FATAL EXPLOSION
SIXTEEN KILLED IN MATCH FACTORY.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIOHT.I
CiUSTIULUN-"NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) KOME, loth xUaici, Sixteen people were killed, and seventeen were injured, through an explosion in a match factory at Corio. The victims were buried in the blazing ruins, where 20 tons of inflammable material including a large quantity of chlorate ol potassium, was stored.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 66, 18 March 1924, Page 7
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58FATAL EXPLOSION Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 66, 18 March 1924, Page 7
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