The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-05
6Cepts All the R0i1r /DOWn By President Wilson
DEATH TOLL FROM
 EXPLOSION IS 50
BELIEVED DANCER OF GREATER DEVAsT ATioN FROM FIX.
 PLoSIoNS HAS PASSED.

Perth Amboy Oct 5.-Army officers investigating the explosions which wrecked the great shell loading plant of the T. A. Gillespie company. at Nor gan, estimated tonight that the dead would number not more than fifty and the injured l50
 The property loss will approximate between $15000,000 and $20,000.000
 Late today it was believed danger of greater devastation by the blowing np of stores of Giinitrotoluol was v!r- tually over. All that it left unexploded is buried in underground caissons along the bank of Cheesequake creek, or is loaded on fcur barges tied up at the company docks along that stream.
 Army officers reported after re- conaissance by aeroplane that the To- cation of the boats and storehouses is such that they believed there was s1lteat probability it would be eX- ploded either by fire or concussion.
 With the passing of the menace of an explosion around the plant, the problem of caring for the homeless became serious.
 South Amboy, a town of about 1o,- 900 population, four miles north of Morgan was virtually wrecked by the series of blasts Scarcely q building in it remains habtable Many were unroofed and the walls of others blown in, while every pane of glass was broken.
 More than 400 citizens decided to spend the night there. however.
 The Red Cross has established headquarters at Perth Amboy. Ambu- iances from New York and Newark with corps of doctors and nurses, ar. rived to take charge of the situation Central depots were opened in churches. schools and q her public buildings Communicated automobiles and cars driven by members of the Women's Motor corps from New York and New Jersey, were sent cut to plck fleeing refugees and bring them back 10 the depots fer shelter. The city and all the territory around Morgan was under martial law
 J. w Faust, assistant director of civilian relief of the Red Cross esti- mated that more than 1000 persons had been made homeless by the hail of shells and the force of the eX- plosions He believed between 10000 and 50,000 more had fled from their homes fearing disaster
 After an intermittent bombardmen; lasting nearly 24 hours, the people housed here and in other nearby towns settled down tonight to fitful slumber Many of them had undergone most of the horrors of actual warfare and their nerves were shattered. Not a few were suffering form a form of spen shock. The day was as much Of q night mare as the night which had preceded.
 An airplane for observation purposes arrived late in the afternoon, manned by Maj. IT. f. Armstrong and Captain w. w Watson, of the signal corps. The machine circled again and again around the big tract surrounded with barbed wire to aid the score of armec guards in keeping out trespassers.
 The aero observation showed that five of the thirteen units of the plant had been destroyed by the flames which followed the first explosion but that the 200 plant guards who began fighting the fire with water pumped from Cheesequake creek after tine. water mains burst had the situation well in hand
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