Twenty People Buried.
EXPLOSION OF pUNCOTTON
WINDOWS IN TOWN SHATTERED.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Presb Amociation.] (Received 10.45 a.m.) Berlin, May 24. The firing of a cartridge caused an explosion of guncotton in a factory at Dueren. The building collapsed, and twentyone persons were buried in the ruins. Three bodies were recovered, and several are missing. Thousands of windows in the town were shattered.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 28, 25 May 1914, Page 5
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64Twenty People Buried. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 28, 25 May 1914, Page 5
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