Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-09-08 | Page 3 | Explosion Costly to Hun Property

EXPLOSION COSTLY I ITO TO HUN PROPERTY Loss of Marks Sustained as Ammunition Dump Blows Up By Associated Press Pres COBLENZ Sept pt 8 Property f Property valued valued valued val val- at approximately marks sold recently by the Americans to the Germans was wa destroyed Satur- Satur which were abandoned by dumps near Among the material destroyed was waa ammunition worth marks marka which was sold Friday to a German company for commercial purposes Fire toll followed owed the first explosion and destroyed about fifty buildings scattered about a forty-acre forty tract I used for years by the Germans and I Ithen j then by the Americans for tor storing I shells Thousands of large shells and millions of rounds of small arm ammunition ammunition ammunition am am- which were by bythe bythe bythe the German army were exploded Six German girls employed in a dump were rendered unconscious by bythe bythe bythe the first explosion They were rescued rescued res rca cued by American soldiers The work of breaking up the shells was being done by Germans under American su su- su The cause of the explosion explosion explosion sion is unknown