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A MUNITION VOLCANO
THE LURID NIGHT OF JANUARY ELEVENTH
On the evening of this day the enormous munitions plant of the Canadian Car and Foundry Company
near Rutherford, New Jersey, exploded. The din was terrific, much like a series of gigantic bombardments,
and the fire that followed was so fierce that the efforts of the hose companies were completely
futile.
NEXT MORNING
Where the huge plant and storage warehouses had been there remained only the scattered, smoking wreckage.
In the midst of the fiery circle wero the tri-nitro-toluol magazines, but these were so well pro
tected by their concrete buttresses that they did not explode.