DEALLY DYNAMITE
TERRIBLE EXPLOSIOi. AT NEW YORK. MEN KILLED, DROWNED, AND MISSING. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 3, 1 a.m. New York, February 2. A quantity of dynamite exploded at the New York suburban pier. Seven men were killed and seven fatally wounded. Fifteen are unaccounted for. The whole city was shaken. The lighter which was loading the ex-' plosive vanished utterly, and a second lighter sank, two men being drowned. A British barquentine was stripped of her rigging, and sailors killed on her deck. A second car filled with dynamite had its roof blown off, but the dynamite did not explode. A hundred feet of the pier end was demolished. An engine-driver was blown off the footplate and killed in the fall, and several men were blown into the harbor, but were rescued.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 230, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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134DEALLY DYNAMITE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 230, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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