Show ar adventurers 4 1 S CLUB roar of the blast by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter au hear a lot of talk about hades boys and girls y but h in 1 opinion the place is overrated ive seen a few places place 1 J s r ight I on earth that make the devil s well known backyard look like 11 penthouse on the top floor of paradise tr and this story from james C keles kel es Is about one of them fah men eighteen years old he took a wall walk through that hades and his story ni aito jito of 11 which lie he Is going to tell us Is today makes him a distinguished adventure adv of the i bj 1 ranking member of our club stand by then while jim n D A to you hot off the griddle w it where Is hades well in october 1918 it was at morgan N a few miles from south amboy maybe you remember how in the t h bast i j days of the world war a hunk of concentrated hades broke loose down there and turned the whole neighborhood upside down for a week we wa more I 1 mean the time the big munitions works went up the that shook new york 20 miles away tx ex jim kekes was in that right from the beginning he was orlin i shell loading plant had just finished for tile the day and etith N ith a couple of afi latte fellows was walking al kIng down tile the hill toward the highway ay when i ath was back to the ground by something that felt like a ter terrific rifle in 04 M explosion knocks people down like tenpins Ten pins the impact was as followed by a thunderous roar and then jim noti notice oNga ii the other two to fellows had been thrown to 0 o the ground too lie ile knew then her before lie he looked up that an explosion had occurred in one of 0 the mai lite 1 tortes of the plant before them smoke was pouring from a factory near the gate it more explosions followed the first and while the ground rocked around them all three men were seized with an indescribable fear the plant was built over a huge area its several factories being spaced hundreds of yards apart the whole yard was surrounded by a high wire fence fn an and the only gate was the one toward which they were headed out but in order to reach that gate they had to pass the burning fact factory oryl in which explosions were occurring at the rate of two a minute well all became panic stricken jim sais we saw guards indent and tm time workers or kers coming coining out of the plants and running tor for their lives la in erg enn direction ily two companions fearing they would never get through began to run in another direction excited jim runs right toward death cut but in my excitement I 1 notice thern them go and notice that if running toward the gate I 1 was nas also running straight toward the fire thep 41 oe I 1 Y 14 i el A hunk of concentrated hades broke loose was between two plants from one of which the explosions were conic corda i notice where I 1 was until I 1 found myself rl right bl between alea in factories in fact jime kekes realize where he was until he h was knocked down by an explosion that was almost on top of him rt 81 found himself between those two factories just at the moment wh the second one caught fire from the first and began to add its dia b the turmoil the ground between those two buildings was like a battle field the flames had gotten into a magazine and shells were flying in every direction bursting all over the strip of ground on which 1111 h 1 I lifted myself up jim says trembling alth ith fear but make the most of my chance if there as a cliance chance at all chills bere ekrol up and down my spine the cot cold sweat had me I 1 was weak from trip I 1 pulled myself mi self together and with all ane strength in me I 1 started the gate it seemed as it if I 1 was being shot at from all directions arm alt look around me ine I 1 just kept running and running running through a rain of exploding shells ri it was a quarter of a mile to tile gate and jim sprinted the cistand his eyes halt half shut expecting any minute to be struck and killed i al that distance lie was knocked down hy by explosions and each time be M ha he binl had gotten aha the alfoth death blow larm at ot lift last allt cut but ho he picked himself UP a S ed on staggered stagger hewa wal it took him several minutes to reach the gate but at i last he n wil through it and out on the highway the rain of exploding exploder ig shells shei to almost as bad there as it had been inside but here he had a chance 0 jump into some sort of a vehicle and get away cut but there any vehicles there when jim 90 got t to the hundred 6 ra started d running down the road afoot ile ie had gonea gone about laou b t it a arti 0 a when lie heard something coming behind him and tur turning sa speeding in ills his direction to ablio K jim waved to the driver but the driver pal paid d no attention he was in just as much of a hurry to get out of t the he neighborhood belg toed ned to t etril jim was then jim stepped to the center of the load aei chit board get aboard that truck if he had to jump onto the running it was going full speed then the truck was almost on top of him when jim leaped ito missed ills his hold and landed sprawling in the road lie he rode away piled ei hip 4 but it cost him a busted leg to do it IL the driver stopped then gnei J 1 abich ibich i and carried him to a hospital and it was vas pretty tough luck me be isle y 0 ji to get all the way through a quarter mile stretch of hild hades only by a gasoline wagon q service |