AMERICAN DISASTERS.
{Received To-day, at 5.20 a.m ) New York, Last Night. Two explosions occurred at the Rand Powder Works at Unionstorrn, in Pennsylvania. Twelve bodies have been recovered and thirty-five are missing. Scores -were injured and ten buildings were reduced to matchwood. Buildings were wrecked within an area of a mile, and windows were broken within an area of seven miles. A grain elevator in Chicago, containing a million and a-half bushels, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at a million dollars.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8242, 11 September 1905, Page 5
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85AMERICAN DISASTERS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8242, 11 September 1905, Page 5
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