehouses
destroyed will greatly Increase this
amount
Edmund Mackenzie president of the
National Storage Company declared
that the plant of his concern was val-
ued at $7000000 while the contents
of the warehouses probably were
worth $100o0000 One of the ware-
houses which remains intact he said
Is filled lth chemicals Beside the
great quantity of raw sugar burned
there were 24000 bales of tobacco
much matting from China and Japan
and other merchandise The loss to
his company and the railroad Macken
z!o said was partly covered by in-
surance Railroad Man Killed
C W Leyden chief of the Lehigh
Valley railroad police was killed
while aiding an engine crew In at-
tempting to save a number of freight
cars from the fire
A quantity of dynamite exploded
near where he was standing and blew
his body to atoms The members et
the crew escaped with lacerations and
burns
Child Dies of Shock
The body of an unidentified man
was recovered from the water near
the Lehigh Valley pier A child in
Jersey City according to the police
died from shock after the first ex-
plosion 6tatue of Liberty Damaged
Every window in the pedestal of the
Statue of Liberty on Bedloe’s island
opposite Black Tom was broken and
tlie main t!$or made pf Iron and
weighing almost a ton was blown off
its hinges The statue itself how
ever was not damaged except from
the rain of shrapnel which bespat-
tered It
Although the plant which furnished
power for Bedloe’s Island was Bbaken
and partly put out of commission the
famous “light of Liberty" burned
steadily throughout the hours of con-
fusion Little Damage On Ellis Island
Early reports of damage to the
buildings on Ellis Island were ex-
aggerated according to Captain A B
Fry supervising engineer of federal
bui’dings in New York Captain Fry
said the loss could not exceed $50000
Most of the damage at the immigra-
tion station was In wrecked walks and
buildings and shattered windows and
doorways Two barges ablaze and
laden with sharpnel shells drifted to
tho island An explosion on one oi
the barges damaged the structure
housing the power plant
Two other fire-swept craft grounded
on the southwest corner of the Island
which contains the contagious disease
hospital The medical staff removed
450 Immigrants on the island to the
Battery
Many 8hlpe Suffer
Many small craft as well as several
good sized steamers and sailing ves-
Really Not His Fault
The family were going to a picnic
and Howard bad been dressed first
and told to sit on the porch until the
rest were ready Soon after his mother
discovered him playing In the dirt
with his clean clothes hopelessly
ruined After the painful scene which
followed be was deposited forcibly on
a chair and asked If he did not remem-
ber he bad been told to stay on tbe
porch and keep clean “Yes" he sob-
bed “but why dkln't you tell somebody
to watch met
sels were badly damaged Crews a
tbe big ocean liners anchored In the
harbor or docked along the New Jew
sey and New York water fronts do
dared that hen the first two great
explosions occurred It appeared as If
tlielr vessels were literally picked op
out of the water and then hurled back
All New York and cities within a
radius of v twenty-five miles were
awakened by the explosion Within an
hour 6000 telephone calls went over
the police wire from excited inquirers
Hundreds of thousands of persons
many of them scantily clad ran excib
edly through the streets while auto
mobiles containing policemen firemen
and others dashed along Detectives
were rushed to Malden Lane tbe
home of tbe jewelry industry to guard
againBt thieves
Thousands of persons In Jersey City
fled to the parks after the first ex-
plosion Panic stricken women
wheeled baby carriages about some
of them praying and others scream
Ing
The large railroad yards of the Le
high Valley and tbe reclaimed meadow
land for mlies around virtually wer
covered with great piles of wreckage
and countless shrapnel shells many
of which had not exploded
Many spectators carried away
shrapnel shells as Bouvenlrs In some
Instances they had been dug from the
earth two or three miles away from
the scene of the explosion
No special investigation of the ex-
plosion will be undertaken by the do
partment of Justice according to a
Washington dispatch unless evidence
is developed that It was a plot aimed
at the destruction of munitions of war
A B Bielaskl chief of the bureau of
Investigation received word that so
far no facts had been developed to
