The driver of a truck hauling nitroglycerine and the unlucky hitchhiker he picked up, were “literally blown to bits” in 1921 when it exploded in Bonneville, Wyoming, leaving a hole 16 feet deep. Nearly all 75 buildings in the small community were damaged by the blast.
A United Press reporter was aboard the SS Sussex when a German U-boat torpedo blew off the front half of the ship. This is his account of the incident.
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