TERRIBLE EXPLOSION
NAVAL CORDITE FACTORY THREE PEOPLE KILLED DISASTER IN ENGLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] LONDON, June 23. Eleven people are missing and at least three have be- killed and .19 injured in an explosion at the Royal Naval Cordite Factory at Holton, Heath, demolishing one building. A column of bLud-red smoke mounted sky war 1;; followed the bursting of a sulphuric acid tank. The shock was felt over a radius of 20 miles. VICTIMS DISAPPEARED. Received Juno 24, 11.30 p.m. LONIDON, June 24. Ton were killed and 23 injured in the explosion. Some of the victims have totally disappeared. All worked in the nitro glycerine department where the explosion originated. Annihilation crashed upon them with tragic suddenness. The cause of the explosion will probably defy explanation. The shock affected houses for twenty miles around.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 7
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