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Show BLASTED AREA IS LIKE WAR FRONT ARSENAL GROUNDS DISCLOSE A SMOULDERING INFERNO OF WRECKAGE Damage Done By Blast Put At $100 000,000 By U. S. Experts; Casualty Cas-ualty List Shows Ten Am Dead Dover, N. J. Seven bodies were discovered Sunday in the area devastated devas-tated by the explosion of the naval ammunition depot at Lake Denmark. The bodies were not brought out ot ' the guarded area due to the continuing danger from bursting shells. In addition addi-tion to the seven bodies three other persons are known to be dead and upward of twenty are missing. Damage to the naval arsenal and adjoining Picatinny arsenal on the army reservation was estimated by army and naval officers at approximately approxi-mately $100,000,000. Stores of munitions muni-tions at the naval depot were valued at $S7, 000,000 and Secretary of War Davis, after an inspection of the army reservation, said that a conservative estimate of the damage there was $5,000,000. Refugees from villages surrounding the arsenals are gathered in towns outside the area of destruction, where they are being cared for by the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other relief re-lief organizations. At Morristown fourteen persons still are in hospitals and between four hundred and five hundred refugees are being sheltered. Another large contingent of those driven driv-en from their homes by the explosions is at New Foundland. Most of the injured marines were removed to the Brooklyn naval hospital, hos-pital, among them Captain O. C. Dowling, commanding officer of the naval depot. Captain Dowling was blinded while fighting the fire following fol-lowing the first explosion. An operation opera-tion was performed in an effort to save his sight. |