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  • DYNAMITERS THREATEN SHIPS: Infernal Machine Found on Pier and Submerged Just in Time

    05/10/2018 8:08:37 AM PDT · by NRx · 23 replies
    New York Tribune ^ | May 10, 1903 | Staff
    In a plain pine box about the size of a small trunk an ingenious infernal machine containing one hundred pounds of dynamite was found on the pier of the Cunard Line less than one hour before the steamer Umbria sailed for Liverpool. According to Superintendent George E Murray of the department of combustibles the prompt discovery and immediate immersion in the water at the end of the pier by the detectives who found it was all that prevented the explosion of the dynamite and the destruction of the pier, with the many persons who had gathered to sail or bid...