Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-04-19 | Page 2 | Texas Blast

TEXAS BLAST Continued from Page One the city before relatives could identify them The mayor did not say how many bodies were were thus removed I The slow process of recovery was made more arduous by the mangled condition of or the bodies Ive been bringing out the pieces all day said John A. A RIos Rica a Galveston longshoreman i iguess I Iguess Iguess guess they add up to ab about ut two people I only found one whole man and he was burned blackI black I dont don't see how anything could b be worse than this I William Wllliam C. C Barnard an Associated Asso Asso- elated Press reporter probed a are re restricted restricted area in the o of Monsanto's huge plastics building He said I Smoke and flame heretofore had kept rescuers away from th the ruined plastics bull building ding A part o oit of it still stood a gutted smoking skeleton framework but th the greater part of th the story six-story buildIng building building build build- ing was Just a mountain of rubble and twisted steel Three Tanks Burn Bum Three oil tank fires blazed defiantly defiantly defiantly de de- de- de and a number of smaller smalle fires continued to burn At the coast luard tion lion hearing Friday a a aut custom custons ut s agent testified there were 16 cases of ammunition aboard the Grand Grand- camp William T. T Butler r technIcal technical technical cal adviser to the board said sue such ammunition was not riot considered dangerous cargo although nitrate which also was being loaded could be dangerous Edward Westerman manager o othe of the E. E S. S Binnings Co agents fo for forthe the French owned government ship told investigators investigators' that longshoremen longshoremen longshoremen long long- had loaded approximately approximate approximate- ly 2300 tons of ammonium nitrate on the ship on the day before th the explosion