BLOWN THROUGH ROOF
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S^rvivors, Story of Terrible Experience "THE EARTH SH00K"
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iu, o.-io a.m.; NEW YOBK, March 19. The N©w York Times ' Overton eorrespondenfc says that Lawrence Baxter, aged 16, said he was in tho study hall when the explosion occurred. Suddenly tfie floor rose in a terrible blast like dynfimite. "I was hit on the back of this h©ad by something, and I jumped out of a second floor window. I saw 20 or 30 dead before leaping." Martha Harris, aged 18, said; "The eaTth shook and broken glass came showering down. I looked out of a window of the home economy building, where I was studying and saw my friends dying like flies. Children were blown out through the roof and some hung up there, while others fell to the gfottnd. I saw girls in oiy class jumping oiit of the windows, and my brother Milton, aged 16, jumped and was hatdly scratched, only a little bruised. I will never forget how I saw my playm^tes' bqdies torn. It was horrible." i
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 55, 20 March 1937, Page 5
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