ALARMING MISHAP
MUNITION TRAINS ON FIRE AMtKIGAN I OWN "BOMBARDED" FOR HOURS. SEVEN PERSONS INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, June 27. Two freight trains loaded with munitions caught fire at Grand Junction, Colorado, and bombarded the town for four and a half hours, injuring seven persons. The panic was heightened when officials sounded a fire siren signal for an air alert and thousands believed the town to be under attack. Shrapnel pierced windows and roofs and damaged houses a mile away.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1943, Page 3
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82ALARMING MISHAP Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1943, Page 3
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