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MUNITION WORKERS KIDDED. WOMEN TERROR-STRICKEN. (Pr«M Aaacdatloo —By Telegraph—lJopyright.j WARSAW, January 22. Forty persons were killed or seriously injured by an explosion in a munitions works, caused by a short circuit of an electric wire. Sparks fell in the explosives room, where men and women ■were employed. The dresses of thirty women were set on fire. They rushed about terror-stricken, resembling living torches. Many jumped from the windrows, breaking their arms and legs. Panic followed in the rest of the buildag.—The Times.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19696, 25 January 1926, Page 9
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84SERIOUS EXPLOSION Otago Daily Times, Issue 19696, 25 January 1926, Page 9
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