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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Black Tom Island
The two islands that are actually closest here to black tom, which was bedlow's island, of course, liberty island and ellis island. When it was all done, black tom island was almost entirely dest royed. Its pier and its docks nearly completely demolished. And we both saw conflicting numbers of people killed in the explosions. I saw as few as seven. I saw ten. One of those victims was the captain of the johnson 17, whose body washed up on to the shore of jersey city just a few days later.
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