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, he was ition in a rlt;i 1 of gallvly from retary re-Amonc those known to be misss-associates m return apartment psume his however, had sub-President t day the appoint-i, of Mis-over the s air de-Weeks in lt;3 before rjittee and le by Wil-idier gen-f of the made the I. without •oval, and Presidedt not to do magazine ment avi-charges ild army list rat ion, hough he codtrol of n.thp sec-that thei were increment, g desired d visited%cna and spute be-When he he situa-Hdge, ar-i-old con-; top of 5 of the chetf the’eks wassince his i watch-tic with hillside. ?rai had here the ‘st after Dr. Wih doubedly gton fornorthern-ain towns r, is nor-:aieiy and •itors and ie flags at e groups re- of the unt Pros-arance tor©ure Safering were:Lieut-Commander Edward Allen Browdne, appointed from Massachusetts; Captain Burwell Hayden Clarke, appointed from LittleRock, Ark.: Lieutenant Herman Conrad Schrader, appointed from New York: Chief Gunner Joseph Galeley; R. A. Graham. Forth Worth. Texas; Aliver C. Bliss. Wa-terville. Ohio; Ernest Cowell, Hamilton, Ohio; Maurice H. Hart-dacker. Gall way, Fla.: John A. Little. Leon. X. Y.: Mason D. Eld-son. Evansville. Ind.: Henry D.Machert. Richmond, X. Y.: John AV\ Monroe, Richmond. Va.; Paul AW Morcaux, New Britain Conn.; Frej G. Rachford, Xenia, 6.Roads Are Guarded Roads leading to the devastated area were under close military guard today. Some 400 or 5 00 refugees from the villages of Mount Hope. Hibernia, Rockawav and Denmark who stumbled from their homes as they began to fail Saturday were content to remain out of the danger zone. ■. Army and navy officers in charge of the rescue work said it might be three or four days before the flames would die down sufficiently to permit a careful inspection of the area.One official estimate was that the-refugees from residential areas near the depot totalled 900. of whom GOO are at Morristown and 300 in and around Dover.In many Instances families were widely separated but nearly all had been reunited today. Two cases of fathers stilt seeking- wives and children -were known to relief workers today.The injured numbered about 200, of whom 5 0 were severely but not dangerously hurt.Flames Leaped 400 Feet.So suddenly came the initial blast that precautions for safety could not be taken. A marine who escaped by crawling along the ground after being hurled 40 feel into the air. said that after the flash of lighinin^ he saw flames 400 feet high and the concussion crushed brick and stone ammunition houses like egg shells.There followed showers of 14 and 16 inch shells. They were stacked, officials said on the base, thus causing them to shoot straight into the air. Had it not been thus, the surrounding towns would have been cut to pieces by direct eheil fire. •It's like a. scene from the western front, Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, explained after an inspection of the * reservation from Picatinny Peak, nearby. All evidence of the green grass and shrubbery which had made the place a beauty’ spot, had disappeared, he said * and instead were brown, ghastly shell holes, some of them 100 feet across and thirty feet deep. Buildings smouldered and as the flames, creeping slowly along, reached new supplies there would be a flash and a burst of flames as the shells were hurled skyward. Then the shells would rain down, starting additional fires.ed yarc and oiltprpd aall soi Even crushed A shell iron whundregiant, kOn»In rathe seer to a sm The f pro pert; army c exceed The i near th stroved.two mil ated. ruined which 1 The t and Pai age rar lo brol At Cldale-. XDenmai caused and the der. shell fe ter, 22were fo Inches 32 mile The i and we-York flt; is a su Hope, o affectec mine, traffic ‘ ard vac scene. Exphmorninan hou omclt; 14 aeri millimcazines Jger th* fire th army z troops the cieiBonCLIF —Six r by a b automo to have hood. The ireal est this toi persons riding went of pedestr Chief Singer times f
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Danville Bee
Danville, Virginia, US
Mon, Jul 12, 1926
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