FIREWORKS EXPLODE.
PANIC IN ITALIAN TOWN,
TWENTY PEOPLE KILLED. BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY BIGHT. ROME, Aug. 4. A telegram from Milan states that a lighted candle, falling among fireworks stored in a house in readiness for celebrating the Saints day at Castel Fraud, blew up the building, plunged the town into darkness and caused a panic at an open-air concert. Twenty people were killed and a hundred injured. Ten are still under the fallen masonry. The explosion damaged a church.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 August 1926, Page 5
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81FIREWORKS EXPLODE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 August 1926, Page 5
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