Smyrna times., 1911-02-15

Buildings Shaken. Windows S1ztterea
ard People Thought Il Was an
Earthquake. ara Panic Alnost Fol-
Iowes.
Fo--y -ocs C dynamite exploded q
The Je-sey waIe- front Il the middle
@ 5.ltl.l-5 people and 5,.-1.Qll things
happened
Rz5-z--LZ from tie North river ed
CT pier NJ Il Ire JERSEY Ce-t-al's
freight terminal I Cc-E-2ipaw, ILs
cc-c-ss.o1 rocked Manhattan t-o-
end . end Je-sey I-eU5-e5 for Czc!
miles hack . TIE MARSHES AEay on
Z Long Island people started up II
trembling Buildings and thought i (
vas a2 earthquake Everywhere TIE (
skESc-ape-s v-c-a-e5 and spilled III I
5ow glass 5--1 TIE streets.
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ire explosion re destruction vas so 4
complete I1zr = vas cex- . iCQo= /
s--.e . determine re -u-te- g --e
killed c. re precise reason = ca
dad O dynamite ard = quantity stored
It CEo lighters x 90 L : probable
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-za- rEe-Ey-zve o J1sss were blown
. D.a-ss -ez- Is pier ed.
/ vas seTe-al minutes before he
railroad Ce- = IEe -e-Z-Cs- under
s-oo6 e1ac-lg whaI lad occ1--e1- A.
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II u debris. -5e.- frs business wzs
. care to- re cc----e-s. E1o Ee-s
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+ lad bee1 injured 7 re Cr1sayal q
+ g-zss and i-o1 and s1.---s-s-
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Il broken z-zzs over AZ are O. z-C--
for -e-.z-s zsE : minute ard ina
ne 80 people running f0- cover OF
\ rzz- acre. and y0u Eiu have fan
- tsea q ~hzr tcok Place Il The dept
l. There Esre fragments O. 1oti
here ard there. Z leg and n am his
ID Il TIE -igZ-1g q tie NoTEegi.
ship EEid- : dead nan i tie 70
q The sane ship: shattered t0-
zuong the cozl piles o. per No.
BIZ there we're twenty-five =
souz-ely a. the center @ the exp
sion- ard ro- Z trace Of then =
three uzzgle5 bodies we're fo1-
Threequzrters of = nile away
: captain of the rugbozt Tuo1y :
blown through his plot house
Z killed. Ehicz made Up the number
( dead possu-sly known as four
There Vas hardly any oouoZ u
: minds q tie railroad Ds1 after L
Z had tzned With TIE barge sEpp
% and the dock =orE-s1 ~1o had .
> less than % yards away from TIE
rs-.re car, some q then. that al
I, the twenty-five 1s1 had been
s-r0yed
me violence Of the eIplosi01 Cd
a its czzss- TIE men WHO II
- have told : straight story we're &
and the dynamite Ez1 taken care
o-ter evidence Theories and SO
uzssed wildly all through the "a
gk ne railroad us7 agreed that L
wzs a preliminary explosion eir1ei
ooiIe- o. ot escaped gasoline
bozrd tie lighter Whistler OF o.
lighter katherine W.-en sxplo'
Which instantly SCI o1 the dEnzr
fozSed in their holds and s-1l