HEAVY EXPLOSION
IN AMERICAN DYNAMITE PLANT. NO CASUALTIES REPORTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 20. A message from New York says that there was a great explosion today in the dynamite factory of the Hercules Powder Company at New Jersey. The country for miles around felt the shock, but according to Reuter there were no casualties. Part of the same factory was wrecked in a violent explosion last September, when 50 people were killed and 200 injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1941, Page 5
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77HEAVY EXPLOSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1941, Page 5
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