EXPLOSION IN ALASKA
DYNAMITE WAREHOUSE SEVERAL CASUALTIES (Rec. 8 p.m.) SEATTLE, Oct. 12. The Navy announced that a dynamite warehouse at the naval air station at Sitka (Alaska) exploded. A fire occurred at the Sitka base and the explosion was caused when the flames reached the warehouse. The blaze was uncontrolled for two hours, and 6 are dead and 13 missing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24737, 14 October 1941, Page 7
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