Show FOUR THOUSAND DEAD AT EXPLOSION ON MUNITIONS a SHIP IN HARBOR WIPES OUT WHOLE 1 FAMILIES twenty fada thousand mads made buildings destroyed alre following dha bringing further 1 fy A F rodi oil bea persons deft killed tit the find and destruction or it buildings resulting fro froni ali the op loloh oil a i ahlo ill i the li bora thursday tle cember 0 nc ac cardl ig to td estimates estimate by tile superintendent tent lent of w ase duta it iq id to assemble and expose for identification if possible tile tho boiles bodies of those lio ho hj by shock or 01 lie alre wiled tho the ale kobit blacic blew up tit in id the cibor in ili ohe school alone alchu more than 1 children t were eie killed baily aly beven pupils efa alive from tho rula lulus bt ai tile tho the matron mid evea aery child tit nt the protestant orphans orp lians home me are dead of tile the 1600 bodle recycled to bate dato oni only one findt hae been identified defty rive ave meri women omen I 1 and aind children were made homeless hundreds perhaps thousands shousan ds of godles lodie sf hate been consumed by thi and lit iri giorc of cases not aidt bal only bhole whole but neighborhoods liae have wen been wiped out and tho the dame of elf all their dead may indy never bu bo f alvn aren of the naval forces dragged the water ater front froat sunday and te covered tho the i odies lodies or of mallora ta llora 9 9 an and d ivor i 01 linen lanen tife ive property rosi variously esti astl i entea tit nt front from to CUO L 0 probably ni alf prove io vo be n nea minimum flote ships collida Col llda lidd the I 1 corUs Ibn occurred n near ear pier 6 8 fl an fn iio fia 4 lending leading from the liambo ato to 11 I 1 edford basin tile the munitions the mont blanc was bound from new ne york ork for dedford bedford basins hen the relief ship into emoi bound for setti hebi crashed into evl t 1 the alie ilont blanc wits tans pierced on oh the port side hide almost to the engine room ahe the other ship kiich which was na only sa s1 ight li 13 damaged imaged di bucked backed away aay when hen flames fla wel 1 burst out on the munitions ship anil and was v usi abandoned by the crin brewi yi tile the cap attia of df the mot mont blade also ordered his crew to the boang boat ai na lie he realized nil ifil hirvi tiie the men inen reached shor before the tre blast seventeen minutes lateri latar elicit litchi lit cli blew their iship to cletes piet ci wr chea h large laige part of the ank many houses collapse the busan aske of the city iad jus 1 4 bt gun tor tho the day mien tile the tb tta wai as ta 9 its foundations by bi tile ax e i Johi persons te isona in taci streets i ets coq tic kiai lip bodily and h aued to td jhb grouns gio und occupants of office buildings cowered to ered under it a sh ower of falling klass delass aad bri houses in UK tich mond H up ui and cal collapsed burning tenants I 1 ja tit the e main part 61 0 ae alle city ciak whilce tah re edings achl ty of atone stone or tile as td viv til of ofa and most of oi alie in an fn tills this section krio H esq were caused by frying glassi f in the byest and northwest ends the damage johi is iaia more extensive bifid there the walls alls oi p many houses were cio 1 blon 1 01 to bitsi it was as iri richmond 1 lio 1 ever r opposite th the e scope c bt the epli bloh H tile the havoc was nd krea greatest test 1 whole Vl iole blocks of dwellings mostly ot of fradue alfe eie love leveled led flees fires add to tb th horrar street t after street Is in ili ruins s and the structures structures which were 1 wt e by bv the lie explosion were ivere dest destroyed koyei by bres which broke bicke out simultaneously in a ore of places tind which alch it was was 1111 possible to check they lind had heins elvea aai out it Is believed scores of persons who had becq injured by tile the dol collapse lapse of their hotrie perl perished in mhd theIla flannes flatnes toes froni which they were tere belp legs to flee 7 ali after afeei the explosion the st reta in all parts of were filled with freric ed maxile stricken to vt reach alj the 16 ir an endeavor tb escape y was ft raid by p libet hundreds efthem llad abben clif b by ill ho b tit tf ei 0 kai which ailt eils josA in ih tte filch plA section deepa e bad tea seriously cradled le afton the homes s fili haid lay a jo alio were r ft es lind nd to inq DO thomb leej hate hu tl did ki fri thos di rate y injured in iii ane 3 e paca A c I 1 I 1 high with debris were D tale alie alan aled bodah nf nafi ciany komeh bifid c several arc crushed to io death when eky arc hurled against tele ph one it alc by f we ille force of of tn the |