TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONS
ENORMOUS CASUALTY LbT NEW YORK, Oct. 5. At Perth&niiboyy New Jersey, two ■esplosious in, a trkitrotoiuol jflag:aaino destroyed the (.iillespie plant". Over on© hundred- aro missingl. Jtf'ires ar© spa^eading rapidly;. The shock waa ioit in Neiw York. It is believed twenty-five firemen haya lost their Eves. Of tHa thousatid einiployeid only 1 onei hundred are accounted for. SHELLS SCATTERED EVERYWHERE. Scattering! shells axe exploding everywhere. It is estimated that on© hundred lives have*. bem lost, and that hundreds are imjiiral. The plantt w^.s levelled to the gaxwind. ; More than two thousand men werewarkiingi Avhiem the first eaq>losioai occurred. It/was, followed by ai suooefisioni of , greater exploslionsi. Building® w;ore Wowna up on all /aideß. \. '. ■■ s %'
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 2
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