EXPLOSION AND FIRE
EIGHT KILLED, 50 INJURED.
LOSS STATED AT 500,000 DOLLARS
FACTORY DISASTER IN CHICAGO
(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.55 pan.) CHICAGO, October 7. A . message states that eight were killed, fifty! injured and four are missing as a result of an explosion and fire which wrecked the. Golden Soya products factory. , .. The damage is estimated at 500,000 dollars.
Accumulation cf dust or gas is believed to have been responsible,\ Window panes were broken in buildings a mile away, as the explosion lifted the six-storey building, -transforming it into a, wreck of twisted steel and concrete, which Will require a week for the search for bodies.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 305, 8 October 1935, Page 5
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