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...first only the crew, the longshoremen and the local fire department troubled about the Grandcamp. But as the smoke rolled blacker, some 200 people gathered at the dock to watch. By 9 a.m., the fire fighters, who knew something about the explosive fury of nitrate, figured they had better move the ship out into Galveston Bay. Twelve minutes later it was too late...
Flame & Invisible Force. The next minutes were a vortex of sound, flame and rushing, invisible force. The bodies of the dock crowd, limbs and clothes torn off by the blast, were strewn for half a block. In the ruins of the Monsanto plant, buildings sagged slowly down on 800 workers. In adjacent refineries, gasoline and oil tanks shot up like rockets, walls fell, pipes curled up and writhed like snakes, and black and red fire licked greedily over the ground...
While the Admiral listed the expedition's training, mapping and scientific accomplishments, sailors and river police in motor boats began a wild pursuit of eight penguins that had dashed into the Potomac when their crate hit the dock and split open. At nightfall, three penguins were still at large...
Outside was chaos and the incongruities inseparable from disaster. A terrier bitch whelped beside a dazed crowd at the foot of the memorial to Texas City's World War II dead. A Negro, suffering from concussion after being blown off the dock into the bay, swam back, walked to his blasted home, started patching it with hammer and nails. One man emerged from the rubble of the Texas Terminal Railway Building carrying $10 million in insurance policies in a bedsheet. He turned them over to the police. After dark, the inevitable looters worked the ruins...
...Mormacwave, with Plimsoll marks awash, was warped gingerly into Dock C of Buenos Aires' Puerto Nuevo, and the longshoremen went to work on her. For the riches in her hold, her captain carried 1,700 manifests. His ship, 16 days out of New York, was crammed with machines, parts, motors, industrial tools, tinware, reinforcing bars, steel beams, yarn, toys, dental equipment, books, refrigerators full of penicillin...