U.S. CHEMICAL PLANT
DAMAGE BY EXPLOSIONS
BELIEVED ACCIDENTAL
NEW YORK, October 5.
A message from Terre Haut, Indiana, stated that three explosions in the Commercial Solvent Company's chemical plant shook the city. The late of ten persons in the plant was unknown. Six tank cars loaded with alcohol were near a blazing building and could not be removed because of the heat, and further blasts were feared in a 20-acre lot which contained numerous tanks of chemicals.
A later message stated that at least one person was trapped and was believed to have been killed, and nine others escaped. An explosion blasted the company's main building.
Officials expressed the opinion that the explosion was accidental.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 6
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