DISASTROUS EXPLOSION
NAVAL CORDITE FACTORY
THREE WORKMEN KILLED
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LONDON, September 11, A mysterious explosion in a naval cordite factory at Holtcn killed three employees. A steel pipe conveying acetone vapor exploded, _scattering steel fragments and mutilating the victims, who were standing near. Eire spread and .reached tons of cordite, 'which flared up and shattered the building. Twenty other workmen dashed out and escaped. The lire .destroyed the building m a few minutes. Every window in the other portions oi the extensive factory was shattered.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable,
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Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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89DISASTROUS EXPLOSION Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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