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Show REMOVING WRECKAGE Army Engineer Supervising Super-vising the Work in Baltimore Harbor Baltimore, Md., Mar. 10. Supervised Super-vised b) I nilcd States arm) engineer officers the work of removing the wreckage of the djnamite steamship Alum Chine, which blew up In the lower harbor last Friday with heavy loss of life, began today. The hulk oi the wrecked vessel lies about twelve feel below the surface and slightly southward of the main chan-nc1 chan-nc1 opposite quarantine station. More menacing than the wrecked Bhtp Is the unexploded dynamite, sev. eral hundred cases of which are believed be-lieved to have gone down, packed aboard the freight cars on the attendant attend-ant barge The engineers are inclined to believe that the greater part of the six hundred cases of the explosive on the barge js Intact. The work of removing re-moving the wreckage and dynamite may take a week, according to Colonel Colo-nel L H- Beach, the army engineer officer in charge of operations The Federal and local Investigations Into the disaster were continued today. |