FORTY PEOPLE KILLED.
MUNITION WORKS EXPWSION.
MANY JUMP FROM WINDOWS. WARSAW, January 22. Forty persons were killed or seriously injured by an explosion hi a munition works' caused by a short circuit of an electric wire.
Sparks feW in .the explosives room, where men and women were employed. Tiie dresses of 30 women were .s,et afire. They rushed about terrorstricken, resembling living torches, m.a,ny jumping from the windows, breaking their arms and legs. A' panic followed in the rest of the building.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4930, 25 January 1926, Page 2
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82FORTY PEOPLE KILLED. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4930, 25 January 1926, Page 2
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