Without Warning
The Blast Lasted About Ten Seconds. The Spy Hunt Lasted Six Months | Eddystone 1917
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By the next morning the newspapers knew who had blown up Eddystone. It took six months to show how little they knew.
Tuesday, April 10, 1917. America had been at war for four days. Just after ten o'clock, a munitions plant at Eddystone, Pennsylvania, came apart in three explosions, about ten seconds from the first to the last by the plant's own account.
Somewhere between 120 and 139 people…