Wide Relief Mobilized

Port Arthur and Orange, 100 miles distant, said the blast was audible and that buildings rocked. At Pelly, 27 miles away, a man said the sound "hurt my eardrums."

Houston sent scores of doctors and nurses, and police and firemen. The state sent its highway patrolmen and disaster experts. The Eighth Naval District headquarters at New Orleans said that the commodore, three doctors and sixteen hospital corpsmen had been sent from the Orange Naval Station and others from the Naval Air Station at Hitchcock, Tex.

Without waiting for a call for help, the Fourth Army at San Antonio swung into action, sending a plane to St. Louis for blood plasma. Other planes were rushed to Fort Worth to get 10,000 blankets. A chemical officer was sent with 500 gas masks from the San Antonio General Depot. Nurses from Ellington Field and two navy nurses were helping the injured in Galveston hospitals.

The Grandcamp, formerly the Benjamin R. Curtis, was built in Los Angeles for the Maritime Commission in 1942 and was sold to the French Line in July, 1946.

Texas City is heavily industrialized and a major Texas shipping center. The world's largest tin smelting plant is located here. Petroleum products form a major share of its industry. Cotton, cotton bagging, sulfur, grain, chemicals and other products pour through its ports. It was a major wartime war center.

Its outer harbor is shard by Galveston. The harbor is 800 feet wide and over five miles long, extending from the Gulf of Mexico between two protective break-waters to Boliver Roads, the terminal of the Texas City, Galverston and Houston ship channels. It also is an intersection of the introcoastal canal.

The city is located on the mainland, across Galveston Bay from Galveston and eleven miles from the Gulf.

In commerce, it reached fourth place in Texas ports, with 3,907 vessels cleared and 13,441,248 net cargo tons moved last year.

Техас-Сити, штат Техас, в четверг, 17 апреля - цепь взрывов оттеняется раздутие нитрата Ладена корабль вчера поразил этот порт в Персидском заливе, погибли сотни и были ранены тысячи. Это был худший американский катастрофа в десять лет.

Большая часть стрелы промышленном городе 15000 населения было уничтожено или повреждено. Потеря недвижимости будет работать в миллионы долларов.

Пожары последовали взрывы. Ядовитый газ из взрывающихся химических веществ, как сообщается, фильтрации через область.

Оценки погибших варьировались от 1200 до 450.

Два новых взрывов потрясли город на 1 утра сегодня, ранив многих людей, которые пережили вчерашние взрывы катастрофические. Там не было никаких непосредственных сообщений дополнительных смертей.

Джон Coldron, репортер The Beaumont Enterprise, сказал, что еще один корабль был взорван в гавани. Ранее нитрат загружены грузовой, Верховный объявления, сообщили горение.