FIREWORKS EXPLODE
Causing Deaths And Injuries (Received 3, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 2. A message from Nampa, Idaho, states that two children and a woman were killed, and 20 persons injured, 12 critically, through an explosion of fireworks dispdayed on 'a shop counter in connection with the fourth of July celebrations. Someone tossed a lighted firecracker on to the counter and the explosion and resultant fire trapped 30 persons in the huilding. Some leapt from the second storey, sustaining broken limbs. Pedestrians forced a way into th,e shop and rescued many badly hurt children.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 5
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