show that the explosion was the result
of a plot
FOREST FIRES RAGE IN CANADA
One Hundred and Fifty Deaths Re
portede
Englehart Ont — Forest fires rag-
ing in northern Ontario are believed
to have resulted in tbe loss of from
150 to 200 lives Other scores of per-
sons have been injured and It Is feared
many of them may die
At least five small towns have been
wiped out by the flames that have
been raging for forty-eight hours
Reports thus far received show that
fifty-seven perished at Nushka a
French-Canadian settlement and thirty-four
injured Iroquois Falls fifteen
dead and many injured and Ramore
fifteen dead The number killed at
Porcupine Junction is not known but
the entire town exoept the railroad
station was destroyed
The death list will be materially In-
creased it Is feared by victims in out-
lying districts There are apparently
a ell authenticated reports that many
prospectors have been trapped at
Tashota and Kowash One farmer and
bis ten children are known to have
been burned while the man's wife wai
vainly seeking aid to check tbe on-
rushing flames
Nushka a hamlet consisting of a
score of frame buildings and Btores
suffered worst It bad been threap
ened for several days but the resi-
dents lingered In the hope they might
save their homes
Refugees without food or clothing
are pouring into the larger towns ol
the burned district A large number
hare arrived here and are being sent
to Cobalt and Haileybury Eng’ebart
citizens worked all night caring for
the homeless wanderers
Hundreds of square miles of bush
and farm land bare been burned over
Isolated settlers took refuge in lakes
and rivers leaving all their belongings
behind
Rain fell at Matheson and several
other points but a long continued
dow-npour will be necessary t ex-
tinguish the fires and prevent teens
from sweeping further southward
Poets' Praise of Ale
More poets have been inspired In
modern times by Brassenose ale
brewed at Brasenose college Oxford
than by any other malt liquor of re-
cent memory At one time it was a
custom tor the college butler on every
Tuesday to present a collection of ale-
praising verse to the principal and re-
ceive a sum of money Several of
these outpourings the writing of un-
dergraduates have appeared In book
form
Where It Was Needed
My young nephew and a -neighbor's
boy were discussing what they wanted
to be when they grew up to be men
My nephew who has a dog that snaps
at the children said: “I want to be a
Hon tamer" The neighbor's boy In a
disgusted tone of voice said: "Better
tart on your dog first' — Chicago Trlb
une
Aigrettes from India
Algrqtte plumes are now obtained
In India In much the same manner U
which we get our ostrich plumes
When oaptured the birds become very
tame They are fed upon fish The
birds grow rapidly and each year pro
duce four sets of the delicate highly
priied aigrettes The aigrette Is re-
moved without the least Injury to the
bird India seems to be the only
!ountry In which aigrettes can be ob-
tained without killing tbe mother bird
(for her plumee
New Discovery! Takes Place of Dangerous Calomel— It Puts Your Liver To
Work Without Making You Sick— Eat Anything— It Can Not
Salivate — Don’t Lose a Day’s Work!
I discovered a vegetable compound that does
the work of dangerous sickening calomel and I
want every reader of this paper to try a bottle
and if it doesn’t straighten you up better and
quicker than salivating calomel just go back to
the store and get your money
I guarantee- that one spoonful of Dodson’s
Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work
and clean your thirty et of bowels of the sour
bile and constipation poison which is clogging
your system and making you feel miserable
I guarantee that one spoonful of this harmless
liquid liver medicine will relieve the headache bil-
iousness coated tongue ague malaria sour stom-
ach or any other distress caused by a torpid liver
as quickly as a dose of vile nauseating calomel
besides k will not make you sick or keep you from
Kisses on the Sly
"We Plunkville girls agreed that
men who drink shall have none of
our kisses"
“How is It working?"
“We suspect that some of the girls
are acting as osculatory bootleggers
so to speak" — Louisville Courier-
Journal Disagreeable and Dangerous Trouble
is Diarrhoea but a speedy and certain
cure la found in Mississippi Diarrhoea
CordiaL Price 25c and &0c — Adv
Expensive
“Your son graduated from college
this year did he not?"
