Arizona republican., 1913-03-08
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 and sweeping them like a rain of heads and limbs were torn from their bodies. Blood was everywhere. Ships and launches nearby and the dismembered bodies were flung about Atlantic decks Captain VanDykc gave his life for his gallantry. His body with one arm severed, was among those recovered and one of the first identified. With him died Joseph r Hood. a stevedore who had been rescued from the Alum Chine and Robert Diggs, a member of the crew. Those who escaped death from the explosion brought vivid, but disconnected accounts when they reached the city with dead and wounded. J. B. Thompson, captain of the new Collier Jason, which tomorrow was to have taken her trial trip had a narrow escape, when the flying bodies and dynamite crush ed on the JasOn's decks and eX ploded He said he had seen the smoke issuing from the Alum Chimes hold.
 II was warning the men of their danger" Captain Thompson said to- night, "bccause I knew the ship was sure to blow up. He had already gone below and instructed the chiet engineer to get steam and set under headWay at once He was thus en- gagged while l ordered ancher up l was standing near the Ventilator when | was tossed into the air fully six or seven feet. turned two or three somersaults The rail
 ing kept me from going overheard
 In another instant terrific show cr of pieces of iron of all sizes some pieces as large as my fist and others as big as my head came flying down from the air saw these pieces go straight through the heavy plate The huge smoke stack of the Collier was riddled, and smashed almost flat by the concussion.
 Around me on all sides were men who had been tossed into the air and thrown back. Many men Were cut and injured by pieces of iron Some were killed instantly. The dynamite ship was an iron craft throughout and this made the dam age to our ship all the greater. The Alum Chine was about 500 feet away. but the force of the explosion was so great that our ship was lifted almost out of the water
 Our firemen. who were shoveling coal. got the full force of the eX- pIosion in their faces. Many of them were burned. We had about one hundred men of the crew aboard
 'Immeditely after the accident an inspection showed many holes in 1 the Jason's sides.
 Besides sixty or seventy laddies known to be on the Jason, there were some stevedOres the exact num- 1 br of which Martin did not know. ! F. J Ansly captain of the Alum l Chine was in this city on business
 when the ship was blown up He l could assign no cause for the dis aster. The general theory of the l cause is that tEere was fire in 1 the ships coal bunkers, which spread | to the dynamite in the hold. although some believe in spontaneous com | buStiOn Most of the Alum Chimes i crew were from Cardiff For a ra- dius of miles the shock of the eXplO- 1 sion was felt. Reports came early l from many cities and towns, where | windows were shattered and at first
 it was rumored that disastrous l earthquake had done much damage | in Baltimore. It is said the entire l state of Delaware felt the shock. 1 n,-l- i Captain of the wrecked tug Allan l tic lost his life heroically rushing | to the aid of the imperiled British l seamen on the dOmed Alum Chine
 i.e came alongside the burning yes
 sel, and the sailors jumped pcll
 mell into the tug. He wheeled and
 started for safety when two sailors | left behind cried piteously. He again
 turned the Atlantic's proW toward the | - nm Chine and took the sailors
 aboard and as he was leaving for | the second time the mighty explosion occurred.
 l Conservative estimates place the 1 actual property damage in excess Of l six hundred thousand dollars. In ad dition, there were innumerable minor | losses not to be estimated.
 The chief losers are the aWners
 of the Alum Chine which cost il
 the neighborhood of $375,00O and the