EXPLOSIONS & FIRE
IN INDIANA CHEMICAL PLANT ONE PERSON BELIEVED KILLED. MAIN BUILDING BLASTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, October 5. A message from Terre Haut, Indiana, states that three explosions in the Commercial Solvent Company’s chemical plant shook the city. The fate of 10 persons in the plant was unknown. Six tank cars loaded with alcohol were near a blazing building and could not be removed because of the heat, and further blasts were feared in a 20-acre lot which contained numerous tanks of chemicals. A later message stated that at least one person was trapped and was believed to have been killed, and nine others escaped. An explosion blasted the company’s main building. Officials expressed the opinion that the explosion was accidental.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1940, Page 5
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