Munition Trains Afire
NEW YORK, June 27 f| Two freight trains loaded with'-; munitions caught fire at Grand JunqL|s§ tion, Colorado, and bombarded town for four-and-a-half hours, injuring seven. Panic was when officials sounded the fire siren || a signal for air alert. Thousands be-;.’' lieved that the town was under -at*.% tacks. Shrapnel pierced windows; and ?J----roofs and damaged houses, a mile y away, .r.-/':
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Northern Advocate, 29 June 1943, Page 3
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