Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-07-30
Germans Do Not Succeed IN Effort to Reake DeNe W00dM
DIE
IN EXPL LOS|ON
Of AMMUNITION
[Republican A. P. Leased wire1

NEW YORK. July 3o.-Thirty-
three New Jersey City firenen
are reported to have been killed
early this morning by a terrific
explosion in the plant of the Ma
tional Storage company, on Black
Tom island. near Con1munpaw,
N. j., where they had gone to
fight fire. resulting from a ter
rifle explosion Just thirty minutes
earlier.
Nineteen carloads of amnuni-
ton are said to have been stored
on the railroad tracks on the
island. All of them are believed
TO have been blown up.
Edmond Mackenzie, president
of the National Storage company.
said at his home at PiainfieId.
N. j.. at $50 o'clock this morn
ing that he had Just received a
telegram informing him that a
great fire was raging in the plant
OF his company, following an ex-
pIosion.
. The plant of the storage company
consists of about % warehouses and
three or four covered piers, one of
which is a powder pier, and Mr.. Nc
kenzie explained that there was no
combustibles in the warehouse. He
information he had received, that the
explosion must have been in trains
of munitions which had been run to
the powder docks, awaiting removal
on lighters to ships anchored in the
bay. He declared the plant was
valued at about $1,000, 600
Joseph Wilson of the immigration
hospital on Ellis Island. reported to
Manhattan police headquarters at
3:45 this morning that two barges
loaded With ammunition lying along
side the dock at Ellis Island were
ab!aZe from stem to stern. He said
they had drifted down the Days from
the direction of Staten Island Black
Tom Island is about a quarter of the
way from Ellis Island to Staten Is
land. The patients in the Ellis
Island hospital We're ordered trans
ferred TO another island of the Ellis
/ Island group.
Explosions on the barges We're oc-
/ cupying at frequent intervals. al
though none Of them was especially
severe. The fire boat New York is
standing by and efforts are being
made to confine the flames to the
I barge
j All Manhattan Island, Brooklyn and
cities in New Jersey We're shaken
shortly after o'clock this morning by
a terrific explosion. Frantic efforts
were made by the police to locate the
scene of the evident disaster
J The force of the explosion was so
great that thousands of heavy plate
glass windows in office buildings in
/ Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn were
shattered Streets for many blocks in
/ the downtown sections were literally
! StTeWn with broken glass
Thousands of persons swarmed into
the streets in all parts of the city from
! buildings, subway exits and railway
stations running about in a panic
/ Many women became hysterical. Po-
lice whistles were blown frantically but
the police themselves did not know
what it was all about.
The first explosion was followed by
a second at 2:39, slightly less violent
but which again shook all New York
and shattered many more buildings
A report received at , 40 was that
several carloads of shrapnel consigned
to the entente allies and lying in the
Black Tom, where the Eagle Oil works
are located, had exploded. So far as
; known at that hour no one had beer
injured.
Brooklyn police headquarters re
, ported that ten persons had been killed
! in an explosion in the subway at Wash
ington street and Myrtle avenue, bu
the report was unfounded.
Nearly all the fire apparatus il
) Brooklyn was called out in the belle
: that somewhere in that part of tn
, city there was a great fire but no trac
of one was to be found.
i Police headquarters in all borough
received reports of disasters of al
kinds, both in New York and NeV
Jersey. One report was that an oi
ship was blown up near the Statue Q
Liberty.
Another report was that three car
loads of shrapnel consigned to the en-
tente allies had exploded, one after an
other, at Jersey City. Still anothe
was that the Standard Oil. Compan
plant at Bayonne had blown up.
The New York telephone compan
announced at 2:30 that all telephor
lines leading from New York to neal
i by points in Jersey City were dow
a and communication was almost in
=, possible
- Police headquarters in Manhatta
y expressed the belief that many thout
J., ands Of dollars damage had bee
~ caused in this city by the explosio
/ 1t was cOnjectured that the com6in:
~ tions of vaults in the financial distri
/ might have been so seriously damag,
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