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Show CITY 15 BOMBARDED BY BURNING VESSEL EXPLODING SHELLS ON AN AMMUNITION AM-MUNITION BOAT CAUSES TERROR TO PEOPLE. Boat Laden With Death Dealing Shells Is Finally Rernoved From Reservation Res-ervation Wharf by Daring Commander of Naval Tug. New York. Hundreds of homes in the Fort Hamilton section of Brooklyn virtually were under heavy artillery bombardment Sunday afternoon resulting re-sulting from Intermittent explosions of six-inch and ten-inch shells on a steam lighter which caught fire while moored to the army reservation wharf. Gathering together their belongings in a belief that the naval arsenal at Fort LnFayette, a small Island neat Fort Hamilton, was ablaze, terrified scores fled their homes for safei zones, driven to frenzied haste by the series ot detonations which were heard for miles around. An official statement from For Hamilton said no lives bad been losl and that only four persons had been slightly injured. One of the terrifying incidents of the barrage was the 440-yard flight of a ten-inch shell clear over the reservation reserva-tion and In a house in Fort Hamilton parkway. The projectile tore a huge hole in the roof of the dwelling passed through two floors and buried itself in the 'cellar. The house, occupied oc-cupied by the family of August Galtern. all of whom escaped Injury, was shaken shak-en with the violence of an earthquake. earth-quake. The lighter, which was laden witL 000 shells for shipment to Boston, was lorn from its moorings by the violence of the first explosion. Two men were on board, hut they escaped. A naval tug soon reached the scene and, in a desperate effort to prevent the flames from spreading to the wharf, the commanding officer deliberately delib-erately headed his craft for the blazing lighter and its exploding cargo. He stuck her nose against the side of the lighter and pushed her away to a sand bar In imminent peril of his own craft being blown from the water. The naval tug had scarcely withdrawn with-drawn when a heavy explosion occurred oc-curred which tore the lighter apart. |