“He -did I've got him in the office
with me now"
“That’s a good Idea"
“I don't know about that I've had
to hire two extra office boys to keep
him supplied with cigarettes"
IMITATION IS 8INCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the Imlta-
' tion has not the worth of the original
i Insist on “La Creole" Hair Dressing—
It's the original Darkens your hair in
the natural way but contains no dye
Price $100 — Adv
In the Confusion
I “There was considerable confulon
' In the cate last night when the lights
went out Didn’t I see-you at a table?"
i “Yes I was there”
I “Some fellows got kisses In the
darkness"
J “I got a check for six dollars Some-
body switched checks on me My own
was for two”
To Fortify the System Against
Summer Heat
Many users of Grove's Tasteless Chill
Tome make it a practice to take this old
j standard remedy regularly to fortify the
system against the depressing effect of
summer heat as those who are strong
1 withstand the heat of summer better than
those who are weak Price 50c
Worth Preserving
“A citizen chased a pickpocket nine
blocks yesterday and caught him"
“My! The pickpocket must have
taken something valuable from the cit-
izen" “Yes His wallet held only two one-
dollar bills in currency but it also
contained some snapshots of fish the
citizen caught tills summer"
Private Quarrels
Both chef and waiter were Irish and
excitable The waiter rushed back In-
to the kitchen red with rage
“You’ve done it now!" he said
“There Is a customer kicking about the
potatoes He says they’re no good
They’ve nil got black eyes"
i'lduek eyes?" said the cook “Sure
I an' if they have It’s no fault of mine
The hastes must have been fightlu' af-
ter I put ’em lu the pot!"
Atfruco Fly-Bane for Flies
Warbles Mosquitoes Gnats Lice
Ticks and Vermin on Stock of all
kinds Increase the Milk — try 1L— Adv
Compulsory
Rear Admiral I Vary nt a Washing-
ton tea talked about his recent Long
Bench flying trip when he tell 1200
feet Into the water without knowing it
“I wasn’t frightened" he said “I
thought that our swift descent was a
piece of fancy flvlna I am lu fact as
ignorant of aviation ns the little boy
was ignorant of history
“‘Describe the Order of the Bath
bis teacher asked this little boy
“ 'It’s very ancient be answered
‘It goes back to the time when they
didn’t take no baths except by order"
PREPAREDNESS
Prepare for next washday by taking
borne Red Cross Ball Blue Ask any
good grocer Red Cross Hall Blue im-
parts a Clear white makes you smlta
when you see the basket of beautiful
snowy white clothes Red Cross the
blue that’s true blue — Adv
There are 109 varieties of oyster
and Gained 28 Pounds
Mrs Mattie Spate of Mario Okla ono of tho vmot number of women who have boon saved by
Btella-Vitae aajra to praising thla wonderful remedy: “When I beno using 8tU-Vite I weighed
b Jt 82 pounds and oould hardly ait op to bo weighed Now I can work all day feel bettor than I have
In nine years sad have gained 28 pound’' Stoba-Vitae is a godsend to suffering womanhood IS
givee strength and health to the female organa sets as a tonic on tbe nervea restores vigor and
pangs tbe bloom of health to ebooks tost are faded and pale It to guaranteed All dealer SI a bottim
THACHER MEDICINE CO CHATTANOOGA TENN
in Sold for 47 yean Far
I II O KalariaCtiHj tFerer
Aka Fine General
©BLLTONIC
What's on His Mind?
A man on ao Evansville car carried
a cage containing a pigeon and canary
bird
“Huh well mated" remarked one of
the passengers
“About as well as some married peo-
ple I know" rejoined the owner— In-
dianapolis News
BABIES AND GROWING CHILDREN
need a tonic to tone up the system and
regulate the liver Mothers are con-
stantly using with wonderful success
our “Plantation" Chill and Fever Ton-
ic Pleasant to take— contains no Cal-
omeL Price 60c— Adv
Truth
“What is your idea in trying to sell
your car?"
