Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-07

Just before the explosion tinN
wisp of smoke was seen by a seaman
working in the head of the vessel. He
gave the alarm and fourteen OF the
British boats crew jumped into q
launch and headed away from the
ship before the blast came.
LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE.
Philadelphia. March THE dyna
mite explosion near Baltimore wa.
remarkable for the great distance III,
shock of the blast was felt. At Coates.
will, the windows of the high school
ratified. The shock was felt at the
Philadelphia navy yard in Reading
nearly 100 miles from Baltimore; III
a number of cities in southeastern
Pennsylvania in New Jersey as far
as Atlantic City.
Many say the tremor was so dis
tinct as to cause the people to be
leve an earthquake had occurred.
AFFECTS LEGISLATURE.
The shock interrupted the proceed
ings of the lower house Of the Dela,
ware legislature at Dover the speak r
remarking that there had just been
an earthquake
The Munson Steamship company,
agents for the Alum Chine, received
message from their agents in Balti-
more saying that the vessel had blown
up but that no details were obtain
able. The ship was no where III
sight after the explosion, according
to the message
The ship, a small tramp of 1867
tons gross burden, was owned by the
Alum Chine Steamship company OF
Cardiff, Wales. She left New York
for Baltimore February 26, arriving
March l. She expected to sail today
for Colon with a load of dynamite to
be used for government work on the
Panama canal.
SHAKES BALTIMORE.
Baltimore, Md, March People at
first thought an earthquake had oa
Cured. A school house at Sparrow
Point several miles from the scene
Of the explosion, was partly destroyed
and several children hurt. Baltimore
itself was shaken as if by powerful
trembling of the earth, and tall build
Egs in the center of the city rocked
HURLED FOUR MILES.
Scores of vessels hurried 10 the
scene of the disaster to render all aid
hey could. The explosion was so
powerful that pieces of steel weighing
fifty pounds were hurled through t.le
,ir for distance of four miles Cases
,f dynamite were thrown for great
distance from the Chine and exploded
Is they fell, adding to the damage
md destruction.
The injured were removed as speed
ly as possible to this city. The dock
where they disembarked was a scene
If pathetic effort on the part of women
md children, seeking to learn the
lames of the dead asad to identify tie
wounded.
FIRST REPORT.
Baltimore, Md, March 7.-An explo-
ion of dynamite, far reaching and dis
lstrous in its results, occurred In the /
over harbor Of Baltimore this morn
ng, when more than 300 tons of the
Explosive, being loaded on board the
British steamer Alum Chine blew up.
The known dead number seven. Of
hese four belonged to the crew of the
Alum Chine and three were on board
he United States naval collier Jason
Twenty-nine other men on the col
ier and the greater part of the crew
,hine were injured.
DEATH LIST GROWS. /
Baltimore, Md, March six of
he crew of the tug Atlantic lying
longside the Alum Chine were killed
nd the tug practically destroyed.
The latest reports place the mum.
'er of dead at 20 and the injured at
orty. OF the latter, ten of the ia
on's people are said to be fatally
urt.
Forty stevedores are unaccounted
or. If they were on the steamer it
5 considered certain that they per-
she'd