Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-13 | Page 3 | 20 Reported Killed in Budapest Factory Fire

J Pf Reported por Killed in Budapest clap st Factory Fire tn BUDAPEST Hungary Aug 13 AP APr It AP-It H lt is reported that twenty persons were killed In the explosion yesterday esterday on island a short distance from Budapest in in the Weiss Weiss ammunition n fac- fac tory ory It has not been Impossible however to report the re ort owing ow owr ing ng to the large area covered by the he factory and the intense heat from rom the burning buildings The firemen early today had succeeded in localizing the Uie fire The l Weiss Weiss works is the only munitions factory permitted in Hungary und under l' l the Trianon treaty It t is under control of the lied military commission It Is estimated that about thirty tons tong ons of powder exploded The concussion concussion con- con was oo GO great that windows w were we're re broken In Budapest eighteen miles away Some houses In the vicinity of the munitions munitions- fa factory tory were unroofed It is reported I that hundreds of persons over a wide area were Injured by flying tiles and fallin falling chimneys I