MUNITION TRAINS ON FIRE
Colorado Towns Bombarded (Rec. 9.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 27. Two freight trains loaded with munitions caught fire at Grand Junction (Colorado) and bombarded the town for four and a-half hours, injuring seven persons. The panic heightened when officials sounded the fire siren signal for an air alert. Thousands believed the town was under attack. Shrapnel pierced windows and roofs and damaged houses a mile away.
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Southland Times, Issue 25692, 29 June 1943, Page 5
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