Show EXPLOSION CAUSES L S MILLIONS KILLED SCORES INJURED AND DEVERAL SMALL TOWNS ARE WIPED OUT ammunition ayaltin awaiting shipment ant to th the a allies and stored on an island in new york day destroyed Dos troyed either intentionally or by accident new york property loss estimated at was wag canoed early sun day by a series of terrific explosions of bf ammunition awaiting shipment to the entente allies aind stored on black tom I 1 island a land in a ai small a ll 11 stripy strip of bf land jutting into new york bay oft off jersey city three ire are known to bi be d dead e ad and at least five are missing scores of per lions 1 ons were injured some of them probably mortally the detonations deto nations which were feltin felt in live five states began with a continuous rapid fire of small shells the blowing up of great quantities of dynamite tri I 1 nitro and other high explosives followed by the bursting of thousands of shrapnel shells which literally showered the surrounding country and water for many miles around fire that started scone soon affee the first great crash which spread leathand death deat hand and desolation in its wake destroyed thirteen te of the huge warehouses of the national storage company on black tom island in which was stored merchandise chand lae valued between and the cause of the disaster had not been determined officials of the national storage company and the lehigh valley railroad which also suffered heavily through loss of property declared however that reports to them showed a fire started shortly after I 1 sunday morning on a barge belonging to an independent towing company t hat had been moored R alongside a dock docia sed heed railroad company to transfer ammunition shipments from trains to vessels in the harbor the barge li it was said was there without authority of either the railroad or the storage company edmund I 1 L mackenzie president ol of the national storage company declared that the plant of his bis concern was WAR valued at while the contents ot of the warehouses probably were worth 1 several officials and empl employed emp loyes cyses of the storage company have been arrested accused of having illegally permitted explosives explosive tobe to be stored where human life wason waa endangered danger id every the pedestal of the statue of liberty on beddoes island opposite black tom was broken and the main door made of iron and weighing almost a ton was blown off its hinges the statue itself however was not damaged except from the rain min of shrapnel which spattered bespattered be Ise it |