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TRAGEDY IN AMERICA SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, June 18. Between 12 and 20 persons were reported killed and 40 and 50 injured to-day when three 20,000-gallon gasolene tanks belonging to the Richfield Oil Company exploded while a crowd of several hundred watched firemen battling with a blaze at the company’s works.
AT LEAST SIX KILLED
JAMESTOWN, June 18, (Received June 19, at 7 pan.)
The police state that at least six people were killed and 15 severely burned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22293, 20 June 1934, Page 7
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