TRAGIC EXPLOSION.
Rain of Flaming Celluloid on
Bathers.
many dead in new jersey,
(Received 0.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 11. Nino persons were killed outright, six •lied of burns and others are believed to have sustained burns that will prove fatal as the result of an explosion which ■wrecked the Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Company's works at North Arlington, New Jersey. The noise of the explosion was heard miles away. Flaming celluloid frov.i the skies showered bathers 011 the beaches in the locality. Panic followed when screaming women and children had their limbs scared as they lay on the sands. 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 7
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