“That’s the only way I can raise
enough money to buy gasoline"
“But the gasoline won’t be of any
use to you after you’ve sold your
car"
“Oh yes it wilL My frieads will
always be willing to let me ride In
their cars If I furnish the gas"
A HINT TO WISE WOMEN
Don’t suffer torture when all female
troubles will vanish in thin air after using
"Femenma" Price 50c and fioo— Adv
Pa's Opinion
"Pa" asked little Sammy Twobble
“what Is a misnomer?"
“My son" answered Mr Twobble
whose Idea of having a good time Is
to take a nnp In an easy chair close
to an electric fan “I should say the
average pleasure resort is a misno-
mer" Not Likely
“How little men understand wom-
en !"
“Nonsense I I don’t believe they un-
derstand them any better than big
men do"
Bumper Grain Crops
Good Markets— High Prices
prize Awarded to Wo tern Canada for
Wheat Oat Bartey Alfalfa and Qraem
The winnings of Western Canada at the Soil Product!
Exposition at Denver were easily made The list
comprised Wheat Ots Barley and Grasses the most
important being the prizes for Wheat and Oats and
sweep stake on All Alia
No less important than the splendid-quality of Western
Canada’s wheat and other grams is the excellence of
the cattle fed and fattened on the grasses of that
country A recent shipment of cattle to Chicago
topped the market in that city for quality and price
te ne war lex sa lend end Be csoscrlptioa
Send for Bluet rated pamphlet and ask for reduced railway rataa fafonnatfee ae to bert Va
Addreaa Supennicodcoi Immigrauoo Ottawa Canada or
G A COOK 2012 Mala Street Kaaeea City Me
Canarilat Govennacm Agent
a day's work I want to see a bottle of this won-
derful liver medicine in every home here
Calomel is poison — it' mercury — it attacks the
bones often causing rheumatism Calomel is dan-
gerous It sickens — while my Dodson's Liver
Tone is safe pleasant and harmless Eat any-
thing afterwards because it can not salivate Give
it to the children because it doesn’t upset the stom-
ach or shock the liver Take a spoonful tonight
and wake up feeling fine and ready for a full
day's work
Get a bottle! Try it! If it doesn't do exactly
what I say tell your dealer to hand your money
back Every druggist and store keeper here knows
me and knows of my wonderful discovery of a
vegetable medicine that takes the place of danger-
ous calomeL — Adv
a-Vite
60c end tl00 at all
Dntf Store
Just the Thing
"Do you consider journalism prop-
er work for a lady?"
“Why not? All women have a fond-
ness for press work "
Oklahoma Directory
Films Developed Kf
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fiend for catalog
Westfall Druct Co Kodak Dept
206 W Main Eastman Agents Oklahoma Clt)
Storage Batteries
Mode to order fo any make of ear If your old
battery is Inoperative prepay It to ns sod we
will give you a price on putuog It In firM-claan
cutulitioa or allow yon 69 to 6 00 a new ous
PratyCa 427 W Mala Oklaksnu City Okla
Lee-Huckins
n OKLAHOMA CITY
FIREPROOF
450 Rooms 300 Baths
Rales: (land upwards
TVTTO TC Women as well as
vf li v tneo are made miaer-
T ft able by kidney and
bladder trouble Thou-
14 T A M I? sands recommend Dr
DDAiUD Kilmer’s Swamp-
Root the greet kidney remedy At drug-
gists in flfty-cent end dollar sixes You
may receive a sample slxe bottle by Par-
cel Post also pamphlet telling about it
Address Dr Kilmer A Co Binghamton
N Y and enclose ten cents also mention
this paper
GET A FARM In Island county Wasbing-
ta Wheat yields OS to 117 bu per screw
Productive soil: cllraat Ideal Write for
free booklet T F Jeter Camaao Wash
W N U Oklahoma City No 32-1916
Westers Cuds predated fa 19IS tm third at mefc steal
as all of the Uaited State eg over 304904000 faukcU
Canada in proportion to population has a greater
exportable surplus of wheat this year than any
country in the world and at present prices you
can figure out the revenue for the pro
ducer In Western Canada you will find
r " ?S v markets splendid schools excep-
ts tional social conditions perfect climate
"c' “ and other great attractions There
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