BALTIMORE EXPLOSION.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1866, 10 March 1913, Page 5

BALTIMORE EXPLOSION.

FIFTY KILLED.

UNLUCKY RESCUE SHIPS.

Press Abbh —By Telegraph—Copyright Received 5.5 p. m. New York, March 7.

Fifty were killed and eighty seriously injured by the Baltimore explosion. Later details show that the Alumichine and a scow lying alongside were blown to pieces. The tug Atlantic went to the assistance of those struggling in the water, but caught fire and sank. Another steamer, the Jason, sought to lend assistance, but was riddled by pieces of wreckage which were hurled into mid-air. The cause of the disaster is unknown.

Twenty of the bodies recovered are unrecognisable.

A number of the crew of the Atlantic were killed by flying debris, which included pieces of red hot iron.

The tug Britannia ran a line aboard the Atlantic, hoping to tow her into shallow water, but the tug sank, drowning the majority of those who had escaped from the previous hail of debris".

Captain Vandyke, of the Atlantic, perished on deck after a gallant effort to rescue the Alumichine's crew.

Mangled bodies are floating everywhere in the sea.

AN ARREST. Later. Bomhart, foreman in charge of a gang of lightermen, has been arrested in connection with the Baltimore exposion. Lightermen accuse Bomhart of causing the explosion with dynamite. Previously he had complained that the men were idling, and he sought to show them how to work.