Show NITRATE PLANT BlOWS BLOS UP WITH WIT THIRTY KILLED Explosion vat kat at Nixon Nitration Nitra Nitration Nitration Nitra Nitra- tion Works New r Jersey Annihilates s Entire Family Family Family Fam Fam- ily in Vicinity of Plant I NEW BRUNSWICK N. N J. J Ia March l. l Eight I.-Eight Eight people are known to have I been killed and twenty m more re are believed to be dead while about I p persons were injured In man Inan an explosion explosion explosion sion which destroyed the storage orage building of f the company on the property of the Nixon Nitration Nitration Nitra Nitra- tion work at Raritan near here hele today S One entire family of five living I near the building was wiped out by the force of the blast The rhe building contained one million 1 gallons of ammonia nitrate In storage storage storage stor stor- age and also fifteen tank cars which i held gallons each of ammonia I j nitrate which was in a I crystallization The cause of ot the explosion was not determined The rhe known dead are Mr and Mrs Arthur Dumas and their thre three children John fohn blacksmith employed employed employed em em- by th the company Joseph Adams who vho died In the Middlesex general hospital An unidentified woman Twenty-five Twenty small buildings at atone atone atone one time used by o of the Nixon works but which were unoccupied Unoccupied unoccupied un un- occupied today were destroyed Fire whIch followed attacked two other other buildings and tire lire departments departments departments depart depart- ments from surrounding towns were rushed to the scene Blazing sections of or the exploded building were scattered to all parts of the Nixon property so th t the tire Lire soon became general V |