Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-05

Continued from Page ons) trians were numerous automobiles whose drivers also sought safety.
 There is no hospital at Morgan. In addition to the twenty-five doctors sent from here with several ambu- lances, all surrounding cities and towns were called upon to provide medical assistance.
 Fire apparatus was summoned from Railway, New Brunswick, Perth Am boy and even as far away as Eliza beth.
 South AmbOy, located a mile and a half from Morgan, felt the full force Of the first explosion, which shattered nearly all the window glass in the place. As explosion followed explosion, the population became panic stricken and fled
 Eight bodies were placed tonight in the morgue at South Amboy and Oth- CTS were being removed from the plant shortly before midnight. It is be- lieved that several more men were in the building where the original eXplO- sion occurred, and that these were blown to atoms.
 The plant, which is being operated for the government by the Gillespie company, employs several thousand men and women, working in three shifts, but officials said that tonight there were only about 500 men in the plant when the explosion occurred. The plant was engaged in loading high explosive shells.
 Following the first explosion, gov ernment officials telephOned to near by camps for soldiers to serve as guards and several hundred. with a detachment of coast guards, were rushed to Morgan.
 The plant, which covers an area Of twelve square miles, comprises many small buildings, situated along Ches- sequake creek. The first explosion occurred in one of these buildings in which T. N. T. was being made and the flames, spreading to other struc- lures, caused a series of further blasts.
 Explanations regarding the cause of the explosion vary, but according to one account, excessive heat was applied to a vat of T N. T. Another account had it that a shell, which was being lifted, fell and exploded.
 The first blast was terrific. It shat tered nearly all the glass in South Amboy, one and a half miles away, and was felt for a radius of nearly ten miles.
 The fire was still burning at late hour. but was said to be under con- uol The property damage has not been estimated.
 The structure first blown up was soon a roaring furnace and a cordon was thrown around it to prevent rela- tives of men employed at the plant irSm rushing into the flames in search of their dead. For hours the firemen- could make no efforts to recover the looies on account of the intense heat
 The scene at the plant was like iil of the western front.
 A young woman employed at the lant as a telephone operator was hCro.ne With shells bursting around her. she stuck to her post, sending out calls for fremen and doctors. Calmly 5io gave directions as Co the quickest method of reaching the plant.
 from all directions came hysterical women and children, whose husbands or iaLners were employed at the works-perhaps in the burning build inc. Desperately these women and youngsters hurled themselves at the suatd, regardless of the danger that lurked in that roaring furnace, with it's quantities of shells as ye- uneN plCdsd Tho railroad trcstle spannins the Bar.tan river and leading to the plant was black with these figures.
 n- rearhed the gates of the plant only to be turned back. tO spend the i.it in the seemingly endless torture f tnCe~t4fufN