EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.
BUILDINGS WIIECKE I). [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright ) [United Press Association.] (Received Noon.) Mexico City, August 19. The explosion of a car of dynamite which was standing in the street in the suburban district of Tacubay killed or injured a hundred persons, chiefly women and children. Thirty bodies have already been recovered. The explosion wrecked the buildings within a radius of fifty yards, not a single structure being left standing. It is believed the explosion was caused by a collision between a car loaded with iron and the dynamite car.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 5
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91EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 5
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