The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-03-14
MANY ARE KILLED
British VESSEL. ALUM CHINE,
AND TUG BLOWN UP BY
EXPLOSION.
RECOVER THlR7YNiNE BODIES
Scores Are Missns-Baree Loaded
With $40 Tons of Dynamite Des-
tined for the Panama Canal
Blast Shakes Baltimore.

baltimore, March 10.--A barge loaded
, with $40 tons of dynamite, destined for
the Panama canal, exploded in Curtis
bay, blowing up the British steamer
Alum Chine, CAPTAIN Anstri, and the
tug Atlantic. Seventy-five men. are re-
ported dead or missing. Thirty-nine
bodies have been recovered.
TUGS Rushed To Scene.
Tugs, hurriedly rushed from this
city, are reporteI to have picked uc
twenty-five men, nergo laborers, all
more or less hurt The captains and
crews of both steamer and tug were
reported among the missing.
The dynamite was being loaded on
the steamer and ;ts hold was nearly
filed with the high explosive. The
shock of the explosion was so great
that Baltimore thought it had been
shaken by an earthquake Great lights
Of glass We're broken in the business
section and some of the skyscrapers
were so badly shaken that the inmates
we're panic-stricken. Goods were
thrown from store shelves and win
3OWs broken in Havre de Grace, six
teen miles from the scene of the explo-
sion.
Annapolis Statehouse Rocked.
The statehoHse st Annapolis was
rocked so violently that Governor
GoldbOrough believed it was about to-
fall in and fed to the corridor outside.
of his Office. At the city quarantine
station every wiDGow was shattered.
Mrs. Richardson, wife Of the doctor IN
charge, was badly cut by the flying
glass.
At the Maryland Steel Company.
across the river, the workers believed
there had been an explosion and fled
from their machines to the street in
terror
The United States collier Jason.
lying in midstream 700 feet away. was
so badly shaken that her cargo shifted
and she was in danger Of capsizing.
Four men on the Jason were reported
Killed by the concussion and it is re-
ported that twenty others are hurt
IL
abont to start on its trial trip. Be
cause Of the nature OF the explosion.
it is doubtful whether the exact mum
Der of dead will ever be known In
many cases it is believed the dead
were blown to fragments.
At Sparrows Point a schoolhouse
was partly destroyed and several chill
dren hurt
Atlantic City Feels Shock.
Philadelphia dynamite eyplo-
sion near Baltimore was remarkable
for the great distance the shock of the
blast was felt. At CoatsviIle, Pa. the
windows in the high school ratified.
startling the students The shock was
felt at Philadelphia navy yard. in
Reading, Pa, nearly one hundred
miles from Baltimore, in several cities
in southeast Pennsylvania and in New
Jersey as far as Atlantic City In
many towns the tremor was so dis
unct as to cause people to believe an
earthquake had occurred The snock
Interrupted the PROCEEDINGS of the low
er house of the Delaware legislatures
at Dover.
New York.-The Munson Steamship
Company, agents for the Alum Chine
received a message from their agents
IN baltimore, saying that the vessel
bad blown up, but that no details were
obtainable The ship was nowhere in
sight after the explosion, according to
the message.
The ship, tramp steamer of 1.7S7
tons gross burden, was owned bv tha
Alum Chine Steamship COMPANY Of
Cardif' Wales. She left New York for
baltimore on Feb. 26. arriving March
]. She expected to sail today for
Colon, with a load of dynamite to be
used for government work on the
Panama canal