EXPLOSION SHOWERS BURNING PETROL
Received Tuesdav, 8.0 p.m. NEW YORK, July 21. Three petrol storage tanks at Minot, Nortli Dakota, exploded today shovvering lmrning petrol over tlie city's industrial area. In the. blaze which l'ollowed two persous wero kiJJod and live seriously hurned. Two oi] stations, three ereanieries, a grocerv store, caf'e, grain elevator and the prertiises oi' an e(|uipnient coinpanv were destroyed. The city's iire figiuing t'orco brougiit tho blaze uuder control after a six-hour battle. The eause of the explosion is unknovvn.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1947, Page 5
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