Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-05

Those injured and treated at the
Army hospital at the ordnance camp
are Andrew Szezenik, Sayreville, se-
riously injured, burned and shocked.
and Edward Wagner, of Silver
Lake, injured by flying fragments
was injured by frightened horse
near which he was standing. Others
who were hurt were either attended
by private physicians or at their own
homes and their injuries have not
been reported as serious.
The board of officers investigating
the cause and damage of the expl0-
sion today have before them the list
| of men thought to have been near the
magazine at the time of the blast.
Their task has been made doubly diff
cult by the fact that the explosion
letgo at noon when the men were more
or less free to wander from one build
Ing to another to take their lunch.
A list of those who were slightly
injured is being gathered slowly by
the Post Adjutant Lieutenant l.. X. r.
Jeffords who has sent inspectors to
the various homes of the men who
may have been near the accident.
Only by the most careful and neces-
sarily slow work can the government
hope to complete the list, and 1t Is
said that no report would be obtaina-
BILE until this evening.
MeH WHO were near Lnt bCStiC VI LILO
explosion shortly before the first re-
port was heard say that there were
probably fifteen men in the immediate
vicinity of the ma agazine. Some of the
men known to have been there at the
time have been accounted for as in
jured.
Lieutenant Colonel ]. H. NJ An-
drews, who was off the post on leave
at Philadelphia at the time of the
disaster. hurried back to the camp
early this morning and resumed COM
mand of the post. In his absence
Colonel H. T. Herring was in conn
mand of the post
The cause of the explosion is still
undetermined. and according to an
officer acquainted with conditions at
the camp it would be ridiculous to
say at present what caused the blow
up The dropping of a shell and the
fall of a box of fuses are variousiy
ascribed as the sparks that set the
other materials off.
According to Adiutant Jeffords the
material in the magazine and freight
cars was all of low grade or explo-
sive. The explosives were in small
units in various standard conditions
of assembling. The first blast was of
sufficient force to have killed any men
to feel the full force of it. he said
Reports by Colonel Herring in
charge at 4 o'clock yesterday AFTER
noon that the fire was practically uil-
der control and that there was posi-
lively no further danger brought re-
lief to thousands of persons through
out the entire area that was affected
by the Morgan disaster. The EVE
MING NEWS was kept busy during
the afternoon answering queries and
the greatest thankfulness was tndi-
Gated when it was learned that there
was no more danger.
Former Mayor Alfred Kerr OF South
Amboy reported that rumor had
started in that city that residents had
been ordered to leave their homes.
People throughout this Snd of the
county could be seen on the roads
everywhere. many afraid to- enter
their homes.
The former Home Guard organiza-
ton in the Fords section of Wood
bridge township was called out last
night and did guard duty following
reported robberies. 1t was said that
many thieves had taken advantage OF
the nervous state that the populace
had been thrown into to ransack
houses.
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