DISASTROUS EXPLOSION
SHOE PLANT WRECKED.
FOURTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. SEVERAL. OTHERS MISSING. . niir-J Fre»iJ Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; (Australian Press Association.) Received 0.55 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. ' A message from Lynn, Massachusetts, states: Fourteen were killed on Tuesday morning by an explosion which wrecked the- shoe plant of the Preble Eox Toe Company at East Lynn. Nine others, who were injured, are in a serious condition, and several are missing. Flames, from the explosion burst into a neighbouring house, killing a woman and her lour children. The others killed are believed to be workers employed by the Preble Box Toe Company.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 November 1928, Page 7
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