Terrific Explosion in Spain
Appalling Damage
From Powder Magazine
WHOLE TRAIN DISAPPEARS United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, July 10. As the result of a terrific explosion in a powder magazine at Penaranda de Bracamonte, in Salamanca province, Spain, 80 people are known to have been lulled and 200 injured.
Firemen from a dozen cities, including Madrid, 100 miles distant, are fighting to save the town from tho flames. The entire population of 5000 have been evacuated and are camping in the countryside. The force of the explosion was felt over a radius of 30 miles and people in a neighbouring town were injured. There is no trace of the civil guards and railway officials who were at tho station near the magazine at the time of the explosion. Similarly an entire train with passengers and crew approaching tho station has completely disappeared.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 161, 11 July 1939, Page 7
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