EXPLOSION IN POWDER PLANT
KENVIL, September 15. The Navy and Army, intelligence staffs are co-operating with the police in an investigation into the possibility of sabotage in the powder plant ex-
plosion at Kenvil in the United States. About 30 persons are still missing and are feared dead. It is probable that the death-roll will be 100. Three hundred are injured, 83 seriously. The county sheriff and his deputies raided the German-American Bund camp 12 miles from the scene of the explosion. Then they visited the ruins of the plant.
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Southland Times, Issue 24233, 17 September 1940, Page 5
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90EXPLOSION IN POWDER PLANT Southland Times, Issue 24233, 17 September 1940, Page 5
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