TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
IN A CUBAN TOWN.
ONE HUNDRED PERSONS
KILLED.
United Press Association—By Electric Tdcjraph Capyright, LONDON. May 21. A terrific explosion of dynamite, attended by shocking mortality and mutilation, has occurred at Pinar del Rio, a town of Cuba, 97 miles frcm the capital, Havana. The dynamite was in the possession of the Railway Department.Owing to racial disturbances in Pinar del Rio, it was ordered that the Department's explosives be transferred to the military barracks. The explosion occurred while the transfer was in progress. The number killed is one hundred, and the same number is reported as injured. Some mangled bodhs were found a mile distant.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 23 May 1910, Page 5
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107TERRIFIC EXPLOSION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 23 May 1910, Page 5
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