TEN DEATHS
EXPLOSIONS IN POWDER FACTORIES IN THREE AMERICAN AREAS. NUMBER OF PEOPLE INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 12. Five persons were killed and 15 injured by an explosion at a Woodbridge (New ■ Jersey) factory manufacturing detonators for the railways, but which is reported without confirmation to be maktorpedoes for the Government. Three persons were killed by a dynamite explosion at the Burton Powder Plant at Edinburgh, Pennsylvania. These two explosions, and also one at the Trojan Powder Company's factory at Alleton, Pennsylvania, in which two persons are reported to have been killed, occurred between eight and nine o'clock this morning. All shook the surrounding, countryside.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 6
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