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Show 211 CASUALTIES IN THAINTWHEGK Explosion of Munitions in Belgium Sets Region on Fire. LONDON", Nov. 2". An explosion of munitions trains at the station of 11a-mont, 11a-mont, In Belgium, Thursday, caused casualties casu-alties '"estimated to be between 1500 and '2000. One hundred and fifty dead already al-ready have been counted, according to a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam. The Injured are being taken to Budel, Holland. Tfic trains were standing at the station sta-tion at TIamont when tho explosion occurred, oc-curred, a nd the entire rep: Ion was soon a sea of tire. Neighboring houses collapsed, col-lapsed, burying their occupants. Three German ambnlaive trains caught fire and one was destroyed, eighteen of the occupants occu-pants being burned to death. Most of the victims were rman soldiers sol-diers who had been plundering the trains. A few Dutch soldiers also were killed. I-t anion t is in northeastern Belgium, directlv east of Antwerp, and Is a customs cus-toms station on the Dutch-Belgian border. bor-der. The main railway line from Antwerp Ant-werp to Duesseldorf runs through the town. |