EXPLOSION AT SEATTLE
NEW YORK, June 2,
The people of Seattle were much alarmed at a mysterious explosion of 15 tons of dynamite at Scow Harbour. It caused £20,000 worth of damage. Almost all the windows in the town were shattered. The dynamite w r as the property of the Russian Government.
The public couple the explosion with recent plottings to destroy Japanese steamers, and see in it a menace of German fanaticism. It is the first material damage within the bounds- of the United States.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 24
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