The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-01
LmmenSeSupplies of High Explosives In Black
Tom Island Awaiting Shipment By Steamers
Blow Up Destroying $7,OOO,OOO Worth Of
Property and Break Windows Miles Around
THIRTY THREE ARE DEAD
ASSOCIATED Press BY Federal Wireless1


Nj EW YORK July 3O.-Roused sleep by the crash
OF terrific explosion broke windows egions
OF New Workers poured into the
after two o'clock this morning believing accident
had occurred Manhattan hour later
before the news that the explosion which
had wrecked the plant of the National Storage Company Com
munpa" in Newark Bay New Jersey, almost an
air line from city. .r.
Even the details meager 1t reported
that thirtythe emen Jersey City department. ay
trapped the flames indications
are that others have been killed but just how many y
accurately known.
MUNITIONS PLANT VALUED AT SEVEN MILLIONS
Reports from storage company shortly after
the explosion said that
plosves the yards of the plant Black
twenty-five warehouses belonging plant together
several covered used for loading plant
valued at than $oOoooo No estimate the
amage done by explosion has been made be
guessed at until the flames lave been subdud partial nvest
cation made
One of explosion drifting about New
ark Bay and the upper New York Bay barges loaded
with high explosives Two Of these bargs blazing from
and bursting into eruption from time
reached the explosives drd
grafton station One of the fire tugs the department
drag the barges and Drawing the of
death managed to them a safe place.
CONCLUSIONS SKATER THOUSANDS OF WINDOWS
It eight minutes o'clock when the first exp
shook the hole city There seemed Of air
bits thousands of windows all
glass nng below less than
of the downtown sections filled with and
Clothes believing that the explosion had been
only short away Upper New
respond alarm but when few minutes
explosion another almost
exclusive began fill with panicy and
wild with fright and asking each other what meant
Offices and the police and fire
thousands of the minutes that followed
explosions newspapers and the departments
equally in the dark.
TELEPHONES AND STREET LIGHTS FAIL
system badly sections of the
city for long time The lights
failed owing the of the machinery the various
houses by the shock the " crash In the house
district the West Side lamps and most
the lamps shattered Other of the city dark
ness only partly lighted
Inquiries revealed the that the where
and the earchers broadened their field
found communications with Of the
Jersey had interrupted and than
before finally definitely learned what had happened
early declared that the entire plant had been
Of existence by the first explosion and that the subse
crashes from the blowing OF the OF explosives
standing the sdetracks in the yards of the plant
TOWN OF CoMMUNIPAW is DESTROYED
and felt New York The of Communipaw is said
completely destroyed by the FIRE that followed the
Blowing up of the plant.
idea Of the severity Of the Shocks that ratified the
skyapers of this city be had from the fact that fears
that locks Of banks
companies have been dsoated and that will take
safe breakers get them for business Monday
of New felt the Shocks than
York Newark Elizabeth bot reported damage
and Camden &ard tn" explosions and felt the conclusion