TRAGIC EXPLOSION
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST BATHERS SUFFER BURNS NEW YORK, 11 Nine persons were killed outright, six died of»burns and others are believed to have been fatally burned as the result of an explosion which wrecked the Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Company 3 works at North Arlington, New Jersey, on Friday night. Tho noise of the explosion was hoard miles away. Flaming celluloid from the skies showered bathers on the beaches in the locality. Panic followed when screaming women and children had their limbs scared as they lay on the sands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21516, 13 June 1933, Page 9
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90TRAGIC EXPLOSION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21516, 13 June 1933, Page 9
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