TERRIFIC DUST EXPLOSION
IMMENSE WHEAT ELEVATOR DESTROYED. Ottawa, August 9. A dust explosion wrecked an immense wheat elevator at Port Colborne. Two million bushels of grain wero destroyed and some small steamors and barges were 6unk. Debris was blown a mile and a half away, and tho township was partly shattered. Twenty people were killed. Tho damage is' estimated at.'a million etorling.—Aug.-N.Z, Cablo Aesi. ]
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 271, 12 August 1919, Page 7
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64TERRIFIC DUST EXPLOSION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 271, 12 August 1919, Page 7
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