Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster
While World War I raged in Europe, America scrambled to supply the Allies with ammunition, and several munitions plants were constructed near the Jersey Shore. The hastily built plants hummed with hardly a mishap until the fateful night of October 4, 1918, when a series of explosions killed one hundred people. Firemen and other volunteers were powerless to stop the destruction as it devastated the Morgan-South Amboy area and terrified the surrounding region. Strangely, though, this woeful disaster has been forgotten by history. New Jersey historian Randall Gabrielan re-creates this terrifying night and its aftermath in the context of Middlesex County's role in the Great War.
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Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster
While World War I raged in Europe, America scrambled to supply the Allies with ammunition, and several munitions plants were constructed near the Jersey Shore. The hastily built plants hummed with hardly a mishap until the fateful night of October 4, 1918, when a series of explosions killed one hundred people. Firemen and other volunteers were powerless to stop the destruction as it devastated the Morgan-South Amboy area and terrified the surrounding region. Strangely, though, this woeful disaster has been forgotten by history. New Jersey historian Randall Gabrielan re-creates this terrifying night and its aftermath in the context of Middlesex County's role in the Great War.
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Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster

Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster

by Randall Gabrielan
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Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster

Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster

by Randall Gabrielan

Overview

While World War I raged in Europe, America scrambled to supply the Allies with ammunition, and several munitions plants were constructed near the Jersey Shore. The hastily built plants hummed with hardly a mishap until the fateful night of October 4, 1918, when a series of explosions killed one hundred people. Firemen and other volunteers were powerless to stop the destruction as it devastated the Morgan-South Amboy area and terrified the surrounding region. Strangely, though, this woeful disaster has been forgotten by history. New Jersey historian Randall Gabrielan re-creates this terrifying night and its aftermath in the context of Middlesex County's role in the Great War.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781614237617
Publisher: The History Press
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Series: Disaster
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Randall Gabrielan is president of the Middletown Township Historical Society and that town's appointed historian. He is also executive director of the Monmouth County Historical Commission, and that county's historian. He is a long-serving trustee of the Middletown Library.

Table of Contents

Forewords Anna M. Aschkenes Verne James 5

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

1 Morgan in Sayreville Borough, Middlesex County 15

2 The Early Explosives Industry and Gillespie Firm 19

3 A World at War 24

4 Building America's Munitions Industry 40

5 October 4, 1918: A Night of Hell 65

6 The Morgan Storage Depot 106

7 The Region after World War II 127

8 A Long Look Forward 134

Notes 149

Bibliography 153

Index 157

About the Author 160

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