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An AP story in the Pittsburgh TR: "NEW YORK (AP) -- The sound of the blast was unearthly, and the tremor was felt 100 miles away in Philadelphia. The night sky over New York Harbor turned orange. People were jolted from bed and windows shattered within 25 miles. "The Statue of Liberty, less than a mile away, was damaged by a rain of red-hot shards of steel. Frightened immigrants on Ellis Island were hastily evacuated to Manhattan. "The epicenter of the blast - a small island called Black Tom - all but disappeared in what was then the largest explosion ever in the U.S., on Sunday, July 30, 1916 at 2:08 a.m." <A href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BLACK_TOM_EXPLOSION?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BLACK_TOM_EXPLOSION?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT</A>   Dave
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