CITY OF DESOLATION
Received Thursday, 8.33 p.m. NEW YORK , April 16. Tonight the scene of the explosion . is a city of flames, torn steel and smoking ruhble where the dead are uncounted and the living too dazed and weary to ' cry. Scores of bodies are stacked on benches and tables in a midtown garage and in the High School gymnasium. Dozens oi' emhalmers are at work in the garage where the slow process of identification also goes on. When identification and embalming is completed the body is wrapped in a rough brown blanket and a numbered ticket is wired to it. An' ambulance then takes the hody to the . gymnasium. A mile away black smoke from six roaring fires hillows 5.000 feet into the air and drifts soitthward over the Gulf of Mexico. Pifty acres where city buildings once stood is' now a picture of utter desolation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 April 1947, Page 5
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