PITTSBURG EXPLOSIONS.
— : ♦ . DEATH-ROLL TOTALS 200. LARGE ARff WRECKED. (Elec. Tel. Copyright— United £ress Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.* NEW YORK, May 19. It is estimated .th^ats at least. 200 people, were killed m the Pittsburg €xpl6sion'. v A large area, was wrecked, The rescuers, were handicapped by' noxious g^ses and ihe heat. Debris -was thrown great distances. Many of those wounded may die. Tliere were many explosion's m quick succession, and some. r ,of the, : rescuers perished. . . •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3
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