Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-12-24
tAnTWERP'S HORROR
The Dynamite Explosions
Terrible Result.
NUMBER OF THE DEAD GREAT
Horribly Mutilated Portions of Many
Bodies Found by the searchers.

1t Is Expected that Many Moro Bodies
We're Thrown Into the Water by the
Force of tho Explosion-The Ship Had
Who Tried to Smugsla Dynamite Int"
the City for the Sake of Larger Profit.
ANTWERP, Dec. 4.-The loss of life
occasioned by the explosion of the cargo
of the French dy Mantle ship is greater
than was at first su pposed, although
the exact number of killed will never
be known, for the explosion must have
illed many strangers about the ship
and about the quay where the shattered
vessel was moored
The ship was found by fishermen il
he North Sea, abandoned, and with
o. 900 kilos of dynamite on board. The
sherman lowed the derelict to tn g
liver in Antwerp. On arriving at the
17harf they, knowing that dynamite was
y OF allowed to be kept in any vessel t
ine docks in Antwerp, pretended to un
{soad all tn at was on board for speedy
&emoval. They concealed half the dy-
Namite, however, on the vessel, ntend-
.,lg to smuggle it into town, and make
large profit on the sale. One of the
ashermen, who was nervous on acco unit
4 the deadly character of the stuff,
.ropped in the hold a package. viii ch
4se had picked up for smuggling.
Immediately most terrific explosion
occurred.
The horrors of the scene can hardly be
.-escri bed.
Y Crowds of people surrounded the
,ained district immed lately after tine
explosion. The number soon increased
} such an extent that troops had to
e sent for to maintain order and all oW
me searchers to attend to their work.
Fragments of the ship, intermixed
With human remains, are scattered here
and there about the scene of the expo
SION.
Shattered legs and arms, hands and
teet heads and other portions Of human
bodies, are scattered about on all sides,
and are being gathered up in barrows
by police and workmen sent to the sp Of
by the municipal authorities.
The neighboring wharves are strewn
with debris besmeared with blood and
mixed with pieces of human flesh.
Wheelbarrows full of pieces of deaG
bodies have been taken away.
the quay is greatly damaged.
There are the usual strange freaks oil
explosion recorded. One of the ships
masts is said, by people who witnessed
the explosion, to have been shot up,
hundreds of feet into the air, and to
have fallen down, like an arrow. II
is now said to be stuck deep in the mud
of the harbor
Another portion of wreckage was
hurled through the walls of. house,
making hole similar to that which a
shell fired out of heavy gun would have
made.
A human head was found tw
hundred yards fro m where the shil
blew up. 1t had landed on the roof o
house and then rolled into the stree
below. Of course e, it was C rushed be
yond recognition.
One man was killed by ships block
which passed entirely through his body
The force of the explosion was S
great that the whole neighborhoo'
seemed to rock and tremble. Ever
window within the sweep of the concus
sion was shatter ed; doors were blown il
and crushed as if by battering rams
people at considerable distance from
the quay where the ship blew up wer
swept off their feet and hurled, ruise
| and bleeding. for yards.
Many are so severely injured that the.
| cannot recover from their injuries
| many others are badly cut by falling
| glass and by falling pieces of the wreck
| age.
The remains of % bodies have been 5
| far discovered, and it is expected tina
l many many more will be found in thu
| water