A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
800 PEOPLE KILLED.-1000 WOUNDED. Bbusskm, Sept, 7. The Oovitanis Osrtridgs Factory, in Antwerp, exploded, and the most terrible results ensued, the shook being like a volcanic eruption, The petroleum factories adjoining caught fire, the barrels of oil burst, and the whole place was soon a mass of roaring flames. Toe scene was one of indescribable horror, the agonies through which the hundrede of victims passed adding the most sickening details to the calamity. Over three hundred, the majority of whom were factory girls, were killed, and about a thousand wounded, large numbers ot whom cannot possibly live long. Is is at present, though, impossible to fairly estimate the lose of lite,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 349, 10 September 1889, Page 2
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114A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 349, 10 September 1889, Page 2
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