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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Fire Department Was Involved
On black tom island, there are 70 to a hundred railroad cars that were stopped in their tracks for the night. They were packed with more than a thousand tons of munitions just off the island. There was this huge cargo barge called the johnson 17 It was packed with a hundred thousand pounds of dynamite,. And the fire was just drawing closer. Despite their efforts, at two o eight in the morning, the Johnson 17 caught fire and it exploded sending thousands of pounds of shrapnel through the air. In to day's terms, it would measure five point five on the richter scale, like an earthquake.
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