THIRTEEN KILLED
EXPLOSION IN STALINGRAD DYNAMITE WRECKS BUILDING CAUSED BY WORKMAN’S CARELESSNESS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 13, (Received February 14, at 1 p.m.) ‘The Times’s’ Riga correspondent states that Moscow reports that an explosion occurred in the office of the German Thyssen concession at Stalingrad, formerly Tsaritsyn, killing ten Russians, three Germans, and destroying the building.
The police report that a workman named Steiger, neglecting a warning, opened three cases of dynamite, a hundredweight apiece, with an iron hammer. The manager left him hammering, and later the explosion occurred. Steiger was killed.
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Evening Star, Issue 19790, 14 February 1928, Page 6
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93THIRTEEN KILLED Evening Star, Issue 19790, 14 February 1928, Page 6
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