53 HOMES DESTROYED
Fire in U.S.A. City 200 PEOPLE INJURED. (Received July 31, 9.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 31. A fire, following on a series of explosions, in paint works at Camden, in New Jersey, killed five persons and injured no fewer than two hundred persons. * ; ..< :
The fire destroyed fifty-three residences. It has left a thousand homeless.
The damage caused is estimated at two million dollars. Martial law has been declared at Camden to prevent looting. The works officials denied there was sabotage, which had been rumoured.
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Grey River Argus, 1 August 1940, Page 8
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