Maryland ex rel. Goralski v. General Stevedoring Co.
District Court, D. Maryland
•In Admiralty. Suits by the State of Maryland, to the use of Frances Goralski, widow, and Mary Goralski, infant, Joseph Gielner, and Andrew Gielner, against the General Stevedoring Company, the Joseph R. Foard Company of Baltimore City, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, and the Munson Steamship Line, and by Gustav Lies against the same respondents and the Maryland Steel Company, with sixteen other cases.
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•In Admiralty. Suits by the State of Maryland, to the use of Frances Goralski, widow, and Mary Goralski, infant, Joseph Gielner, and Andrew Gielner, against the General Stevedoring Company, the Joseph R. Foard Company of Baltimore City, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, and the Munson Steamship Line, and by Gustav Lies against the same respondents and the Maryland Steel Company, with sixteen other cases. Decrees for libelants against the General Stevedoring Company and the Foard Company, and for the other respondents.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
On the morning of March 7; 1913, the British steamship Alum Chine lay at anchor in the quarantine anchorage of the port of Baltimore. It was to the westward of the Ft. McPIenry Channel leading to the city wharves. It had nearly 300 tons of dynamite on board. A score of men were busy stowing this cargo in the forward hold. Two or three minutes before 10:30 there was an explosion in their midst. It sounded something like the report of a pistol. Two or three of those nearest' it were slightly hurt. All *54in the hold were frightened. They clambered to the deck. The tug Atlantic…
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