TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK
SHELL EXPLODES,
EIGHT CHHvDREN KILLED,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
NEW YORK, July 13,
A report from Watertown (New York) states that a Sin shell—a “dud” —fired during artillery practice there at an encampment last summer, exploded, and killed four boys and four girls, tho eldest fifteen years of age. The manner of the explosion will probably never bo known; hut it is believed that the children, who were playing croquet, struck the shell with a mallet. It is known that other “duds” are about, and the police and firemen are making a search.
It is stated that the father of one of the youngsters had found tho “ dud ” and was using it as a door-weight on the back porch of his homo where the children played. The explosion shattered the windows of the houses in the vicinity and in many neighboring squares.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18020, 14 July 1922, Page 4
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148TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK Evening Star, Issue 18020, 14 July 1922, Page 4
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