Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1947 — Page 2

Li United Press Staff Correspondent A ; CITY, April 17.—This is a city of dead and storjes of miracuStaff Correspondent Robert E. Brows and I had

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arms and hands torn off. One had half his face gone but he was still on his feet,” Joe said. ‘Horrible to See’ The ‘boys were helping check casualties, “It was too horrible to see people go to pieces right in front of us,” Joe said. - The disaster area is sealed off by police and deputy sheriffs guarding the road. Silent guardsmen with fixed bayonets stand one to a block. I was stopped four times en route here from Houston and asked for press credentials. ya No attempt was made to stop the oil fires. They burned themselves out, - ; The digging out revolves ‘around

|the stucco and brick city hall in

the center of town, where orders are issued and a first aid station has been set up. A loudspeaker in front of the building blares:

dock. Will more workers return to the dock and help remove the| bodies just located.” It is silent, then it says: i “We need two more doctors here. |

By order of the mayor, no liquor has been sold since yesterday morn-! ing. B. C. Powell, who operates a local drug store; closed .and went at dawn today. .

“More volunteers needed on the

_..T'm cleaned out, down to the last’ bandaid,” he said.

aid to agriculture—turned its other

inflammable industrial town.

largely from petroleum. It is a center of great oil tanks, containing crude oil, gasoline, aviation fuel and other petroleum derivatives, stored for tanker shipment or for use in local refineries or chemical plants. Oné of its chemical plants is that of the Monsanto Chemical Co., said to be the first to suffer from the

The fire is reported to have

Usually Harmless Fertilizer Touches Off Texas Disaster

aboard the French ship in the harbor at Texas City yesterday. It destroyed the vessel and.triggered the destruction of a highly

Texas City is in the heart of a chemical area making products

trate—usually a harmless | face to the world when it exploded |

needs no ouiside source of oxygen) to burn or explode. It was the ex-| plosive that wrecked Oppau, Ger-| many, in 1926. This chemical is the basis of! several explosives of great power.! Ammonal is a mixture with fine aluminum powder. | In exploding the aluminum is oxidized creating great heat. } Amitol is a mixture of ammonium | nitrate and TNT. Millions of pounds of this mixture

“|was used in both world wars.

Used in Fertilizers

production in America is over 100,000,000 pounds annually. In fertilizer mixtures it is relatively harmless. What is familiarly known as “laughing gas” and technically nitrous oxide can he made by heating ammonium nitrate at a relative-! ly low temperature to avoid explosion.

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mixed with liquid anhydrous am-!| mona.

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At 9:15 a, m, the ship blew sky high. Hundreds were killed and inJured by the first blast. The explosion scattered “shrapnel” over a wide area. One piece plunged through an automobile two miles away and killed two occupants, A telephone operator flashed Houston to “send the Red Oross— Thousands are injured.”

More Blasts Follow The 30-acre Monsanto Chemical

plant on the waterfront caught

fir.. Blasts ripped the waterfront for hours,

Doctors, nurses and Red Cross

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City, Mo. wright arrived to direct the 4th army's yelief work. : A garage was converted into a temporary morgue, and a high chon gymnasium into a funeral parlor.

. At 9 p. m, fires still were burning,

A pall of smoke hung over the ene tire port area. The Monsanto plang and other buildings had become smoldering ruins. ‘ City officials sald they believed the area at last was safe. Rescuers with bulldozers worked to clear the wreckage. y ,

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