BIG EXPLOSION AT EDDYSTONE.
MUNITIONS FACTORY BLOWN UP.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Services.) Received April 11, 8.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, April 10.
A Philadelphia telegram states that the Baldwin locomotive and munitions factory at Eddystonc has been destroyed by an explosion. There Tire many dead, and hundreds of injured. Buildings in Philadelphia were shaken. The guards at the Capitol have been increased in consequence of reports a* to plots to blow up Congressional ings50 DEAD, 300 INJURED. Received April 11, 9.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, April 10. It is estimated that fifty are dead as the result of the Eddystone explosion, and three hundred in j tired, mostly women.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15191, 11 April 1917, Page 5
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106BIG EXPLOSION AT EDDYSTONE. Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15191, 11 April 1917, Page 5
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