Volume 10 , Issue 44

1929 - Windows Shattered By Blast In Kansas

Winfield, Kan., Oct. 30, 1929 -- "Wooden barricades replaced windows in the majority of Winfield stores Wednesday night, following the loss of plate glass from a nitroglycerine explosion Wednesday afternoon at a magazine three and one-half miles west of the city.

"Three thousand quarts of the explosive were said to have been in the magazine and in a smaller one which also was destroyed.

"Furniture, dishes and windows in farmhouses near the magazine were broken. many windows in the residential section of Winfield also were broken." -- The Oklahoman, dated Oct. 31, 1929, page 1, headlines read: "Windows Shattered By Blast in Kansas."
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