If you are looking for a solution to your problems, Dr. Joseph Wilson, of the immigration hospital on Ellis Island, reported to the Manhattan police headquarters at 3:30 this morning that two barges loaded with ammunition lying alongside the lock at Ellis Island were ablaze from stem to stern. He said they had drifted down the bay from the direction of Staten Island. Black Tom Island is about a quarter of the way from Ellis Island to Staten Island. The patients in the Ellis Island hospital were ordered transferred to another island of the Ellis Island group. Explosions on the barges were occurring at frequent intervals, although none of them was especially severe. The fireboat New Yorker was standing by, and efforts were made to continue the flames to the barges.

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NEW YORK, July 30.?All Manhattan Island, Brooklyn, and cities in New Jersey were shaken shortly after 2 o'clock this morning by a terrific explosion. Kraut efforts were made by the police to locate the scene of the evident disaster. The most reliable report received up to o'clock was that the Eagle Oil Works, located on a peninsula extending from Manhattan Island, N.J., into New York Bay, had blown up.

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The force of the explosion was so great that thousands of heavy plate glass windows in office buildings in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn were shattered. Streets for many blocks in the downtown section were literally strewn with broken glass. 