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...sprawling under dusty trees. The 1,500 citizens watched them come & go incuriously; after the novelty wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
...three miles of the kindling wood which had been the water front; scores of buildings were flat or leaning tipsily. Hardly a man, woman or child was un-bandaged. Three hundred and twenty-one men were dead-merchant seamen on the vessels and Negro naval enlisted men on the wharf had simply vanished...
Constitution Wharf Coast Guard travels here Wednesday and Tufts Saturday for B tilts...
...ship moored near by jumped onto a wharf. Another tossed her anchor into her neighbor's rigging. Everything on the dock, including seven fire engines, disappeared. A mile away a householder saw every window in his home shatter at once, found a 28-lb. gold -bar (worth $27,700) on his veranda. An officer staggered, blackened and bleeding, into the Taj Mahal Hotel muttering, "the air-full of arms and legs and heads -horrible-horrible...
Died. Horace Victor Myers, 68, retired Jamaica rum magnate (Myers); in Kingston, British West Indies. He played host to thousands of U.S. citizens on Kingston's famed "Sugar Wharf." Died. Senator Charles Linza McNary, 69, Senate Republican leader; after a brain operation; in Fort Lauderdale...