KENTUCKY TOWN BURNED
COAL STRIKE SENSATION PLANE’S MYSTERIOUS VISIT ONLY TWO BOMBS EXPLODE By Telpjfrsph - Press Asan.- -Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Vancouver, Aug. 11. Two airmen in a monoplane bombed the coalmining area around Providence, Kentucky, where strikes have tied up the properties since April. Bombs loaded with dynamite and charged with iron slugs were dropped. Only two exploded. There were no casualties, although one bomb exploded perilously near a gioiip of workmen.
Intense excitement followed the visit of the unknown plane, which departed northward. The crashing of the bombs could be heard for miles and threw the town into an "uproar.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1930, Page 9
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