GREAT BRAVERY.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 131, 1 December 1906, Page 3

GREAT BRAVERY.

[Bt Electric Tbuwbaph— Coptbigjstj [Pbb Pbbbs Associvhon.] Berlin, Thursday. There were 20,000 tnlogrammes of robourite stored in the factory situated in a hollow outside Annen, and adjoining Witten. The outbreak of fire occurred in the mixing room, and spread to the packing shed, where tne first explosion took place. Assistance was immediately sent to the scene, when a second terrific explosion hurled the rescuers and spectators in all direction. Many were seized with panic, but others remained and helped the injured away despite rumours that immense quantitids of unexploded roburite lay in the vaults. Firemen, nuns, deaconesses, and workmen courageously faced the peril. First aid ambulances and tradesmen s carts conveyed one hundred dangerously wounded, and two hundred and fifty less esreiously injured to the hospitals. Incendiarbm is suspended. # Several houses in the vicinity were demolished. The houses at Dortmund were shaken to their foundations and plate glass windows smashed Thirty of the bodies were fearfully mutilated and charred. The Kaiser sent one thousand pounds for the relief of the sfferers.