Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-04-06 | Page 3 | Depot Blast Claims Eight as Victims

I I I r. r Depot Blast Biasi Claims Claim's 1 i Eight as Victims HASTINGS Neb April 6 lB- lB An estimated hundred thousand pounds of high explosives depth explosives depth charges and mines went mines went up in a terrific blast at the Hastings naval naval ammunition depot Thursday that shook the entire countryside for miles around and claimed eight civilian depot as victims three three killed outright and five missing presumed to be dead ead Three workers who were in m a heavily reinforced concrete cooling shed that contained the high explosives explosives ex ex- plosives survived b but t are in a a. critical critical critical crit crit- ical condition