| Show TOWN BLOWN DOWN BY TNT PLANT BLAST Flames Shower Through 40 Buildings of Establishment SCENES OF HORROR Victims Sprayed With Boiling Acid Crushed By Walls I NEW BR N J 1 forty orty persons dead I and a hundred or more was t tonight a as the tollof of an explosion In the T TNT T plant of the tho ork h showered 0 ered through 40 celluloid of o an adjoining collu- collu loid lold works ork and demolished the industrial town ton of o check on the tho number killed was no As many of the tho victims dead and as could be the ing hia-ing ruins were talt- talt tak taken en to a halt half dozen hospitals and hastily equipped emergency mor e their bodies no so badly and burned that only a few tew wOr wore Identified TRED By 1 12 bodies were ere re- re reported re reported ported reco recovered ered and se seven ven hd I een Identified tentatively Spur Spur- Spurr Spurred r red d by r reports port ot of survivors that thata I a seo i P still lay b beneath the debris soldiers joined I tate state police and In hoisting arc rc lIghts and beginning l an all at p tack upon th the twisted o recke The explosion occurred at II H t a m In the ordnance plant The nitration works had been leaded to tho Ammonite com company pany for tor tho treatment t of anny TNT to be used as agrIcultural er Th The building two t stories feet long lone and of ot hollo hollow lIe construction was as literally blown rom the earth along with the themen themen I men belle believed to hue h been wIthIn It The shock hock as felt for mUes shattering windows I roots and ond toppling chimneys In Inmany I cities On Stat n Island rocked as If 1 In an earth earth- earthquake quake quale I 1 he Ingle destructive blur crushed blast 0 0 b of the a celluloid no novelties man man- man manufacturing works surround surround- the T T plant and rued as I by h shell tiro the encircling d el I Iby of or employee whose hoso little little- settlement little settlement was IlS kno known n as th to ton n of ot Through roofs roof Ind walls upon piles of flimsy celluloid sheets In e everyone cry one of the Nixon how buildings show showered ered embers blazing TNT TNT and acid broadcast by the e ex The blue flames of ot the highly Inflammable celluloid all the structures tures re filled burst forth on the the- heels of the blast like a huge blow torch do down n every Cry one and ev ry- ry within a radius of bundred feet teet LIKE BLE The screams of or men and girls pinned do down b by steel gh der crushed by falling Callin walls of ot tile or caught beneath e severed ered pipe pipelines linea which showered them with odd acid mingled with Ith the erl or housew housewives es and children hose only a a tow fow feet teet from works came tumbling ling down don upon them Men len wounded and frenzied i wIth clothes burned oft and bodies scorched black ran out upon the th road to Ne New Brunswick two mil laay A hun hundred red soldiers hastily mob mob- mobilized mobilised by Major A S 8 Casard asard At atthe the Raritan arsenal were ere speed speed- speeded ed d by automobile to the place ot the explosion almost before the I echo had died aay a ay Accompanied by the arsenals arsenal's ambulances and and hospital corps they were the first to attack t e flames and atal t rescue ork I Later It was discovered t-at t I i tour of ot tho arsenal high explosive I Continued on Pa Three r im OWN BLOWN I UP BY BLAST Continued From rage Page One magazines had been crushed by bythe byth the explosion and the th roots roofs or of two other others blown in tn Fourteen companie a of o firemen helped check the flames which for tor a time threatened to spread to the scores of ot powder ware ware- warehouses warehouses warehouses houses Doctor Doctors and nurses from hos- hos ho hos hospitals in nearby cities were early earlyon earlyon earlyon on the scene seen Numerous rescues rescue Were Wre recorded nurses and sol sol- soldIers soldier sol sol-drs dIers dier necking side sid by side aide amId tue tho smoke moko and nd dense lellow ellow fume which all day rolled up from the tho ruins as aa n tank tonk after tank ot or nitric acid and ammonia burst bunt u 11 TOO ROT T TAn An hour after the th explosion the lilac cc ot Ision M on and nd the th 20 Il agres res or more of buildings which had hod housed the tho 0 1 works looked Ilk like i 1 t sector lector of battle battler r ont Only II a a tow few fragments of wall standing For t two 0 mile miles the narrow rood road from th the tho main was VOl lined with Ith automobiles hub deCI In mud past which rushed fire al apparatus T ambulances hoarse hearses police and rm army cars and people running and crying Those uninjured who ho hail had seen een the explosion were unable to tell what hat caused It Those Thos who were ere In It and sur i nero ro unable to talk It wa was said salt the TOT TNT was part of two million pounds that had been purchased from the lh gos S a Raritan n arsenal by the th Columbia Soh nee corporation and removed I from bIg bin shells II at t the th arsenal The Th powder had been turned 0 orr oer er to the th Ammonite com corn company company pany at lit NiTon Nion whose were ere the first lIms oC of the time blast |
