A VIOLENT EXPLOSION.
1 . TEN PERSONS KILLED. JJy Telegraph— Press Association—Copyrieht Berlin, July 12. An explosion occurred in an oil store and an. adjoining dynamite factory at Wurgendorf, in Wostphalin. Eight persons were killed and two injured. THE FACTORY DEMOLISHED. (Rec. July 13, 9.30 p.m.) Berlin, July 13. Ten persons were killed and twenty seriously injured in the Wucrgendorf explosion.
Tho dynamite factory was completely demolished, and the human lcmains were hurled a distance of a hundred feet into the neighbouring forest.
Tho explosion was duo to a mistake in tho mixing process.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1179, 14 July 1911, Page 5
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93A VIOLENT EXPLOSION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1179, 14 July 1911, Page 5
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