AMERICAN ITEMS
HUGE EXPLOSION
CAUSES GREAT DAMAGE
(United' Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
NEW YORK, April 3
At Philadelphia'' 1 -' stored fireworks exploded prematurely and a series oi crashes, were heard'thirty miles away. Ten persons were killed and a hundred injured. As blast lolloWed blast, heavily motor ears were swept off the roads. A moving .train rocked and thousands of windows in an area of several square miles were smashed. (Pedestrians were whirled oil" tlieii feet. .
Several cf the victims were blown to pieces. - s
OIL GUSHER STOPS. NEW .YORK, April 4. An Oklahama City report states the great gusher was tamed to-day aftei threatening to engulf the,.,; a entire country. The spray from, the well showered the town of Norman fifteen miles • distant. , ■ (
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1930, Page 5
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