What the records say
- When
- 1918
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 40.46° N, 74.29° W
- Description
- explosion at an ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, United States in 1918
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion
1918 explosion at American ammunition plant
The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion or similar titles, began at 7:36 pm EDT on Friday, October 4, 1918, at a World War I ammunition plant in the Morgan area of Sayreville in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in New Jersey kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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