ARMS FACTORY DISASTER
AT LEAST 55 DEAD VICTIMS MOSTLY GIRLS TRAGEDY IN ITALY (Kloc. To). Copyright—United Press Assn.) ■ROME, July 27. At least 55 persons, mostly girls, are believed to be dead as the result of a series of explosions in the packing department of a munition factory at' Varese, where the production of bombs, fuses cud hand grenades for the Abyssinian expedition necessitated an augmented staff. The explosion was so terriffic that debris and fragments of bodies were tiling great distances, and windows were smashed miles away.
A pall of smoko and fumes hampered the rescue work, which soldiers and Black .Shirts immediately began. It i s believed that nobody working in the department escaped death. An eye-witness relates that a great sheet of flamy went up from one shed, accompanied by a deafening report which was echoed as neighboring sheds exploded. Weeping crowds surrounded the gates, seeking new's of their relatives.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18770, 29 July 1935, Page 7
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153ARMS FACTORY DISASTER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18770, 29 July 1935, Page 7
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