Fourteen Killed : Nine Badly Injured
Terrific Explosion Wrecks U.S. Shoe Factory
(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Servtcej
Received 9.5 a.m. LYNN, U.S.A., Thursday. FOURTEEN people were killed and nine are in a serious condition as the result of an explosion which wrecked the shoe plant of the Preble Box-toe Company at East Lynn on Thursday morning. Several others are missing. A flame from the explosion burst into an adjoining house, killing a woman and her four children. The other dead are believed to be workers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 9
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