Bishop James Cannon, who is charged with illegal stock market manipulations, arrives in Hoboken, New Jersey for investigations called by his fellow bishops against him. Bishop James Cannon walks down the gangplank of a ship. Bishop Cannon surrounded by others.
American troops aboard Navy transport at pier. Troops embark on Navy transports at Hoboken.
Liner USS George Washington on the Atlantic Ocean after its departure from Hoboken, New Jersey, bound for the Paris Peace Conference after World War 1. One of the ship's officers looks through binoculars. Two ships in the background (one is likely the USS Pennsylvania BB-38 which accompanied the flotilla). President Woodrow Wilson looks through binoculars. Standing behind him is Rear Admiral Cary Grayson, who was also the President's physician, Two women talk to a man on ship. John W Davis looks through binoculars, a woman stands beside him. The woman looks through binoculars. Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State stands on ship wearing a hat and bowtie and looks around. French Ambassador Jean Aderian Antoine Jules Jusserand sits and talks with two women. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Scenes in Lyndhurst, New Jersey after explosion in the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Kingsland (in Meadowlands of New Jersey) during World War 1. The company built shells for shipment to Russia in World War I. Over 500,000 shells were destroyed in the blast and fire, bombarding the surrounding areas in Kingsland - Lyndhurst. Black smoke rising in the distance, at night, seen from the coast. Close views of industrial buildings and homes on fire. Night views of homes and buildings engulfed in flames. People walk through smoking wreckage afterwards and pick through debris. Devastation covers area flattened by explosion and fire. Twisted railroad tracks covered by debris. A pile of munitions shells in a heap in the burned out shell of a building. View of the D.L.&W (Delaware, Lackawanna & Western) Railroad Shops building at Kingsland (now Lyndhurst), with DL&W train car 605 parked in front. Railroad Shops building is pitted with holes and broken glass from 3-inch shell bombardment. Two men inspect a damaged railroad car with broken glass and a 3-inch shell embedded in the side of the car. A heavily damaged residential house with holes and blown-out windows, and a shell embedded in the front door. Citizens pick through wreckage in front of a building where only cement pilings remain. Scene shifts to Perth Amboy area, October 1918. View of displaced families made homeless by the T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant explosion (Morgan Depot Explosion; largest munitions factory in the world). Refugees sit in a town square. Men, women, and children among the refugees. An Army soldier and Navy sailor seen near refugees as they eat and drink. View of Smith Street in Perth Amboy with shops damaged by the blast. Under Martial Law, U.S. Army troops patrol with rifles to prevent looting. Pedestrians and a streetcar pass. Sign along sidewalk for entrance to Michaels & Co. at 178 Smith Street. (Suspected cause of incidents: Gillespie - worker error; Kingsland - sabotage as in the 1916 Black Tom explosion.)
Displaced homeless people and refugees gather in grassy area near a railroad station, following explosion of the World War I shell loading facility. The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Depot Explosion, occurred in October 4, 1918. The plant was one of the largest munitions facilities in the world at the time. Damage was extensive in the South Amboy and Sayreville area. Clip shows a refugee family posing together, sitting in the grass. Many billboard signs are on nearby fences and a grass and sidewalk area beside railroad tracks. The Perth Amboy Railroad Depot (train station) building on Smith Street is seen behind them (this building has since been moved to Lewis Street). With Martial Law imposed, the next scene shows a Coast Guard or Navy sailor on patrol to keep law and order and prevent looting in front of destroyed shopping area stores on Smith Street in Perth Amboy, including the Reynolds Brothers store (Reynolds Bros), at 134 Smith Street (also 136 Smith Street and 138 Smith Street), where the windows are blown out and debris are seen inside the store. The explosion of the Gillespie plant was one of three similar events in the New York-New Jersey area during World War 1: The Black Tom Explosion in 1916, the Kingsland Explosion in 1917, and then the Morgan Depot Explosion in 1918.
The United States of America in 1917. Scenes of Lyndhurst, New Jersey after January 11, 1917 explosion in the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Kingsland. Suspected cause of explosion was sabotage, allegedly committed by Germans during World War I. Smoke from buildings on fire at night after an ammunition depot explodes. Flames rise high from the buildings. Widespread destruction. Debris on a railroad track the next day. People pick through devastated buildings and barren area flattened by blast. Views of crater filled with artillery shells after the explosion. Damaged window panes of buildings and a railroad car at D.L.&W (Delaware, Lackawanna & Western) Railroad Shops building at Kingsland (later Lyndhurst). DL&W railroad train car 605 parked. Railroad Shops with broken glass everywhere from explosions. Men point to shell that is embedded in the side of a railroad car. View of artillery shell lodged in a door. Next scene is from a different time and place, in Perth Amboy, in October of 1918 after an explosion at the T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant made many families homeless. was called the Morgan Depot Explosion. Homeless women, children, and men sit in a town common area. The refugees eat. U.S. Army soldiers patrolling on Smith Street in Perth Amboy in front of stores damaged in the explosion. Entrance to Michaels & Co. shop among damaged stores on Smith Street.
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