TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
CATASTROPHE IN SWITZERLAND NITRIC ACID FACTORY IN FLAMES. THIRTY BURNED TO DEATH. London. July 22. The “Daily Express” Geneva correspondent states that a nitric acid factory exploded at Bodio and that fire 1 Is threatening two other factories with ' reservoirs of ether. Thirty persons were burned to death t and 100 were terribly injured. Every window in Bodio was broken.] Special trains with doctors and nur-l ees rushed to the scene, but were in- | able to approach the fire owing to the' presence of poisonous gases.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 182, 25 July 1921, Page 5
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