EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1913, Page 5

EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.

THREE VESSELS DESTROYED

50 KILLED; 80 SERIOUSLY

INJURED

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.! (United Press Association.) New York, March 7. Fifty wore killed and eighty seriously injured at Baltimore by an exj plosion of 300 tons of dynamite aboard the English' steamer Alumchino. Details show that the Alumchine and a scow lying alongside, were blown to pieces. , Tne tug Atlantic, which went to the assistance of those Struggling in ! the water, caught lire and sank, I Another steamer, the Jason, which sought to lend assistance, was riddled by pieces of wreckage which were iiurled in mid-air. ' The cause of the disaster is unknown . Twenty bodies have been recovered in an unrecognisable condition.

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 vessel sank, drowning the majority of those who had escaped the previous hail of debris.

Captain Vandyke, of the Atlantic, perished on deck after a gallant effort to rescue the Alum chine’s crew. Mangled bodies were floating everywhere in the sea. The shock was felt thirty miles away. Hundreds of windows were wrecked. The Lower House in Delaware State rocked, and the members thought an earthquake had occurred.

A FOREMAN ARRESTED. t New Y"ork, March 9. Bomhart, the foreman in charge of a gang of lightermen, has been arrested in connection with the Baltimore explosion. Lightermen accuse Bomhart of sticking his hook in the dynamite, thus causing the explosion. He had previously complained that the men were idling, and sought to show them how to work.