Show CITI IS BOMBARDED 01 BURNING VESSEL EXPLODING SHELLS ON AN AM BOAT CAUSES TERROR TO PEOPLE doat Boat laden with death dealing shells la Is finally removed from reservation er wharf by daring commander of naval tug now new york hundreds of homes in the lie fort Il hamilton amilton section of brooklyn rooklyn It virtually were under heavy artillery bombardment sunday afternoon resulting from intermittent explosions explosion 11 s of st six inch and ten inch shells on a Stef steam lill lighter which caught fire while moored to the aminy reservation wharf gathering together their belongings belonging in ili a i belief that diat the naval arsenal at fort lapayette lafayette a small island islam near fort Il hamilton amilton was ablaze terrified scores fled their homes for safer zones driven to frenzied hasto by tile the series of 01 detonations deto nations which were heard lor tor miles around an official statement from fort Il hamilton amilton said no lives had been lost and that only tour four persons persona had been slightly injured ono one of lie terrifying incidents of the barrage was the yard flight of a ten inch shell clear over the reservation andin and in it a house in port fort Ila hamilton milto n parkway the projectile tore a huge hole bolo in the roof of the dwelling passed through two floors and burled buried itself in the cellar the house occupied by the family of august galpern Gal tern all of whom escaped injury I shaken with the violence ot of an earthquake the lighter which was laden with shells for shipment to boston was torn from its ltv moorings by tho the violence of tile the first explosion two men were on board but they escaped A naval tug soon reached th the scene escene and in a desperate effort to prevent the flames from spreading to the w wharf harf the commanding officer deliberately headed ills his craft for the blazing lighter and its exploding cargo ile he stuck her nose against the side of tho the lighter and pushed her away to a sand bar to in imminent peril of ills own craft being blown from the water the naval tug had scarcely withdrawn when a heavy explosion occurred which tore the lighter apart |