WRECKED BY .EXPLOSION
lOWA ORDNANCE PLANT BURLINGTON (Iowa), (Rec. 9 p.m.) Dec. 12. A heavy explosion wrecked an lowa ordnance’ plant to-day, destroying a shell-loading unit and killing nine workmen and injuring 20 others. About 50 men were employed in a threestorey structure which was used for melting T.N.T. before mixing with other ingredients in shells and bombs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24790, 15 December 1941, Page 6
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