LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION IN R.A.F. DEPOT
BUILDINGS THIRTY MILES AWAY ROCKED
(Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 27. A tremendous underground explosion in an R.A.F. maintenance depot several miles outside Burton-on-Trent caused a heavy death roll and did a great amount of damage. _ Twenty people were killed, 40 are missing, and many were injured. The explosion rocked Burton, and buildings were shaken and doors blown open at Coventry, 30 miles away. It was heard and felt in most parts of Leicestershire. Many ambulances and fire engines rushed to the scene. Houses miles away were rocked as if in an earthquake. People miles away saw a great flash. Enormous boulders were thrown into the air. The people of Daventry, 19 miles away, rushed into the streets, thinking a bomb had exploded. Eye-witnesses state that the works offices at the scene of the explosion simply vanished. The whole countryside looks as though it had experienced an earthquake or a terrific blitz. There are gigantic craters everywhere. One farm was totally wiped out. Hundreds of cattle were killed.
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Evening Star, Issue 25344, 28 November 1944, Page 5
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176LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE Evening Star, Issue 25344, 28 November 1944, Page 5
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